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I went to Bitburg several times back in the 80's. The place was not exactly spotter friendly then. Once I was arrested and and taken to the local Police office for questioning. Several other times I was only told to leave. Here are a few taken in the easterly wind approach on a good day in August 19...

More black & whites... for me too, those where the days of cheap film, cheap camera and lots of exiting aircraft. The event: Squadron exchange with 43 Sqn. I do not remember the exact dates, think it was July 1979. XV579 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/RAFF4XV579b.jpg XV569 http://s69.p...

My favorite classic Aeronavale jets: 16F Etendard 4MP, Fairford 1989 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/Etend153.jpg 59S Etendard 4M, Brustem 1989 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/Etendard3.jpg 12F F-8E FN, KeeBee 1999 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/FraF834.jpg

Davy, you wanted some Belgian Mirage V's, here they are: BR 20, 42 Sm - Ramstein, 8 Aug 1986 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/BR20.jpg BA 44, Twenthe, 3 Jul 1987 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/BA44.jpg BR 03, 42 Sm - Luik Bierset 6 Sep 1991 http://s69.photobucket.com/albums...

NKC-135A's from 4950th Test Wg at Wright Patterson, August 1992. http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/USA_KC135_55-3120.jpg http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/USA_KC135_55-31202.jpg http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/USA_KC135_55-3122.jpg and strange looking EC-135E 61-03...

KC-135A 58-0123 from 379th BW, Ramstein Augustus 1986

And some European stuff. Volkel, October 1986 (K64) http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/Ita_F104_MM6792.jpg Binbrook, May 1987 (K64) http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/RAF_Lightning_XP741.jpg Hopsten, April 1993 (Fuji Sensia) http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/GER_F4_379...

I scanned these K64 slides I made in Februari 1990 with a Nikon Coolscan 5000. Ellington Field http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/USA_F111_68-0153.jpg Niagara Falls http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/USA_F4_66-7491.jpg Miramar NAS http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/USN_...

Cambrai, Oct 13:

F-16C 93-0674
F-16C 93-0675
F-16C 94-0095
F-16D 94-0110

The Turks all wear 152 Filo markings and are detached to Cambrai for Noble Ardent. No local Mirage activity, seems they are deployed to Orange.

I found only 3 you are looking for, I guess many on your shopping list were w/o by the time I started to take pictures. D-6683 Volkel 4oct78 http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/D-6683.jpg D-8109 Leeuwarden 19jun79 http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/schuit/D-8109.jpg D-8319 Soesterberg ju...

The AMX is 51-11 (credits to Bert van der Linden who posted this very nice landing shot of both AMX's on another MB earlier today):

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h17/B ... G_2273.jpg

regards, Henk.

Yes, they are 132 Filo - same "winged dagger" badges as the 132 Filo F-16's that made a weekend stop at Lakenheath enroute to Red Flag Alaska July 7th/8th 2007:

88-0035, 89-0042, 91-0017, 92-0005, 92-0008, 92-0015

regards, Henk.

May 7th - After 2 days at Colmar I spent a morning at the other French Mirage F1 hotspot. They used runway 07 so I placed myself on the dirtroad at the end of the runway which is good for both take off and taxiing shots (fortunately, most of the Mirages taxied till the end). The base gendarmerie fou...

COLMAR, May 5th - Perfect weather all day and I got what I came for: Some nice shots of EC01.030 F1's. Mirage F1B EC01.030: 502/30-SW 504/30-ST 509/30-SD Mirage F1CT EC01.030: 256/30-SH 257/30-SF Mirage F1CT EC02.030: 233/30-QT 271/30-QQ special tailmarks "65" 274/30-QJ 279/30-QL 283/30-QI Alphajet ...

Nellis, Oct 1995. Departing 03L late afternoon.