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Spain: brilliant game, well deserved. Italy: deep respect

Great pic's, great place... Those huge inland seas must really be something special, would love to visit them some day..........

Think they deserved this...

Well played Italy, incredible change from the way they acted a couple of years ago, great turnaround and Germany was well and truly beaten...

Incredible and lovely Henrik, those memories will be with you forever !!

Looks horrible... good luck there Typhoid !!!!

Am I still in time ???? Congrats just the same........... (and thank you Widowmaker...)

Ha, ha, it's a "Tornado-ized" TSR 2 !!! Great stuff !!!!!!!

Italy played a refreshing sort of football, liked it, England just couldn't cope with it... Extremely fair match for a change!!!

Hm Henrik, this is slippery ground..... A few real fanatic islamists can terrorize a whole moderate majority into into puppets of a fundamentalist regime... They play their own rules I'm afraid ..... As an example, right on your and my doorstep : were all the Germans right away Nazi's in the beginning ?

....especially as it used to be all over the place with several bases in Northern France populated with big RCAF wings and another 50 or so flown by the BAF. There were huge dogfights in those days and with it's big straight wings it was outclassing the RCAF day interceptor Sabres Mk VI at high altitude .....

Hi, hi, so in other words the Israeli newspapers use Combatace as a source for pictures

Great, especially the Gnat !!

They are great !!! The ME 262 has non afterburning J 85's.... (they were among others used for the Hansajet)

Ha, ha, "Stary" means "old" . But (again) congrats anyway my friend , stay mlody 4ever !!!

hi, hi, :mda:

Germany was better and the Dutch pathetic....

Ugly incident, typical for the paranoid attitude and agressive way of thinking of the Soviets in those days.... The nearby island to where it happened looks like paradise to me.....

Nice to see some of our NF's again !!! The Turkish Stars are flying them as well.....

Well, looked like the Poles had something like a whole divsion of police marching into the stadium at the end of the match..... But I liked the play well enough !!!!

http://www.aviationmegastore.com/ and http://www.scramble.nl/main.htm

Fantastic Jonathan !! The description of the atmosphere is great, very nice style !!!!! In the '50's we lived near Eelde where the Dutch flying school was stationed and we always had flying students around in our house as guests (via the fieldhockey they played together with my brother and sister). They just came by or stayed for days for studying. Untill my father asked them to stop it, we regularly had litlle airhows over our house by those guys with (indeed) Tiger Moth's and Harvards and during a holiday at Schiermonnikoog Island there was a dusk low level "bombing raid" with a Beech 18 with closet rolls (!) being thrown out of the passenger door..... Those were the days my friend...... The pilots ended as 747 captains with KLM - we are still in touch with them - so in the end all was well, but the beginning was like your story !! I have a very nice book with paintings and drawings by Serge Stone about life in the KLu, which also starts out with Tigers and Harvards in the way you so vividly describe .. Great Job !!

Worried about this one too....