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Belgian Air Force Days 2023 Kleine Brogel

Blue skies, temperature over 30°C and the organization therefore took extra measures against the heat. “At four points on the airbase people could refill their bottles and refresh themselves. Highlights included not only the demonstrations [...]
Air Shows

100 Years Italian Air Force June 2023

The 100-year-old Italian Air Force, officially known as the Aeronautica Militare, stands as a venerable institution with a rich and storied history. Established on March 28, 1923, the Italian Air Force has evolved into a [...]
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Road trip Route du Soleil from Barcelona to Dijon

In the summer of 2023, we took a road trip from Barcelona to Dijon, along the Route du Soleil, to visit some airports and aviation museums. We started the trip at the airport observation platform [...]
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Amsterdam Schiphol 2023

For Amsterdam Schiphol the year 2023 started with ComLux Aruba Dreamliner, that had “NO WOMAN SHOULD BE FORCED TO COVER HER HEAD / NO WOMAN SHOULD BE KILLED FOR NOT COVERING HER HEAD / NO [...]
Air Shows

100 years Italian Air Force, Pratica di Mare “Historical Camp”

The “Historical Camp” designed as a one-way system that led people chronologically through the history of the Italian Air Force. Many of the airframes had been transported from the Museo Storico Aeronautica Militare at Vigna [...]

Eurocopter AS.332B1 Super Puma HD.21-11 803-11 803Esc Spanish Air Force and Boeing NAH-64D Apache Royal Netherlands Air Force

APROC 2018 Gilzen Rijen AB, Netherlands

APROC 2018 – From 23 May to 6 June Every year the European Personnel Recovery Center (EPRC) organizes the ‘Air Centric Personnel Recovery Operatives Course (APROC). This year in the Netherlands at Gilze Rijen Air […]

16-07-2018 Heathrow UK

Our Biannual visit to the UK for Farnborough, RIAT and some Museums brought us to an hotel next to Heathrow’s landing strip. A great spot for luxury aircraft spotting with picnic tables, a nice pint […]

2012 Florennes Airshow

Seventy years of militairy aviation at Florennes Air Base was one of the items of the Florennes International Air Show on 23 – 24 June 2012.

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

The F-111 was developed according to a US Air Force requirement for a new fighter-bomber and the US Navy’s need for a new air Defence fighter with a single platform. The US navy cancelled the […]

Myasishchev M-55 Geophysica

The Soviet Union Myasishchev M-55 Geophysica is a high altitude reconnaissance aircraft with a twin boom fuselage and tail surface design. It is a development of the M-17. On September 21, 1993, an M-55 piloted by […]

Lockheed C-5A / B Galaxy

The Lockheed C-5A/B Galaxy is the largest USAF aircraft and is a conventional high-wing, T-tailed transport aircraft. The C-5A made his maiden flight on June 30, 1968, and the first operational C-5A reached Military Airlift […]

2010 Midland Air Museum

On Coventry Airport (Baginton, Warwickshire UK) lies the Midland Air Museum that holds a number of aircraft from the RAF, USAF, Polish Air Force and more. Some amazing aircraft can be found there, even an […]

Bournemouth Aviation Museum 2016

July 2016, we are traveling the UK to visit Fairford and Farnborough airshows. During these visits we always visit a few aviation museums, this year Bournemouth is one of them. Bournemouth aviation museum is mostly […]

2006 Luftwaffe Museum, Berlin / Gatow

Visiting the ILA in June 2006 we took the change to make a daytrip to Gatow and visit the German Luftwaffe museum. Unfortunately the weather was very bad.. we will visit the museum again in […]

Mudry CAP 232

Civilian fact sheets

The CAP 232 is designed by Auguste Mudry. After Mudry’s bankruptcy in 1996, Akrotech Europe took over the CAP series [...]

Airbus A350

Civilian fact sheets

The Airbus A350 (Airbus response to the Boeing 787) is based on the A330, but with substantial improvements to boost [...]

Civilian fact sheets

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