some old 80's pics of Soesterberg AB.

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Post by evhest »

Pff, Galaxies looked much better in those days, not to mention Starlifters....

I remember a large number of both visisting Soesterberg in 1994 for relief flights to Rwanda. Any pics of those? (Ok, it's the nineties, but hey!)
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Post by P.Terlouw »

maybe not 80-s but close

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Finally the chance to add something to this brilliant topic. In august 1994 quite some heavy lifters visited SSB due to peace keeping operations in Rwanda.

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Some other visitors:
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after a rainy weekend and some scanning it is time to put this topic in front again. Here some more from 1985:

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and three more

Here a 32nd TFS F-15C arriving back at SSB after participating in the 1984 William Tell Meet. Note the USAFE shield on the tail and "The Queens Finest" ribbon above the squadron emblem.

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(Very) Nice pictures Peter! :D
Even a Belgian Herc in old style camo and a Dutch orion still carrying the Valkenburg 'V'. And some great Americans visitors. :shock:

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Post by Wijgert IJlst »

I see some have been cheating with some nice pictures from the (early) '90s aswelll... I doesn't care... brings back sweet memories!

Let's participate and post one of the dozens Italians which came over for a weekendstop (to party in Amsterdam). Here is one of the four AMX which had visit Soesterberg about 14 years ago.

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Kind Regards / Groeten,

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and three more to compensate for the sad news in another topic......

F-16B from Torrejons 401st TFW. This one belongs to the 613th TFS (Yellow)

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Arriving for the Open Dag 1984, a SP-13 Atlantic

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And a F-104G

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what can I say..... One of my favorite aircraft:

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Testflight after a complete overhaul:

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Visiting from Bitburg:

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Daily visitor in those days

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Post by Stephan Lodewijks »

P.Terlouw wrote:what can I say..... One of my favorite aircraft:
Favorite aircraft eh? Well, even in 2008 you still have the opportunity
to see XS452 flying: go to Cape Town and visit Thunder City!! :D :wink:

Incredible photos by the way!

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[quote="P.Terlouw"]Daily visitor in those days

[img]http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o262 ... uw/a91.jpg[/img][/quote]

I used to call them "Onscherpa's, because I failed most of the times to get it sharp on slide, just like this one. It also seems to be a littlebit unsharp... Typical!!

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Post by Coldice »

Hello ,
Does annybody know the date of the ZR RF4C on page 11?
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Post by Jan Hendriksen »

Hello Leo

04-06-87
SOESTERBERG C-23A 84-0458 10MAS USAFE
C-23A 84-0464 10MAS USAFE
F-16B FB-20 10W
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