... is... - and tends to bring in humidity, snow and clouds over from the Japanese Sea. This bad weather mix then cannot cross the mountains, and then tends to stay around the Western coast. And the coastlin ...
... a week off additional night flying practice. Take-offs happened already early in the morning at 8am when the sun got barely over the mountains and shed its first rays into the valley.
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... was a more than welcome replacement. The former display pilots "Buker" and "Mat" showed of the two MiG-29s in close formation and with the distinctive black smoke trails in front the Tatra mountains.
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Alpine Base Meiringen offers a gorgeous setting The airfield is nestled in a small valley in central Switzerland in the canton of Bern. Surrounded by mountains that partly rise up vertically for several ...
... made their way to this small spa village, which is also a gate of the Tatra Mountains range. The Polish presence for example was quite strong with two CASA 295 transport aircraft in the static display ...
... its first post-restoration flight only the day before arriving at Classic Fighters. It arrived during darkness with its remarkable Griffon-sound reverberating off the nearby mountains. During the next ...
... a short one hour hop from Hong Kong the tropical island in the Taiwan Street is easily reached. However getting around the country is a bit more cumbersome due to high mountains that form the central par ...
... . The kilometre-long traffic jams leading back towards the city made it easy to guess that many people spent that beautiful day North of the city in the mountains enjoying the Autumn colours and some fres ...
... t all around and the chain of the Kagoshima mountains lay in the distant haze. And the navigation 'promised' an arrival at the Navy base around 4 pm.
At this time of the day usually all of the aircraft ...
... e by this vulcano!!
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The hostel at Kirishima was chosen because I wanted to visit the Kirishima mountains the next day, where amongst others pa ...
... ss.
Kirishima was a strange place: there was a huge shrine, a kind of monastery and somehow it did not look really Japanese up there in the mountains. The phone number of the hostel for that night was ...
... y strange place in the mountains. It is smelling everywhere from sulfur. We really have to find out about it via the internet after our trip. The town offers a lot of hotels, but obviously more during t ...
... ood at the Denver airport, I certainly had to order the breakfast Burrito, that filled me up until late in the afternoon… While we were sitting there, the sun came up over the mountains and we hurried a ...
... salem... The drive from Be'er Sheva there was really amazing, first climbing up the mountains to 470m above sea level and then going down to more than -400m to reach the lowest point on earth. The lan ...
... re and were at the spot at the "fighter paradise" Nyutabaru at 07h15. It was colder than the day before that morning, but the sky was even clearer and we could see the mountains in the background. Once again ...
... walking up the mountains quite easy. After training sessions of Tigers and Hornets, which were really impressive using their canons, the opening was performed for the first time by the Cougar Solo Dem ...
... an Italian Canadair CL-415 Waterbomber performed very well in the narrow bay area surrounded by mountains, which is described by a display pilot as the "most demanding display area I know". The crowd ...
... (on wednesday only) the show had officially been cancelled on both planned show days (wednesday and thursday) due to the massive amount of snow in the spectator areas. The weather forecast in the mountains ...
