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JASDF Gifu Airshow 2017 ...

Posted in 2017

... 2017 thus saw this wing’s home airfield centenary and was this was the main topic for the 2017 Gifu airshow. In previous years the ADTW always came up for the airshow with very nice special schemes on ...

Tsuiki Airshow 2017 ...

Posted in 2017

... Japan When? November 2017 airshows/17_tsuiki/so3 JASDF Mitsubishi F-2 Squadrons With the swapping of Squadrons in recent years the JASDF obviously pursued the goal to reduce the mix of aircraft types ...

Oshkosh EAA Airventure 2017 ...

Posted in 2017

The EAA Airventure 2017 was announced to be the bomber year! And it really became bombastic. 590.000 people attended the event in Oshkosh, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid and also ...

Meiringen WK 2017 ...

Posted in Air Forces

... t Squadrons, and is also home to the militia Squadron 8 "Destructors" ("Vandalos"), flying the F-5E Tiger II. Where? Meiringen, Switzerland When? March 2017 onbase/17_meiringen/so1 Cavern Operat ...

Wings over Houston Airshow

Posted in 2017

Wings over Houston 2017 was an awesome airshow! Plenty of warbirds, a Messerschmitt Me 262, jets from the Vietnam era, amongst them the venerable F-4D Phantom II, made up for a great program. This great ...

Bell P-63 P-39 Cobra Flight

Posted in Air-Air

EAA Airventure at Oshkosh in 2017 saw a rare gathering of Bell Aircraft Cobras. Three P-63 Kingcobras and a P-39 Airacobra attended the ‘World’s greatest Aviation Celebration’, amongst them all Cobras ...

Fliegerschiessen at Axalp Shooting Range

Posted in 2017

... range provides a unique training environment for Swiss Air Force pilots to exercise their air-ground gunnery skills. Weather conditions for the 2017 edition of this famous spectacle were just right with ...

Warbirds over the Beach

Posted in 2017

... the US Atlantic shoreline. airshows/17_wob/so3 Where? Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA When? 19-21/05/2017 The second half of May is a good time to travel to Virginia Beach. Strawberries can be bought ...

Shuttleworth - Fly Navy!

Posted in 2017

... it focuses on vintage aircraft, and this time it did with a special focus on the aircraft of the Naval Air Arm. This second edition of “Fly Navy” in 2017 has put a second chapter to a young, but already ...

LTG61 Penzing Farewell

Posted in 2017

... present the different tasks of the Bundeswehr to the public. This also includes the Luftwaffe. After last year’s major location Neuburg in 2017 once again Southern Germany did host one of the major Luftwaffe ...

Manching WTD61

Posted in 2015

... ost welcomed possibility, to see solo demonstrations of the Luftwaffe aircraft. Thanks to all WTD61 people involved in setting up this event. I am looking forward to 2017, which will see the 60th anniversary ...

Classic Fighters Omaka

Posted in 2015

... light were a great chance to catch a final view of them until latest the next edition of “Classic Fighters” on the Easter week-end 2017. Save the date! airshows/15_omaka/end ...