... the country. And this was clearly the case during the airshow day.
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... ce to spot some autumn Colors.
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Further South and reached from Gifu with another long, but easy rive another interesting airbase not to be missed was Akeno, home of several JG ...
... great, as this type gets quite rare these days in Japan. JGSDF helicopters present were a UH-1 and OH-1, and from Kanoya the JMSDF provided a P-3C (or P-3CJ as it was applied on the sign) Orion.
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... aircraft on „the other side of the fence“ were 3 helicopters of the the JGSDF (UH-60, AH-64D, OH-1), the (X)C-2, T-400, the still omni-present RF-4E Phantom II and a U-125 Flightchecker as well as the ...
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The Saturday before the actual showday hosted kind of a families day with a limited number of displays by the local acts - the important ones: air-gro ...
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The actual flying program started with a SAR demo of U-125 and UH-60, followed by a JGSDF AH-64D Apache, which was very high on my wish list. Unfortunately the sun stayed behi ...
... ther was still very good and many of locals were staying around, I also decided to do so in the hope of some nice arriving aircraft. JGSDF did, but approached the airfield directly and were not photograph ...
... to the usual fleet of JSADF, JMSDF and JGSDF aircraft and helicopters.
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But already before jet sound could b ...
... an UH-60J. The sun was still out and finally provided some sunny shots of the darkblue helicopter, that I have been after for quite a long time now. The same goes for the JGSDF AH-1S Cobra, which followed ...
... to stop. This small JGSDF field is located in a housing area at Sendai and thus very hard to find. During our 30min stay in the late afternoon we saw only one OH-6 circling around, but coming in too high fo ...
... the local T-4s and P-3s as well as some of the visitors for the airshow on Sunday.
other local military traffic and air show arrivals (YS-11, C-1, JGSDF CH-47, T-4)
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... ions to photograph the colourful camouflaged helicopters of the JGSDF. After the happenings the day before that was not very beneficial for our spirit, but nevertheless we took some photos as the possi ...
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