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Either AF have joined IAG or Mr B overdid the pre-flight Shampoo!

Few bits and pieces for the visit of Leon Panetta (and less so for Mitt Romney last week - maybe next time he´ll visit with some VC-25s, VH-60s ....) OK the "Knee-Cap" is 50125 whilst the great man arrived in C-17A 77184 (437AW) In attendance is C-37 90404 and a visitor last night should have been 3...

On the departure board (to BUD?) as "ZIK71"

09001 is sitting at LLBG right now and, it has black engine intake covers! Otherwise, it is all white. Has a small stars and stripes by the serial.

One less in the flying display (perhaps also affecing the planned fly-by of various types at Fairford): Noticias de Agencia Airbus cancela los vuelos de exhibición del A400M en Farnborough por problemas en un motor MADRID, 5 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) - Airbus Military ha decidido cancelar los vuelos de ex...

I don´t normally do this sort of thing ....

QR072/21jun A7-BAC
QR070/22jun A7-BAA
QR072/23jun A7-BBB

Here / expected shortly for the visit of President Putin are: RA78816 & 78842 IL-76MD (latter showing traces of CCCP and "Aeroflot" under the paint) RA82075 AN-124 Volga Dnepr RA85629 TU-154 (r/t RSD031) RA86559 IL-62M (RSD011) RA96016 IL-96 (RSD001) I do miss President Clinton´s (regular) visits wi...

Maybe I missed something, but, with all you Dutch chappies in the Eurozone, why don´t you get together with your neighbours and form some kind of United States of Europe (U.S. of E.), then the Greeks could pay for the U.S.of E. aircraft, and naturally, default. The manufacturers wouldn´t mind, it´s ...

One of the revetments appeared to have lost a number of A-4s recently, and indeed, the 399 was not noted by Mr Sjoerd on his honeymoon (maybe his eyes were elsewhere!) perhaps some 4Aviationers could confirm the sutuation...

The 22 IDFAF A-36 Bonanzas are serial/confirmed c/n: 301/3588, 304/3589, 309/3591, 311, 313/3595, 318/3596, 320/N14HE/3399, 324/3597, 328, 330/N56MJ/3525, 333/3629, 335, 338, 340, 346, 353/3609, 355, 360/3612, 363, 369, 389, 399 (some joker in the serial allocation office) The missing cons are in or...

On display for Israel Independence Day 26th April were the following 707 (still white cols) - 250 A-4N - 399 102 sqn F-16A - 275 115 sqn F-16D - 664 F-16I - 444 253 sqn F-16D - 045 109 sqn F-15C - 696 133 sqn AH-1 - "115" correct id unknown (The real 115 is in Hatzerim Museum) AH-64A - 941 190 sqn U...

Wednesday afternoon 25th April 15.00 - 17.00 Press preview Tel Nof, invitation only Thursday 26th April, Ramat David, Haifa Technical School, Tel Nof and Ovda airbases will be open to the public. Foreign photographers need to be escorted. Also, small static and flying display at Hatzerim Air Force M...

Lucky there were no Thai Grippens there to complete the set!

Interesting visitor at the moment is Angolan Air Force ERJ135 T-501. Makes a change from their 707s ....

Around 12.00 on Friday 16th there were 5 outside; from the right in your "photo" is the 1st USAF example, the next two (not necessarily in order) are Aussi 1 (t/o 13.15 for test flight) and ZZ331 (unmarked), further left was Saudi 2401 fully painted and probably the first UAE en-primeur.