Derk

I would have taken up more of 'em I had been Aussie....

In one word: WOW !!!!

Suffered birdstrike yesterday during touch & goes at Kleine Brogel AB. Pilot (traning in the F16 OCU)ejected safely, though he had to be rescued out of a tree by the fire brigade, Plane crashed into a field about 4km from the base. No further victims Always a a dramatic occurrence.... saw it happening right in front of me during take off for the Airpower demo at KLu Open Days 2007 at Volkel. In this case some engine power remained after a restart and after dropping underwing fuel tanks thepilot could make an emergency landing. Demo was cancelled, little birdie vs. 16 F16's : 1-0 If you look carefully at 32 -33 seconds in te slow motion part of the second vid you see the bird being ingested....

You're sure right about that although the BAF (and for that matter KLu) F 16's are getting quite rare.........

Mein Gott, where is my Panzerfaust, the enemy Panzers have broken through......... By the way, where & when was this sort of reenactment ??

Great website !! This PW F100 engined Super V1000 looks very interesting to me, gonna play it for a try-out !!

Never start the program without your stick plugged in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next year it's our KLu's turn for the Century.... don't think we can even get 100 planes/helo's into the air....... (especially since we're going to have a VERY socialist (with Marxist/ Maoist backgrounds) party as a winner of the next elections.....)

Ha, but that leaves a LOT of interesting stuff that IS allowed in there !!!

Very intriquing (if that's the right word)and beautifully done !!!. In 1988 however the roundels would have been rather smaller and only on the left wing top and right wing bottom. But then, so what, it's a what if...

I like this !!!

Ha, ha, you should Jordy, was a nice occasion !!! Did you finish your F16C in due time ? Houdoe, Derk

http://www.aviationmegastore.com/info_nl/005_about_us.php?shopid=LM501c1dc6e4a766482c1ad88e5b There is an ex IAF example on a pole (!) in nearby Aviation Megastore shop (10 min drive) so if you need any details......

Highlights of the top notch F-104G demo team of the German Navy , "THE VIKINGS" in their last year of operation, no less than 1h 16 min of fantastic flying, the Starfighter at its best......... :sohappy: Saw them many times, every show as thrilling as could be !!!! These guys, together with the BAF "Slivers", the RCAF "Canadian Starfighters" in their CF-104's and the legendary and amazing solo demo by our own KLu capt. Hans van der Werf (one must have seen it to believe it was possible in the F-104) really brought the best of the Starfighter. Those were the days my friends..........

Yep, it's the solo display, at Ramstein too.

Guess the police was waiting with wheelclamps and all to make sure the parking fees are paid.

Thx, good luck with the job !!

That's a beautiful, radiant and adorable girl ....

Wonder how intact it is after being rammed, depth charged and scuttled with explosive charges......

They are absolute geniuses in this department !!

Back in the good old days.......

Apart from all your great WIP I like your logo very much Veltro: The Royal United States Air Force Europe !!!!

Imbeciles....... IQ the same as their shoe-size.

The Korean 747 should have been forced to land, That's that, the other actions were criminal . Back in the '50's Aeroflot started fying from Moscow to Amsterdam with Tu- 104's, the absolute Badger lookalike,directly developed from it, including the bombers nose. In the north part of our country where we lived then, directly under the airway to the northeast from Schiphol, we regularly saw USAFE 32 FIS "Wolfhounds" F-100 C's from Soesterberg and our own Hunters doing practice intercepts (!) at 30.000 + feet on the Tupolev's (great to see what an afterburner does to a contrail). But on the other side I have seen the Tupolev's flying very much outside the airways at low altitude (a few thousand feet) ..... All our airbases and military installations were photographed, either from directly overhead or oblique. Usually there were "technical problems" in the Tu's, forcing it away from the airway ......... Definitely no question of shooting it down however....