Hunting Hunters and Vampires

[Dysko]

Last weekend the Swiss watchmaker company Oris organized a fly-in in Ambrì airport, a former military airbase now used as a general aviation airport in Canton Ticino, in southern Switzerland.

 

In Italy I'm used to great distances between the public and the airplanes. In Switzerland...

 

Fliegermuseum Altenrhein's Hawker Hunters:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fliegermuseum Altenrhein's de Havilland Vampire:

 

 

 

Antonov An-2:

 

 

Most of the stencils have been translated in English, only few stencils are still in Russian:

 

P-3 Flyers display team:

 

 

Boeing Stearman:

 

 

Pitts Special:

 

Other russians 2 Yakovlev Yak-52:

 

 

ERCO Ercoupe:

 

As you can see, the Ercoupe doesn't have pedals. The rudder is linked to the ailerons so that always performs coordinated turns:

 

Lots of PC-7s were flying, most of them with paying passengers on board:

 

Focke-Wulf FW-149, license built version of the Italian light plane Piaggio P.149:

 

Bolkow Bo.208 Junior:

 

Gyroflug Super Canard. It is based on the Grob Twin Astir glider: it retains the glider's cockpit section, but with an added engine, different wingplant and canards:

 

de Havilland of Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk:

 

Every fly-in MUST have a yellow Piper Cub!

 

Former Libyan SIAI-Marchetti SF-260, now wearing a fantasy livery:

 

Did the Breitling Jet Team made an apperance? Nope, it is just a big turbine-powered RC model:

 

And, as usual, a video by Spillone104:

[+Sundowner]

Stunning m8.

[+ST0RM]

The background adds so much to the life of the photos. Switzerland was beautiful to shoot from. Great work!

 

I love how casual everyone is around the aircraft during servicing and watching from above the HAS.

 

Glad your day went well and thank you for sharing.

 

-Jeff

[jeanba]

Great pictures for a great event

[Derk]

Fantastic, thanks for posting !!