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Flying Legends Duxford 2014
What a blast! Standing at any of the runway ends during the Duxford air shows is a stunning experience. Either you get to see the aircraft turning in onto the…
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A-7 Corsair II Retirement
With the retirement of the LTV A-7 Corsair II the sky has lost once again another charismatic jetfighter from the 1960s/70s era. The last Air Force to operate this subsonic…
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RIAT Fairford 2014
July is usually a busy airshow month in the UK. Many of the big airshow take place in that time, and 2014 once again saw the two big events of…
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Waddington Airshow
RAF Waddington has been the regular host of the Royal Air Force’s premier airshow for many years. By doing so it attracts many visitors from abroad and is the main…
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Farnborough Airshow
The bi-annual Farnborough Airshow ranks very highly amongst the three big European aeronautical trade fairs. Some even argue that it is the biggest one due to the strong presence of…
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Meiringen – WK 2014
The Swiss Air Force still operates two jet types in their fleet, the F-18 Hornet and the F-5E Tiger. During the annual WK (Wiederholungskurs – repetition course) Squadrons operating these…
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ILA Berlin 2014
The ILA (Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung) is Germany’s major aerospace exhibition and ranks high amongst the other two European trade fairs in Le Bourget and Farnborough. Nevertheless the event at…
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Lightning(s) strike Chino – Planes of Fame Airshow 2013
The “Planes of Fame” annual airshow at Chino can surely be rated as one of America’s premiere warbird airshows. This is owned to the great collection of flyable warbirds of…
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Winter Planespotting in Hokkaido
Hokkaido, Japan’s Northern island, is a special experience and cannot really be compared with the rest of Japan. Vast landscapes and scenic mountain ranges prevail instead of megacities and densly…
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The Russian Air Force close up
The 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force (Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Rossii – ВВС России) in August 2012 was celebrated with a huge airshow at Moscow Zhukovsky. Loads of aircraft from…
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SIAF 2013
With the 1.Sqn and their MiG-29s the Slovak International Air Display (SIAF) at their home base Sliac seeing those amazing Fulcrum smoketrails in the sky is always a save bet.…
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Luftwaffe F-4F Phantom II Pharewell
The sky was crying tears for the Phantom Pharewell event at Wittmund airbase. With initially nearly winter weather the last week-end in June was the date for the officially last…
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