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This year in 2021, the AS532 Cougar has been in use with the 300 Squadron of the Royal Netherlands Air Force for over 25 years. This unit is part of the Defense Helicopter Command (DHC) and is based at Gilze-Rijen Air Base. On October 29, 1993, the contract was signed for the purchase of seventeen A...

In the week of February 08 2021, there were very 'wintery' weather situations in the Netherlands. Temperatures going down to -10 or even -15 Centigrade at night with some 10-20 cm of snow. The last time these kind of winter weather was seen in the Netherlands, was about a decade ago. Due to the Coro...

Last Tuesday, February 9, I had some old-fashioned luck. I was on my way home after a nice day in Maastricht with snow. Driving home and between Eindhoven and Oirschot I ended up in a traffic jam! It was now half past four, so everyone wanted to go home at that time. Fortunately, the people of the R...

During this visit at Maastricht Aachen Airport, there were a lot of Qatar Cargo aircraft on its way to the airport. This morning it was really an Qatari invasion in Maastricht. The first movement of the day was the departure of one of the B787 Dream Liners of the company. Later also two Triple Seven...

On Wednesday February 3rd, this Antonov An-12 of CAVOK departed from Eindhoven. The aircraft has a characteristic color scheme in orange and dark blue. It has been a long time ago that CAVOK aircraft have visited Eindhoven. The company was for more than a year not welcome in the Netherlands due to r...

During the morning wave a flight of five F-16s left Volkel for a local sortie. This was one of my first tries of the brand new Nikon Z6 II camera. The spotting area of Volkel is a quite unique location, because you can stand quite close next to the taxi track.

During this cold winter day a Chinook of the Royal Netherlands Air Force was performing some sling action somewhere on the GLV4. The helicopter made almost for 2,5 hours sling flights. The helicopter involved was the D-106 which is also know as the "Porcupine". The helicopter belongs to the no 298 S...

During this cold day it was quite busy at Eindhoven Air Base. In the early morning some Ryan Air 737s came in and the Silk Way Il-76 landed. Also the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) was quite busy this day. In a window of one hour, the Gulfstream, the KDC-10 and a A330 MRTT were launched. The fo...

Nice! As said earlier, I like your stories as well as your movies! It seems your lens doesn't "hunt" at all? Nope, no hunting, that is because Nikon solved a lot of issues on focusing in the new camera series Z6 II and Z7 II. They are now very accurate. Nikon really made some steps in the good dire...

During this video the new Nikon Z6 II camera was tested with the long tele lens settings. The setup which was used here was the Nikon Z6 II + FTZ + TC14 + Nikkor 200-400mm f4.0. Also the camera was used at DX, therefore the taxi shots are made at 400mm x 1.5 crop factor (DX) x 1.4x (Tele Converter) ...

Since the development of the Mitsubishi F-2 began, the Japan Self Air Defense Force (JASDF) has had three operational squadron flying this type. There is also a conversion squadron that ensures the type of conversion in the training process. A number of F-2s are used for testing and by developing th...

Hehe, that was because I was switching in between from FX to DX, but I consider it as positive that you want to see more

Throughout the year, there are always a few special aircraft passing by at Eindhoven Air Base that are not commonplace at the base. This time it was an Ilyushin Il-76 from Silk Way Airlines. Silk Way Airlines is an Azerbaijani private cargo airline with its headquarters and flight operations at Heyd...

At the end of the year 2020 this AS532 Cougar of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) came by at the Oirschotse Heide GLV-5. The Cougar did some training approaches in heath part of the GLV-5, which is located in the back of the terrain. The helicopter performed several pretty confined landings b...

This video contains a sample of the new Nikon Z7 II mirrorless camera. I used this camera for the first time at Eindhoven Air Base. During the tests, two Ryan Air airliners and the KDC-10 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force passed by. I initially filmed the Ryan Air planes from the tripod with the Ni...