F/A-18 Hornets & Tigers at Emmen

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F/A-18 Hornets & Tigers at Emmen

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A little bit late, but I think at this cold winter days now a little bit summer feeling is a good variety. In August I could enjoy a nice day trip to Emmen in the heart of Switzerland. All Swiss F/A-18 fighter squadrons were based there for some weeks due to the closed bases Payerne and Meiringen. So a lot of traffic, perfect summer weather and a nice time with some friends.

As we arrived the Hornets last chance checks were in progress
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Unfortunately the first wave took off the wrong direction
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But the Tigers did it right
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Second Hornet wave in the morning also
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Local based PC-6 Porter. Two of them were flying all the day for paratroopers
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Returning of the Jets
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In the afternoon we used an other spot. Rare F-5F doubleseater
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Fightersquadron 17 special bird
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PC-7
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F-5F with Patrouille Suisse Commander Dani Hösli and another PS - Pilot
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All in all a very nice day in the beautiful suisse. Would like to hear your opinion
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Switzerland never bores, nice set.
BTW, what do you mean with "wrong direction of take off"? I like the shot with the vapour trails and the heathaze blurring the background. No serials readable, so what?
Keep 'm coming!

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Nice diversity of excellent shots with most interesting background. Thanks for posting.
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Nice shots, i really like them.

for improvement i think there is something little to improve with your edditing. not sure but i think is to much black or contrast.
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Hans Rolink wrote:Switzerland never bores, nice set.
BTW, what do you mean with "wrong direction of take off"? I like the shot with the vapour trails and the heathaze blurring the background. No serials readable, so what?
Keep 'm coming!
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Thanks, we made the best of the situation. As we arrived, we thought the F/A-18 would start the "other" direction due to the wind. We would take some taxi shots in the moring light, which was amazing at 8am. It was very interesting, that they chanced the runway in use more or less for every movement.

And who cares about the f.. serials? :twisted:
FISHER01 wrote:Nice shots, i really like them. for improvement i think there is something little to improve with your edditing. not sure but i think is to much black or contrast.
Thanks for your feedback. That very helpful, because i edited the photos on my new monitor. So I should do some fine adjustment.

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