During the summer 2003 I have had the possibility to make a photo flight with the then only flying Jak-3 in Germany. The Jak-3 with the registration D-FJAK is based in Freiburg, a city in the southwest ...
... the USA, Italy, Greece and Germany:
Germany: Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71 "Richthofen" from Wittmund (6 Eurofighters)
Greece: 335 Mira from Araxos (4 F-16s)
Italy: 32° Stormo from Amendo ...
2019 saw the 19th edition of the Oldtimer Fliegertreffen Hahnweide. You may also call it a fly-in, a pilot meeting or a warbird airshow, and with around 400 participating aircraft it is arguably Germany’s ...
... Greece and Turkey as well as a German and a RAF Eurofighter Typhoon as well as the Austrian Saab105Oe.
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It's about the weather...
Wherea ...
... directly adjacent to the airfield. During WW II Pilsen (Plzen), Czechoslovakia was just as many other airfields occupied by the German Luftwaffe. Dobrzan was a field airstrip until the end of the war, ...
... Czechoslovakian pilots in service of the RAF during WW II. He crashed and died on 28 November 1944 near Zwolle after been hit by German AA fire. Smik’s aircraft has been re-created by the Spitfire’s owner, ...
... both.
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It was already 4pm by then, and I had to get my flight back to Germany. So I did miss the Tornados passing by the photographers ...
... those aircraft fly in close formation! Of course the German planes were ‘chased’ by Spitfires of different marks that in the course of the battle also achieved an aerial victory over their enemies.
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Spanish Hornet and German Tornado
In your author’s opinion this fine piece of flying was just excelled by the Spanish F/A-18 / EF-18MHornet demo. To see how the display pilot presented the Hornet ...
... continues further, it is really worth to “travel to Virginia Beach, alongside the bright sunshine of the Atlantic shoreline, where German submarines once hunted merchant ships in the Gulfstream waters. ...
The „Tag der Bundeswehr“ became a regular event to promote the German Armed Forces. Held on a Saturday usually around the second week-end in June several locations all around Germany open their doors to ...
The TaktLwG74 celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2016. At the same time the German Luftwaffe is looking back at its foundation 60 years ago in 1956. Both events were a good reason to celebrate one event ...
... and a joy to fly!
Where? Hahnweide, Germany When? September 2016
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Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
Cessna delivered its Model 305 to the US Army in December of 1950. It was a successor ...
... ermany When? October 2016
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DG-800 glider series
This DG-800S is the version of the DG-Flugzeugbau (http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/) DG-800 family aimed at competition flying. Compared ...
... current and past products of the company was also presented.
Where? Manching, Bavaria, Germany When?18/06/2016
The flying display in the afternoon literally took off with the Airbus A400M „Grizzly“. ...
... G+07” biplane was painted in a scheme inspired by the one adorning Germany’s first-ever Luftwaffe’s aerobatic squadron.
Where? above Saxony, Germany When? October 2015
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... er flying pleasure.
Where? above Bavaria, Germany When? Autumn 2015
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The aircraft itself is a design of the 1930s, but should by far not being counted belonging on the scrap he ...
... AF (the same reason why the LanceR cancelled – talk about changing two F-15s on the ground against one MiG-21 in the air…). A rare appearance was also the Tiger helicopter of the German Army, which look ...
... aircraft used in WWII traditionally play a big part in the flying program as well. This era is split up and started this year with the ‘Germans’, flying the Junkers Ju 52, the Storch and a fake Messerschmitt, ...
Open days of the Luftwaffe in Germany do happen regularly, but events with a flying display are few and far between. To mark the 60th anniversary of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) and 25 years of ...
