TURKEY CELEBRATES AIRFORCE 100 !
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Turkish Airforce competes with the age
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Years of Turkish Airforce Party
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The
best Italian independent aviation magazine, dedicates 5 pages ! |
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The complete story translated in Italian,
where also many aviation enthousiasts read this magazine |
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The Italian contribution to 'Turkish
Airforce competes with the age' |
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Ok, welcome back here in page two !
Starting with this Italian C-27-J Spartan... |
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i...coming in and landing, transporting
equipment probably for the team 'Frecce Tricolore'. |
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T-41-D
Cessna 'Mescalero' flying by, and the Ptt's steals the show. That's what it
is made for anyway. |
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Many thanks for this nice gift... |
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...a key-ring version of the 'Remove
before Flight' streamers. |
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And yes, here they are suddenly, the
stunning sensational demo planes of the'fabulous 'Turkish Stars' !! |
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Pictures can only give an image, you have
to see these guys fly their machines... |
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and believe me, they fly better than you drive ! |
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Thanks for now guys, we'll be back to you. |
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And what have we here... ground to air
assault ?? 'Happy cameramen' |
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Another surprise... no
this is not a Pilatus PC-9... |
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...it concerns the KAI KT-1T Woong
Bee ... |
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.... but Pilatus Switzerland visitors may
have had their own thoughts :-) |
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Nice Radio, TV and Magazine Press-ladies
showed up in the scenery of Izmir AFB...'Happy Press' |
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.... but you're right, let's stick to the
planes. Like this fine Northrop T-38A Talon from 121 Filo |
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For the spectators a treat to see this
slim appearance twin-seater |
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... The platform masters did a great job,
in placing these machines in front of such a beautiful environment... |
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... compliments to you all ! |
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But there were so many others who made
this celebration a succes, like these girls and boys...'Happy Staff'. |
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... and all people who made sure all
these planes were in the right position... |
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... such as this Agusta Bell 412EP Coast
Guard Helicopter |
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'Happy Catering'! Staff of all kinds of
services, companies up to safety personell, it was all taken care of. Good
feeling ! |
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Back to the planes, here the Algerian
Hercules once again, taxying along the runway... |
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... and on the static show this Boeing
737- AEW&C |
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AEW&C stands for Airborne Early
Warning & Control... |
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This plane can handle a range of over
7000 kilometers... |
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.... and we are airborne with this hughe
'Looking Glass' ! |
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Sure it does take some fuel occasional,
so let's not forget about the ground crews around these peace-keepers. |
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... The McDonnell Douglas F-4E 2020 from
111 Filo... |
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...fully operational here ... |
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... and it will remain a 'Phantastic
Phantom Phorever' as you can see here. 'Happy crew'! |
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...the machine is a two-seat twin engined
all weather long range supersonic jet interceptor / fighter / bomber... |
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... no wonder this older concept is still
in use ! |
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... Once this machine was the successor
of the F-86 Sabre... |
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... it's nickname is also the 'Mig-Killer'
because during the Vietnam war it busted many Mig-17 and also Mig 21's |
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Turkish Airforce showed a fly-past with
several types of the inventory, here these 'Phabulous Phantoms' |
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As fas as we know this type of aircraft
is still in use in Egypt, Iran, South-Korea, some in Germany, |
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... and ofcourse in Turkey and Greece. |
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Well, back to us for a moment, as you can
see Press was treated heavenly, seats, tables, laptops inside... |
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... al ingredients to make these days
actually unforgettable. Flypast of three T-37 Cessna 'Tweet's |
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The Croatian show-team is starting up....
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.... and the F-16's fly their part of the
once held (only saturday's) fly-past of all inventory. |
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Bye guys, next is coming up, your 'bigger
brother' the F-16D 07-1015 |
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It's a full show, mighty view ! |
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Author Kees Otten (left with cap),
Wim Das (m) and Koos Heemskerk (l) take a break. (Redaction/Photographers) |
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The 'Tweet' comes along... |
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Romanian IAR-99C SOIM gives 'acte
de presence' |
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The Soim is a reliable trainer in the
Hawk class... |
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Service teams, Fire Brigade and Fuel
supply |
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Spanish demo-team Patrouille Aguila
starts up in the heatwaves... |
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They fly the CASA 101 Aviojet |
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You would'nt say so, but this plane can
reach a speed of 770 km/hr... |
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... and it has a ceiling of almost 13
kilometers altitude. Nice job !!! Let the crowd applause ! |
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