December 2025

The last edition this year of your favourite online magazine, as we are approaching the holiday season. From all of us at Scramble we wish you a very merry Christmas and a wonderful 2026!

To keep you occupied over the festive period we have three articles for you: 'Hooftman, bevlogen luchtvaartjournalist', Whatever happened to ... The Indonesian Nomads and The McDonnell-Douglas MD-11. The first article is a book review about Hugo Hooftman, who for many in the sixties and seventies laid the foundation for aircraft spotting as a hobby, and was written by Gert Jan Mentink. Erwin van Dijkman dug into various archives and online resources and created a comprehensive overview of Indonesian Nomads. Lastly, due to recent events, Anton Homma produced a history and production list of the venerable MD-11.

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The January 2026 edition will be available from Sunday 4 January and the deadline for photos is Tuesday 30 December.

This month, we received another series of NATO Tiger Meet photos. While the colour red has definitely made its way into tiger schemes, along the usual yellow and orange, the Italian Air Force took a different approach. F-2000A MM7355 was adorned with the Tigri Bianche of the 351st Squadriglia, on a background with green and blue. (Beja, 1 October 2025, Remco Hamilton).