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Great pics of some great planes Stephan. That first Dak looks rather 'modified'. Definitely a country on my 'to-do' list, both for aircraft and nature. By the way, great South African Lightning shots in your other topic!

Bas

The complete absence of hardpoints under the belly makes me believe it's fake, but I'll try to find out more.

Bas

looks like the best TLP of this year, imo

It sure looks good, but it's hard to beat 2008-3 (Turkish F-4's and a huge variety too).

Bas

Sorry (for the 2nd time in two days....)

Anyway, I meant to say that Frank's pics look sharper than mine. He used a Nikkor 300mm 2.8, I use a Nikkor 70-300. FYI, we stood next to each other so I can compare his pics to mine.

Bas

Strakke platen Frank! Die 300mm 2.8 is toch net een tikkie scherper dan mijn 70-300 (of jij hebt een vastere hand...).


Bas

in fact we took off yesterday just before the silence slot for the parade and in fact after the landing we were park at the northen area I think it's the machanical area for the F-16 and also the cross servicing area ! in Fact to explain the serial 314 is for the unit in France : EAC 00.314 of Tour...

Terribly sorry Sowald, thought I was hanging around in 't Praethuys. Short translation then: Nice warbird, small toned down civil reg. Max length for passenger flights 193cm so for me: :evil: Wouldn't have paid the money required anyway, as a flight of 40min costs around € 11.000,-. A flight in a Hu...

Da's nog 'ns een leuke warbird! Gelukkig hebben ze z'n civiele reg (HB-RDF) er lekker klein en toned-down opgezet. Helaas kom ik in ieder geval niet in aanmerking voor 'n vlucht met m'n 196cm want je mag max. 193cm zijn. Overigens moet je ook nog een dikke portemonnee meenemen, want de kosten voor e...

Only the EC725 found it's way back

So that explains why we only saw the EC725 on thursday 11. It flew a local mission in the morning, before the TLP package took of, and it left in the afternoon.

Bas

Hi Lio,

were you there again today (11/9)? We saw a French Alpha Jet while we were still at the eastern end, but unfortunately it backtracked so it stayed too far away to read. We thought to have read 314-TU though and a serial ending in 7....

Kind regards,


Bas

Hi Piet (and others) Thanks for the message, even if it arrived quite a while after I left home.... :wink: It was exactly as the message says though: mission leaving at 11.15 (=9.15 UTC) and everything was back on deck around 13.30. Because of the change of command, we got a bonus in the shape of a ...

Hi Piet,

okay then, that might be a reasonable explanation! I'll cross my fingers and go then. By the way, do support aircraft for the departing planes normally arrive on friday or on thursday?


Bas

Hi Crizz,

any news on the rumour that thursday will be a non-flying day?

Bas

Perhaps not....I think that there's mission planned for today (10/9). I guess most participants will not be leaving on the same day that they still flew a mission. I hope someone can clear this up, as I had planned to go tomorrow but I might change this to friday so I can catch the participants at l...

Great pics Marcel. I love these exotic locations.

Bas