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Not a very good, not a very bad day. In the morning quiet hours: three movements in 5 hours. This was compensated later on. Here some shots from Leo's Canon. PS1 Did one our colleagues pick up his raincoat, because we found out he forgot to take it from the tree? PS2 Beware of ticks in this weather....

Found some old slides. Not 100% quality... October 75 http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/9_31_filtered.jpg March 85 http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/5_23_filtered.jpg April (no year..) http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/51_06_fil...

This morning no less than 5 NATO E3 left and one TCA. Tanker 80083 arrived from Ohio.
00374 was doing engine runs.
C12 40163 did circuits around 11AM.
The field was almost empty then, only one NATO E3 visible. Don't want to feed any rumours though.

While Henk was trying to stay out of the hands of the guards I just kept on taking my pics. Early seventies 32TFS traded their FY68 F4 for brand new FY74 examples. This one came in straight from the factory. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/00663_filtered.jpg Often one F4 ca...

Seeing the beautiful pics taken recently makes me think back. So I made scans of types no longer active in the Swiss Air Force. In alphabetical order: The Beech transport http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/A713_filtered.jpg The Pilatus trainer http://i276.photobucket.com/album...

Found some Luftwaffe slides that may be of interest. Once there was a regular flight connection between Furstenfeldbruck and Soesterberg- both bases closed now. Ginas were flying on that route. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/3424_filtered.jpg Beautiful day at Norvenich feb...

It seems only two crashed: they collided on approach, see http://sharpshooter-maj.com/html/deploy84.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

Spangdahlem saw several A7 deployment in the late eighties. I had been at Rickenbacker before, but seeing them again was OK: http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/10323_filtered.jpg The OK unit was also present during one of the deployments: http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4...

One would see every day one or more C141s http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/40622_filtered.jpg If you had one C5 your day was good. How different are these days! http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/80220_filtered.jpg OV10 from nearby Sembach. This one ha...

When 86 Fighter Wing converted from F4 to F16 alert duties at Ramstein were performed by ANG F4D's http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/40963_filtered.jpg Much earlier there were yearly deployments of 49 TFW F4Ds. These are seen departing back to New Mexico. http://i276.photobuc...

Finally found the time, purchased the equipment. First results from analogue to digital transformation. This beauty has featured already in a different thread. Arrival of Battle damage repair F4C in June 86 at Soesterberg. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/37453_filtered.jpg ...

The usual : Charleston C-17s http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/C17_60007_filtered.jpg It seems this Travis C-5 is a resident http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk4/hansderee/spotting/C5_70042_filtered.jpg There were no less than four different Blackhawks with red crosses bash...

My son (14) got the opportunity to test his skills with a new Canon. It was a beautiful day with good variety and plenty of sunshine. Landing and take-off shots are well covered at the FF-site. Here some other results. An Apache just after being unloaded from a C-17: http://i276.photobucket.com/albu...

It's still carrying its nickname:
Spirit of the AIR FORCE !!!

Tommorrow we will try our luck again. On behalf of all spotters I would like to ask persons with the right connections to transmit the photographers request to Florennes ATC and AMI AB212 aircrew to use runway 26R or 08L for approach. Their reward will be beautiful portraits of these ships on the In...