Derk

Goed verhaal Iwan, glad to hear !!!!

Thx Migbuster !!!

WHAT a splendid idea Michael !!!!!!!!

Contemplating the past in the way you do it Piecemeal is a GREAT way of keeping in touch with that same past, your mother is there and will be smiling upon you from above !!!

...just two weeks before retirement..... http://player.vimeo.com/video/88580110

.....will be held in the Hague (10 miles from where we live) in 10 days and we're gonna be right in the middle of it.... There will be 58 world leaders and of course a lot of other people. Motorways between Schiphol airport, Rotterdam airport and the Hague will be closed .More than 8000 defence personnel will be involved with stuff including light tanks, armoured cars and heavy weapons. The former- but still intact- RNNAS Valkenburg , a few miles down the road, will be used for stationing Apaches, Cougars and Chinooks and there will be 3 batteries of NASAMS II missiles stationed at a 3 more locations ,parking places near the beaches and a glider airfield, just a few miles from here (NASAMS is an anti aircraft missile system based on the AIM-120 AMRAAM, can be coupled to the airborne Link 16 system) . We will have standing patrols of fully armed F16 MLU's from Leeuwarden and Volkel AB with tanker support, continuous AWACS surveillance and radar coverage from Nieuw Milligen and a mobile radar at Valkenburg. As the Hague is situated at the coast, at sea there will be a 6000 tonnes air defence LCF frigate (ZMS "de Zeven Provinciën") at anchor and two sister ships patrolling along the coast line..... To top off the whole thing there will be a police force of 13000 men (meaning a lot less speeding- and parking tickets for a while) And for the record: a certain mr. Putin will NOT be there (too busy protecting poor surpressed Russians at the Krim by pouring in more poor surpressed Russians from the rest of Russia) As for the expected terrorists, they have 3 days to react..............

Hi, hi, good old Anthony Fokker must have turned in his grave on this thing...

Quite a job hitting a badger with such a small thing as the K-26....

You won't see them this way at an airshow, fabulous, and an impeccable performance ....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-O4ibrNRDI#t=299

IQ equals their shoesize.....

King & Queen.........

MiG 15, beginning of the Cold War, Korea........

Saw the prototype demonstrated at a KLu Open Day at Gilze Rijen by Neil Anderson (RIP) in 1979, 35 years ago......

Is he married ? And probably smoked a lot.... But an absolutely fantastic job, looked it up: 432 ships and 12000 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) aircraft (though I wonder if that's not a typo)

Indeed the nose comes down harder than in a normal landing where the movement is counterbalanced by the leverage of the stabilators at a speed where they are still effective , but the nose wheel position is also quite a bit farther back than the position where the nose hits the ground, meaning a lot extra leverage forces on the fuselage.... Really wonder if it ever flew again......

Great way to decieve the enemy !!

Lot of very angry Russian baboesjka's, not being able to cook dinner...

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Thanks Cliff, works like a charm. Got all my Mirage 2000 stuff in order now !!!

....English comment......

In the heydays we used to have 24 F 16's doing the airfield attack......... Those were the days....

Love the MiG , especially since the demo by the Polish UTI at the Volkel KLu Open Days last summer......... (VERY tight curces at low level !!!)

Speedskating getting somewhat monotonous.

SHIIIIIIIIT happens....