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Ahm, very nice photo

Way back in 2010, shortly before the original lease contract of the Italian Air Force F-16A/B ADF was to expire, I was able to visit 18 Gruppo at Trapani which was the last of the 3 original F-16A/B ADF squadrons at the time. At that point, it had started receiving the other F-16s from Cervia (23 Gr...

Nice pictures. What did they do to number 677? What's the text at 666 referring to? Some of those CFTs look awful, I'm not sure if these are vent ports or anything else that would explain the state that they're in. The actual F-16Ds themselves all looked very clean, it's really the CFTs that make t...

Awesome! And from that same post we learned that 339 is disbanding / disbanded so 338 is now the only F-4 "super squadron" left in the Hellenic Air Force. Can't believe we already lost the British, Spanish and German Phantoms in Europe with both the Greek and Turkish ones really in the final stage o...

And here is a sampling of the RNZAF movements of the same day. It was a very active day, unusually so actually. I think I counted at least 8 different T-6C serials flying, if not more given that they were conducting student training flights while the Black Falcons were also going out for a training ...

In September 2017, 145 Squadron of the Singapore Air Force conducted a training deployment to Ohakea RNZAF with six F-16D Block 52+ vipers. Based at Changi, 145 SQ "Hornet" is unique in that the squadron exclusively operates the two-seat F-16D-52+ rather than a mixture of C/D aircraft. The aircraft ...

I would rate the chances of a Syrian SA-5 (S-200) successfully hitting a modern IDF fighter (e.g. F-16I or F-15I) as extremely low. The SA-5 is an aging system that was designed as a long range SAM system against enemy bombers (e.g. B-52s), can be defeated with high-G turning manoeuvres and is susce...

They're all very nice shots but somehow I really like 24!

There are plenty of locations around the base (to the north in the fields and to the south on the beach ) where you can sit and watch (and take photos) without any trouble, as long as there are no ground facilities visible from your spot. Remember, in Greece you are not allowed to take pictures of ...

Really nice moody pics!!!

Just convert into a JPEG without too much compression (or any if you can help it) and upload it somewhere like postimage.org and post a direct link so that we can download it. (I'm not sure if postimage.org allows/supports RAW files and those of us on older LR versions may not be able to read that R...

Ik lees veel goede dingen hierover, volgens sommige vergelijken. komt de Fuji op (bijna) alle vlaken er beter uit dan bv. de Canon 7D mrk2+ 100-400 mark 2 Ik heb inderdaad hetzelfde gelezen. Ik was van de week weer een paar dagen onderweg met twee 1D bodies met een 70-200mm f/2.8L II en een 100-400...

Aan goede bekende van mij, die overigens geen luchtvaart doet maar veel studio werk, is in het process om over te stappen van Canon (o.a. 1D4, 5D3 en 7D2) naar ... jawel een Fuji XT-2. Hij had al eerder een paar 3/4, mirror-less camera's gehad voor erbij maar deze, deze is anders zei hij. Die andere...

According to Steve Davies' excellent "Red Eagles", one of the former Indonesian MiG-21s ("YF-110B"s) operated by the 4477th TES went to the SAC museum. So it could very well be that the "60" MiG-21 you photographed was in fact one of MiG-21s operated by the USAF under CONSTANT PEG, a top-secret prog...

Awesome! I miss Vancouver, which a great city to visit.