Swiss Tigers are facing their extinction! 110 have originally been ordered by the Swiss Air Force. Nowadays their number is down to only 27. Apart from the F/A-18 Hornets, the F-5s are the Swiss Air Forces ...
... but also some splendid red, yellow or orange autumn colors, do not miss the Yabakei „place of scenic beauty“ South of Nakatsu.
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... lider was a new ventures and high on my wish list for quite a while. Taking off from the scenic location of the Fliegerclub Eichstätt / EDPE in the heart of Bavaria and close to the Altmühltal Nature Park ...
... WWI and WWII aviation, with New Zealand’s warbird owners and pilots gathering in the scenic Marlborough county to display their aircraft in front of the gorgeous scenery of vineyards and the extensive ...
Hokkaido, Japan's Northern island, is a special experience and cannot really be compared with the rest of Japan. Vast landscapes and scenic mountain ranges prevail instead of megacities and densly populate ...
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To finish with some scenic sights the drive to Mt. Aso was a must for a sightseeing trip, as this volcano erupted for the first time since 22 years, spitting huge ash clouds up to 800m in the air ...
... The scenery around the airbase is thus very scenic and quite unique, as are the caverns, those famous caves that can host a full two Squadrons of aircraft. Their inside is classified as top secret, but ...
... l or the scenic "Sun Moon Lake". But if you plan to visit airfields on both sides of the mountains, it is another story. And this had to be done, as the RF-5E Tigereye and the S-2T Turbo Tracker, based ...
... be found in many guide books. But the scenery became most famous by the James Bond movie "You only live twice". In this movie classic "007" is flying above the very scenic landscape and one of the crater ...
... arly wake-up call at 0430h the next morning…
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The report about the airshow at Tsuiki can be found here on a separate page.
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... another eight jets leaving around midday, and then we left to Matsushima Bay.
Matsushima Bay is quoted as the third most scenic spot in Japan, and became famous by many poems. During the whole year ...
... ar and made our way to Nyuta. The drive along the Route 10 is really scenic along the shores of the Pacific and we made many stops. Though the look on the photos pretends warm temperatures it was freezi ...
... . The drive was once again very scenic and we saw a lot of mountains that were still covered by darkness the night before.
Unfortunately the forecast was right and it was raining, which continued near ...
... of tourists, that come to this scenic place during the main summer season.
And this trip once again prooved that Europe is a great place to be, and with a lot of Air Forces to discover. On to the next o ...
The big trip this year was a tour to the US, framed by the airshows at Holloman and Nellis, and two weeks time for photography at airports and scenic locations along the route.
Where? USA South-West ...
... f it wouldn't have been dark that part would also have been very scenic, but in the night we could unfortunately only get a small idea of the deep valleys through which we were driving. Close to Nyutab ...
Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton is a large multi-role air station located in the scenic Somerset. It is home to Royal Navy (RN) Sea Harrier F/A2s, RN Lynx Helicopters and RN Commando Helicopter ...
... bridge for the southern island, Kyhusu. The drive was one of the few during daylight for us and we enjoyed the scenic landscape with a lot of hills and Bamboo forests. Fukuoka, the main city on Kyushu ...
And I did it again... Somehow I have to go at least once a year to Switzerland for one of their either very well or very scenic airshows. This time I went to the very south of Switzerland, only some ...