The Boeing Stearman must be the world’s mostly known biplane. More than 8500 airplanes were build, and the „Model 75“ has been used to train an uncountable number of military pilots in the late 1930s and ...
... the fuselage, they are only suitable to a limited extent for building up a good steering torque to do so.
But even despite this challenges as the Flying Boat „is difficult to control, we like the challenge ...
... of this McDonnell Douglas-build fighter jet in the Land of the Rising Sun.
JASDF Phantoms - a brief summary
During high times in the 1980s nearly 150 F-4 Phantom IIs were in service with the Japanese ...
... with the Spanish Air Force considered as a Spanish license-build version “CASA 352L” of the German Junkers Ju 52/3m (3m standing for “3 Motoren” – three engines), a German identification plate was discovered. ...
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Fabulous Phantoms at Hyakuri
As expected the famous towers were already quite occupied - mainly by European photographers. Unmistakably the shrine and the land, where these towers are build on, turned ...
... TR.9. New Zealand is home to a good variety of this iconic warbird.
Classic Fighters for the WWII scenario
Omaka’s undisputed star however was "the Focke-Wulf Fw 190". It is the first FlugWerk-build ...
... not find many military airfields around, which offer dedicated parking spots for enthusiasts or even a visitors deck. It is part of an administration building, which also hosts a restaurant and washing ...
The Polikarpov I-16 Rata is a rare bird. Only a dozen of originally more than 8500 produced aircraft exist, including seven that have been re-build for Sir Tim Wallis' Alpine Fighter Collection in the ...
... landing on that afternoon. But the clouds building up in the background over the central island’s mountain range were a clear sign that the atmosphere is rather active at that period of the year and weather- ...
... back to the flying display, the aircraft flying around that ground theatre were the main attraction of the event. There was a Polikarpov Po-2, a Let C-11 – the Czech-build version of the Warsaw Pact trainer ...
... The main difference from the Spitfire Mk.IX has been the US and licence-build Packard Merlin 266 engine. It was optimized to fly at low level, subsequently the Mk.XVI Spitfires also received the LF-designation ...
... to honor the history of RAF this mixed formation of aircraft featured the F-35 Lightning II, a P-51D Mustang, and a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V. Never before was the USAF Heritage Flight seen with a non-US-build ...
... of currently the world’s only airworthy twin-seater of a (re-build) Messerschmitt Me262 „Schwalbe“. And it was a real treat to see this plane flying in formation with other aircraft from the same era. ...
... use that shuttle service. Whereas going uphill the crowd is being distributed throughout the morning up until around midday, one down point are the large queues that build up along the cableway once the ...
... Havilland DH-89 Mosquito, Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane was up as well. Obviously their German counterparts, namely the Junkers Ju-52 and Focke-Wulf FW 190 (this one being a Flugwerk re-build) ...
... anniversary. The Vintage area offers a nice stroll along lines of beautifully restored propeller aircraft, whereas the homebuilds sections always features some rather weird constructions.
airshows/16_oshkosh/uscg ...
The SU-27 Flanker, MiG-21 LanceR and MiG-29 Fulcrum are apart from being three Cold War warriors and rare Russian-build jets three excellent airshow acts that you can hardly argue about. For its 2016 edition ...
... the Jungmeister was based in Switzerland, where Bücker biplanes were also licence-build. That particular airframe was build in 1940 at the Dornier factory at Altenrhein as C/N 28 and saw service in the ...
... were build and used by many airforces worldwide, even still after the end of WWII. Many examples are left today in private hands. They are appreciated by their owners for the ease of maintainability and ...
... already plans a massive expansion into an airport with five parallel runways, and the additional traffic will for sure restrict airshow flying. But though building projects are pushed a lot in the UAE, ...
