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June 11th 2016, it’s a grey saturday in the far north of the Netherlands. Location Leeuwarden AFB.
F-35 Lightning II
This year the public days of the Dutch air force are dominated by the presence of two Dutch F-35 Lightning II aircraft that crossed the atlantic for tests in the Netherlands on Leeuwarden AFB and around (airborne) Volkel AFB. Also the air force took the change to promote the aircraft to the Dutch public. Especially the noise of the F-35 was reason for concerns in the surroundings of Leeuwarden and Volkel AFB. These concerns were proved to be untrue.
Public Days are populair
Public Days of the air force are a popular day out in the Netherlands, but this year (because of the F-35) it was extremely busy, more than 280,000 people attended the show in 2016. For me it wasn’t as busy like this since the eighties!
Grey and Wet
Unfortunally the weather on the saturday we were present was not very good, grey and wet. If you look close enough you can see the rain on some photo’s as ‘noise’.
enjoy our photo report.
General Dynamics Fokker F-16AM Fighting Falcon 401 J-002 Netherlands air force
General Dynamics Fokker F-16AM Fighting Falcon 401 J-624 Netherlands air force
Lockheed Martin F-16DJ Fighting Falcon 4085 Polish air force
Lockheed Martin F-16DJ Fighting Falcon 4085 Polish air force
Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S 30+87 German air force
Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S 31+30 German air force
General Dynamics Fokker F-16BM Fighting Falcon 401 J-066 Netherlands air force
1,100 personnel and 48 aircraft from 7 NATO nations have descended on Leeuwarden Air Force Base in the Netherlands for the start of the two-week-long “FRISIAN FLAG” exercise. The local Dutch population have been treated […]
Impression of the 2002 Beauvechain air show / Belgium armed forces public day. All photo’s by M. van Leeuwen en Rob Vogelaar (images are scanned negatives and color slides) Photo report:
NATO Tiger meet 2011 from 09 May – 20 May 2011 at Cambrai Air Base in the Northern part of France with host unit: Escadron de Chasse 01.012. This tiger meet was to be the biggest […]
Public Days are populair
