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Patuxent River Air Show 2016 pics (Naval Test Pilots)

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Last Thursday PL and I flew to Washington. The main goal was to take pics of the oldest US Navy aircraft, the NU-1A Otter and a Beaver. There are also interesting early production types based with the various squadrons in Patuxent River which we hoped to see. Here are the Friday "arrival/rehearsal day" pics (the weekend pics will follow later):

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hope you like them!
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Definitely do! :bthumb:
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Nice shots
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How did you manage to get on Friday?
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Very nice Stip!
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Wow! A flying Sea Harrier! What a field!
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fire28 wrote:How did you manage to get on Friday?
We where Lucky at the gate. They Let us pass. Once on the airfield it was very relaxed within the static area.
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Patuxent River Air Show 2016 (weekend showPics)

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Here are some Saturday and Sunday pics. The show was nice but like most US airshows nowadays not too inpressive:

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The PRO's arranged a visit to the platform from where the Parachute team took off. More operational pics of this and the Monday visit to TPS later.
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Wow! looks like a great show..... and all the vapors ...

Very nice set

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Lovely collection Pat! :-)

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Patuxent River Air Show 2016 (Naval Test Pilots)

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Thanks for all the nice comments!
Here are the pics we shot in the VX-21 (on Sunday) and Naval Test Pilots hangar (on Monday) and platforms:
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Special Thanks to the great efforts the PRO's took!

These last two pics we shot during the airshow days while driving back to the gate:
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Should I put the USArmy helicopters in my database as beloning to the Navy?
Later I will put some pics of the Museum including the flying Bathtub....
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Seems like it was an excellent visit! Good work guys. :toppie:
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wow, a visit to HX-21 is very very rare, great catch!
Do you happen to have a full log?

Those Army choppers are operated by the USN so that makes them Navy... right?
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Those are real beauties Stip!!
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Post by Stephan Lodewijks »

Nice additions!! Next to the obvious 'wowwww'-aircraft, to me also that yellow Bell 206-model is a stunner!! (is it a H-57, 58 or 67? I suppose 57, but maybe it's ex-Army?)

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