Air Force Days 2014

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Air Show

In the air show lots of room for the heritage of the Air Force, with the Spitfire, Lancaster, Mitchell and more recent the Dutch Hawker Hunter. The Spanish air force brought there helicopter demo team ASPA again flying the Airbus EC-120. The Belgium Air Force showed the Sea King, which will be replaced by the NH90 in the near future.

PH-PSI, P-51

PH-PBY, PBY-5

A-301, SA.316

A-275, SA.316

3E-LC, SA.316

L-01, PC-7

PH-OUQ, Spitfire

PH-XXV, B-25

PA474 / QR-M, Lancaster

G-KAXF, Hunter

PA474 / QR-M, Lancaster

PS915, Spitfire

G-KAXF, Hunter

PH-PBY, PBY-5

PH-PBA, C-47

RS-04, Sea King

-, EC-120

HE.25-11/78-30, EC-120

86+70, Bo105

PH-CGN, DO-228

Red Arrows

The Red Arrows were the closing act at Friday. On Saturday the show was flown before noon as they had to attend another show (in Brighton) in the afternoon. Due to the cloud cover the mid show was flown on Saturday.

XX242, Hawk

XX278, Hawk

Hawk 1 / Lion 1

The Apache Solo Display team is well-known sight at European air shows and the flares used during the show set the standard for lots of display teams now a days. But it must be said, the Hawk 1 is still the most spectacular of them all.

This season the Solo Display F-16 lost its beautiful Lion color scheme. It still troughs lots of flares, but its missing the wow factor.

NH90 Demo

The NH90 used by the Navy is operated by the Air Force and also based like the other helicopters at Gilze-Rijen in the Defense Helicopter Command. The NH90 was shown first at the Air Force Days in 2008, but this year was only the second demo at the show.

N-277, NH90

Other demo's

Other demo’s included the Belgian F-16 Solo Display, which was excellent, especially on Friday with a thundercloud as backdrop. The Slovakian Air Force brought two “Tiger” MiG-29s, one of them during a demo. Great to see these 4th generation “cold war” fighters still being operational. The Hellenic Air Force showed the capabilities of the F-16C. Saturday the show was concluded by the Swiss F/A-18.