Gilze-Rijen 11-09-2008

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Gilze-Rijen 11-09-2008

Post by Kees van der Velden »

Yesterday I was lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right moment.

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Post by jimmy van drunen »

That's the right spot! :lol:
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Post by Redskin301 »

Absolutely Beautiful shots Kees :D
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Post by topgun1984 »

THUMBS UP KEES... :).... beautifull shots :D...

I think the Pilot liked it too (seen in PIC nr 4)
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Post by Iwan Bogels »

Great shots Kees !

Which position where you at, when you took these ? I think the pilot might wat to have these too.... Thumbs up from him.

Well done,
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Post by Redskin301 »

I think this is the Runway 02 side Iwan, maybe Kees can confirm this :?:
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Post by Maarten »

Great pics, Really like number 3,
And indeed you were at the right moment and place 8)
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Post by Kees van der Velden »

Thanks for your kind comments. The shots were taken on the southside of the airfield, perhaps 300 meters west of the threshold of the south-north runway Iwan. You're just opposite the buildings of the KLu Historic Flight. Between those buildings and the fence there are two small hills. The choppers sometimes use these hills to practice. They land on the hill, let the machine slide backwards and forwards, turn, take off again, etc.
Now, before everybody gets enthousiastic and jumps in his or her car, I have to tell you that I was just lucky because practicing on these tiny Gilze-Rijen mountains is very infrequent.
Yesterday I happened to be of work, the weather was good and I was eating my sandwiches at the spottersplace at the Langenbergseweg. There were three Apaches and two German Bölkows preparing for take off from the Redskin platform. Two AH-64's and the Germans went high from the middle of the field and disappeared in a south-easterly direction but the third Apache (Q-23) took off for the south and started flying north-south circuits over the field. I decided to take my chance and drove to the southside. It did about six circuits which were no good for me because it was too far away with wrong lighting on top of that, but the seventh time it headed straight for yours truly and started it's "I love these hills" routine. Pure luck on my part! It's the first time I had the pleasure of shooting this and I live a ten minutes drive from the field!
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Post by Kees van der Velden »

Just to give you an idea of things. The first shot (340mm) shows Q-23 leaving the Redskin platform. Taken from the Langenbergseweg it's not a shot to be overly enthousiastic about but nevertheless one of the most common pictures you'll get home with if you ventured a day out to Gilze-Rijen!
The second one (135mm) shows the machine climbing one of the hills and in the background to the left you can just see the main hangar of the Historic flight.

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Post by mart »

I like the thumbs up of the backseater!
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Post by John Rambo »

Picture 4 is very nice indeed. Well done.
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Post by sfeyenoord1 »

Very nice shots! Just like the gunner: :thumb:
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Post by Stafhunter »

Great shots Kees :clap:

number 5 flow it backwards? he has his backlights on piep piep piep ( just kidding :lol: )
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Post by Eddie »

sfeyenoord1 wrote:Very nice shots! Just like the gunner: :thumb:
frontseat is gunner 8)
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Post by GoldenEagle »

Nice pics Kees!
I like number 3. :D
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