... amazing photoflight.
Where? Cuatro-Vientos / Madrid, Spain When? October 2018
Looking at the airplane with its stubby fuselage and that huge nine-cylinder Shvetsov radial engine it already becomes ...
... from the past year(s).
In the meantime look after yourselves, your family, friends and the people around you, see you at the fence when this is over!
There is more and eye-opening information about ...
... on going on to get out of the show with the highest number of orders. Looking for military related activities at Farnborough one had to dig deeper as current and hot topics were not obvious at first sig ...
... ng the sun at the beginning of the flying display, it got better and better during the course of the afternoon.
Mixed Aviation Photography Emotions
So whereas photographers had a frustrated look at th ...
... visibility. Around midday the whole flying was understandably cancelled due to those miserable conditions. As a side aspect there remained more time to have a look at the rather extensive static displa ...
... a stop at a local fish market that I bumped into by coincidence while looking for some refreshments to withstand the hot and humid temperatures that really hit me upon arrival.
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... however is the fact that you are looking into the sun throughout the day. So you should not expect good photos of the flying display, but concentrate on photos on the taxiway in the late afternoon. And, ...
... at Leconfield. Looking at TE184s logbook, it accumulated roughly 300 flying hours until the end of 1950. After that the Spitfire was flying for the Squadron only every now and then, and only for abou ...
... light until the last engine had shut down.
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Looking at smiling and sometimes also sun-burned faces it was clear that proven concept of ...
Travelling to countries operating the MiG-29 is usually a safe bet to see this great looking jet from the Soviet-era in the air. This was also true for the Slovak International Air Fest (SIAF) at Sliac, ...
... capabilities of this indigenous (and F-16 lookalike) fighter jet.
First was a formation of three jets of each of these two Squadrons, that first presented a nice fly-by as a six-ship formation. It was ...
... prepared their tables, chairs and blankets along the fence line. Looking at the progress of their picnic and the already emptied bottles of wine was a clear indication that the major part of the crowd ...
... tail fin.
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P-39 Airacobra
Looking at such a ‘not-so-famous’ combat history it is no wonder that Airacobras and Kingcobras are not in the same spotlight as a Mustang or Spitfire. ...
Tsuiki Airbase on the Southern Japanese island of Kyushu hosts nowadays two Squadrons of the Mitsubishi F-2 jet. 6 Hikotai and 8 Hikotai are half of the JASDF Squadrons operating the indigenous, F-16-look-alike ...
... Look up in the sky, where you will see fighters and bombers of our armed forces patrol the countryside to protect our homeland from the Axis forces”.
airshows/17_wob/so1
The show itself offers that ...
... to larger average airshows the line-up of a dozen of P-51 Mustangs will leave one speechless. And looking for other warbirds just goes like: “You name it… you get it…”
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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 ...
... Twice it presented to ‘tail-sitting’ cobra maneuver and of course the new ‘pixel camouflage’ looked stunning against the blue sky!
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... rshows/16_zeltweg/orlik
airshows/16_zeltweg/aguilla
airshows/16_zeltweg/pc7team
Verdict
Looking at the crowd and the flying program Zeltweg was not only an airshow, it was a big party for crews and ...
