Hunter
Wrecks&Relics (2011-today)
October 1, 2022 | Frank & Gijs & Hans
This gallery features pictures of aircraft that have been disposed of or preserved in one way or another; the airframes depicted here (gate-guards, monuments, eye-catchers, etc.) are photographed in the years 2011 onward. Airframes pictured in earlier years are in a separate gallery. Note that some of the aircraft portrayed here are no longer present at the given location.
W&R portrayed in the USA are dealt with in a separate gallery (also in this album “Preserved Aircraft”).
Eindhoven (NL) , July 1993 (Arrivals for Open Days)
November 6, 2020 | Hans
A wide variety of aircraft types presented itself during the 1993 Eindhoven Open Days ( see report elsewhere on the site).
On the 1st and 2nd of July the landing-area was already crowded with aircraft-spotters and photographers (Hans included) . … Read More
KLu: HAWKER HUNTER
October 16, 2019 | Frank & Gijs & Hans 3
Commencing in 1955 the Royal Netherlands Air Force (K.Lu.) in total received 189 Hawker Hunters (F.4 and F.6 versions), equipping six squadrons at Leeuwarden , (Twenthe) ,Woensdrecht and Soesterberg. The F.4s (serials N-101 upto N-196) were phased out in … Read More
Spotting at RAF Fairford , U.K. July 1987 (International Air Tattoo)
September 12, 2017 | Hans
In July 1987 Hans boarded the ferry-boat from Hook of Holland to Harwich with his car and after arrival in the U.K.he travelled to RAF Fairford.
RAF Greenham Common , U.K. , July 23rd, 1983 (International Air Tattoo)
October 4, 2014 | Hans
On July 23rd , 1983 Scramble Tours organized a one day return trip to what is known as the biggest Air Show event in Europe : the International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common , U.K.
Hans joined the travel-group and took to the air in NLM City Hopper’s Fokker F-28 Fellowship PH-CHN for a flight from Amsterdam AP (Schiphol) to Southampton , U.K. and onwards by touring car to destination.
Kleine Brogel (B) Open Day / Tiger Meet, June 1978
March 12, 2014 | Frank & Gijs & Hans
The 1978 Tiger Meet was held at Kleine Brogel AB (Belgium) from 19-26 June. Participating were the air arms of 10 different countries including Norway, Greece and Portugal. On 23 June KB was open to the public and on Saturday 24 June the 31 squadron ‘Tiger’ area was open to the public. We all three visited the event.
Spotting at Soesterberg Air Base (NL)
November 17, 2013 | Hans & Frank
Frank only incidentally visited Soesterberg AB , but Hans frequented the former Air Base quite often because he moved to the province of Utrecht (where Soesterberg is located) at the end of the Sixties , after having made his living in Eindhoven . So he (also) became a Soesterberg AB “home” spotter and he already has published a lot of his Soesterberg pictures elsewhere on the web. The picture-gallery on our website shows a limited selection of pictures not only of the aircraft of the resident American “Royal” squadron , The Wolfhounds , but also of various other planes that were stationed at Soesterberg AB or only paid a visit over the years. They were all taken from outside the base.
Royal Air Force Wildenrath (G) Airshow, June 15th, 1969
August 28, 2013 | Hans & Frank
On a very hot day in June 1969 the Wildenrath Airshow took place; Wildenrath was at the time one of the four RAF-Germany airbases. It was an excellent opportunity for young spotters,such as Hans and Frank , to enlarge their collection!
Warbirds at the Volkel Airshow, June 2013
June 23, 2013 | Hans & Frank
The Royal Netherlands Air Force celebrated 100 years of military aviation in the Netherlands & 60 years of K.Lu. with two Open Days, 14&15 June; this event was featuring a lot of warbirds and a fair number of them are depicted in this report.
