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Yak-3 D-FJAK - A Red Star over Germany ...

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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 ...

Pilsen Air Show

Posted in 2018

... 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, ...

Otto Smik's Spitfire TE184

Posted in Air-Air

... 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, ...

Tornado GR.4 FINale at RAF Marham

Posted in Air Forces

... both. airshows/19_Marham/final2,width=396,height=300,gap_h=10,gap_v=10 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 ...

Duxford Flying Legends 2018

Posted in 2018

... 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. airshows/18_duxford/Buchons2/,width=396,height=300,gap_h=10,gap_v=10 ...

Slovak International Air Fest - SIAF 2018

Posted in 2018

... 10 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 ...

Warbirds over the Beach

Posted in 2017

... 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. ...

LTG61 Penzing Farewell

Posted in 2017

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 ...

Neuburg Open House

Posted in 2016

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 ...

Cessna O-1E "Bird Dog" Vietnam Observer

Posted in Air-Air

... and a joy to fly! Where? Hahnweide, Germany When? September 2016 air2air/16_birddog/1 Cessna O-1 Bird Dog Cessna delivered its Model 305 to the US Army in December of 1950. It was a successor ...

High Performance Glider - DG-800S

Posted in Air-Air

... ermany When? October 2016 air2air/16_dg800/1 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  ...

Airbus Manching Family Day

Posted in 2016

... 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“. ...

Luftwaffe Bücker Bü133 Jungmeister

Posted in Air-Air

... 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 air2air/15_bu133/2 Originating f ...

Bücker Bü131 / Tatra T-131 Jungmann OE-APY

Posted in Air-Air

... er flying pleasure. Where? above Bavaria, Germany When? Autumn 2015 air2air/15_t131/1 The aircraft itself is a design of the 1930s, but should by far not being counted belonging on the scrap he ...

SIAF 2015

Posted in 2015

... 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 ...

La Ferté-Alais

Posted in 2015

... 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, ...

Manching WTD61

Posted in 2015

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 ...

Classic Fighters Omaka

Posted in 2015

... yet. This year the great WWII aerial mock combat acts, which are one of the trademarks of the Classic Fighters air show, thus had to go on without the German enemy being chased by Allied Mustangs, Spitfires ...

G7 Summit

Posted in Air Forces

... from all over the world. For the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps, Munich airport (MUC) was the main hub to receive loads of interesting aircraft. Where? Munich, Germany When? 7-8/06/2015 ...

Shuttleworth Pageant Airshow

Posted in 2014

... ot leave the UK for New Zealand, but will stay in Britain for the future with a newly founded The WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust (WAHT) "providing an enduring flying collection of World War I Allied and Ge ...

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Dark Falcon - Belgian F-16 Demo Team

10.000ft above Belgium the howling sound of the Lockheed Martin’s F-16AM Fighting Falcon F100 jet engine could clearly be heard. No wonder, as the Demo Pilot for the Belgian Air Force, Sr. Cpt Darte, callsign „Vador“, knows how to place his jet only meters behind… Read More
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Pilsen Air Show

This airshow was held to celebrate 100 years of aviation in Pilsen / Plzeň. Even though this fourth most populous city in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic, is undeniably better known for the type of blond lager beer to which the city gave its name, it also… Read More
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Wings over Houston 2018

Wings over Houston 2018 was headlined by the US Navy Blue Angels display team. With a big concentration of Commemorative Air Force (CAF) warbirds all around the oil-rich state of Texas the line-up of WW II airplanes was also strong. The most impressive airshow act… Read More
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Otto Smik's Spitfire TE184

Nine Balkenkreuze and three silhouettes of the Fieseler Fi 103, aka „Vergeltungswaffe 1 (V1)“ as kill markings depict this Spitfire Mk.XVI as the personal plane of Otto Smik. Smik was one of the most successfully Czechoslovakian pilots in service of the RAF during WW II.… Read More
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