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The agenda has changed again (http://www.321tigers.org/index_e.html) (thanks Jérôme):

25 July Official (Family) day with 50th anniversary celebration and
26 July Open House for everybody.

Jaap

The website is on-line now, see: http://meeting2008.ba702-avord.fr

The dedicated spotters page is still under construction though.

Jaap

Registration for the spottersday at "Sinaasappel" (according to Babelfish) is closed.

They had to close early because of the massive interest.

Jaap

The display dates for the sole flying Noratlas are published on: http://ndp2004.free.fr/static.php?op=Programme2008.html&npds=1 The current status is: - 17 et 18 Mai : ORANGE - Meeting National de l'Air - Exposition statique et présentation en vol - à confirmer - 24 et 25 Mai :TOULOUSE / FRANCAZAL -...

Confirmed on 26 July ( http://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123088934 ): Open House volunteers The 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs office is looking for English-German, English-French and English-Dutch speaking volunteers to assist at an open house information booth for three hours shift...

Display dates for the repainted Estonian Jets have been published on the French part of the BJT website.

http://www.breitling-jet-team.com/apache_fr/agenda/

Jaap

We received news from the Valley Aviation Society: We are holding our Charity Photocall at RAF Valley on Thursday 14th August 2008. Will be celebrating 70 years since 1st Spitfire flew with 19 Sqn. Only 750 tickets available through our website from 2nd April http://www.valleyaviationsociety.net Not...

Some Leeuwarden pics from 15 December 1980 on the delivery flight to Turkey







Jaap

Once again in 2008, a “Stinger” will be the official F-16 display pilot for the Belgian Air Component. Major aviator Michaël « Mickey » Artiges has extended his tour for a third (and final?) year. His program for the coming air shows season will be as follows: http://www.1squadron.be/news/news.php?...

Great shots, Super!! PS: but where is the sound file :?: I surely miss it :!: Best regards, Walter [Off topic mode on] Just uploaded a 12 min. footage last weekend, Klick here. [Off topic mode off] Or even better, see/hear them flying this show season with the: Starfighters Demo Team Jaap

frank kramer wrote:For the record, whatever happened to the REAL russian carrier? Anyone?

Actually there are two real ex Soviet carriers in China:
The Kiev is also an amusement park and the (never finished) Varyag is now being finished as a genuine Chinese a/c carrier.

Jaap

Around Shanghai there is a Military museum located some 40km west where they display a russion carrier look-alike with all kinds of military jets on the flight deck. You can see it at Google Earth at 36 06 18 18N 121 00 51 12E Greetings Little (important) typo: It's at 31 06'N. It was build in situ...

For the third time the Musée de l'Air organizes a "Rassemblement aérien de femmes pilotes", see http://www.mae.org/index.php?id=800&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=39&tx_ttnews[backPid]=21&cHash=cf33d234a5] Again also the military will participate. In 2006 a Mirage 2000N, 2000-5F, CN235 and AlphaJet showed up. J...

Again, on 5 and 6 April the MLM will open its depots for public viewing during the annual National Museum Weekend. Entrance to the depots is obtained by bus shuttle from the museum that starts at 12.00hrs. See also here . A photo report on last years tour can be found at http://www.scramble.nl/forum...

And another one down the drain... The Tag der Offenen Tür seems to be downgraded to Familyday i.e. only, see flugzeugforum Ich hatte mich heute beim JaBoG 32 erkundigt, ob sie denn schon wissen, welche Aktivitäten denn geplant sind. Da wurde mir mitgeteilt, daß es aufgrund widriger Umstande in der L...