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A USAF F-35 Lightning II flying in the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. This was the plane that I most excited to see. The pilot put on an incredible demo too, she didn't hold back, showed off all the F-35 can do, and came close to breaking the sound barrier.
A USAF F-15 Eagle flying during the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. Thanks to it being an evening show, I got some good shots of the Eagle's afterburners.
The plane that I was most excited to see fly at the airshow this year! A restored Mikoyan Mig-17 Fresco flying during the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was unique to see this Cold War era jet. The Mig-17 was actually the most feared fighter plane for a time. No NATO fighters were able to beat it until the F4 Phantom II entered service in the 1960s. It was still cool to see and just as intimidating as it was back in it's prime.
Hornet J-5011 of fighter squadron 11, "Tigers" of the Swiss Air Force.
This model in scale 1:32 is based on the excellent Canadian CF-18 by Ryan Harris, whose building instructions I bought to create my Swiss version of a Hornet.
Like the Canadian CF-18s, the Swiss F/A-18s feature a search light on the left side of the fuselage in front of the cockpit. All the working features of Ryan's model can be found on my Hornet as well:
- Opening canopy
- Movable flaps, ailerons and elevators
- Deployable airbrake
- Lowering arrestor hook
- Stowable landing gear with working doors
After I built an initial version following the building instructions, I made quite some changes to Ryan's design to incorporate some more features and better represent the Swiss version of the F/A-18C. Changes I made include:
- All grey color scheme
- Complete redesign of the wings to incorporate folding wing tips
- Section in front of the cockpit features IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) antennae and a deployable refuelling probe
- Radar warning antennas behind the cockpit
- More detailed engine nozzles
- Extended starter rails and different armament
- Smaller details all around
My model represents the plane of the squadron leader of "Fliegerstaffel 11" or fighter squadron 11 with the immatriculation J-5011. The latter one is shortened to 011 on the forward fuselage.
Squadron 11 call themselves "Tigers" and so it is quite obvious that they regularly participate in the NATO Tiger Meet. The livery on the model shows the design of the 2011 edition of the Tiger Meet. The decals are from a supplier of waterslide decals for plastic models and are perfect to scale in 1:32.
The Hornet is shown in a typical configuration for air police service. The armament consists of a 20 mm M61A1 gatling gun, 2 AIM-9X Sidewinders on the wing tips and 2 AIM-120B AMRAAMs on the fuselage hardpoints. Furthermore a centerline fuel tank is carried which shows the standby frequency of 121.50 MHz.
The display base represents a section of taxi way, leading to runway 28 of the Meiringen air base, which is homebase to squadron 11.
A USAF F35 Lightning II performing during the Lightning demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was an awesome demo, it was cut short however due to technical problems. A warning light came on and the pilot had to land. That said she put on a good show, didn't hold back, and she nearly broke the sound barrier.
Old & New Fighter Planes ✈️ -
Practicing for 2019 Airshow
Practice Flights On Sunday
Tucson’s Davis-Monthan AFB
Seen from my backyard.
Central Tucson
Tucson, Arizona
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A Supermarine Spitfire MK.Vc sits caged inside the hanger. As new and pluck as the day she was built, she gets out and flies during the summer months.
Image details-
Supermarine Spitfire MkIa G-AIST (bottom)
Supermarine Spitfire MkIa G-CFGJ (Middle)
Supermarine Spitfire MkI G-CGUK (Top)
Hornet J-5011 of fighter squadron 11, "Tigers" of the Swiss Air Force.
This model in scale 1:32 is based on the excellent Canadian CF-18 by Ryan Harris, whose building instructions I bought to create my Swiss version of a Hornet.
Like the Canadian CF-18s, the Swiss F/A-18s feature a search light on the left side of the fuselage in front of the cockpit. All the working features of Ryan's model can be found on my Hornet as well:
- Opening canopy
- Movable flaps, ailerons and elevators
- Deployable airbrake
- Lowering arrestor hook
- Stowable landing gear with working doors
After I built an initial version following the building instructions, I made quite some changes to Ryan's design to incorporate some more features and better represent the Swiss version of the F/A-18C. Changes I made include:
- All grey color scheme
- Complete redesign of the wings to incorporate folding wing tips
- Section in front of the cockpit features IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) antennae and a deployable refuelling probe
- Radar warning antennas behind the cockpit
- More detailed engine nozzles
- Extended starter rails and different armament
- Smaller details all around
My model represents the plane of the squadron leader of "Fliegerstaffel 11" or fighter squadron 11 with the immatriculation J-5011. The latter one is shortened to 011 on the forward fuselage.
Squadron 11 call themselves "Tigers" and so it is quite obvious that they regularly participate in the NATO Tiger Meet. The livery on the model shows the design of the 2011 edition of the Tiger Meet. The decals are from a supplier of waterslide decals for plastic models and are perfect to scale in 1:32.
The Hornet is shown in a typical configuration for air police service. The armament consists of a 20 mm M61A1 gatling gun, 2 AIM-9X Sidewinders on the wing tips and 2 AIM-120B AMRAAMs on the fuselage hardpoints. Furthermore a centerline fuel tank is carried which shows the standby frequency of 121.50 MHz.
The display base represents a section of taxi way, leading to runway 28 of the Meiringen air base, which is homebase to squadron 11.
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A wonderful view of the Ford Works at Dagenham in Essex from a fascinating book issued by the Ford Motor Company of England to tell the story of the company's activities during WW2. The book, issued in 1946, is full of sketches and paintings by Helen McKie, an artist who produced a lot of 'Thames-side' material for the river boat operators, the General Steam Navigation Co., as well as commissions for the Southern Railway.
The view looks across the Thames jetty that allowed delivery of raw materials and the dispatch of finished goods towards the main works dominated by the then camouflaged generating station that, along with the iron foundry, formed the massive integrated vehicle production plant Ford had opened in 1931 on the marshes adjoining the River Thames. It replaced Ford's earlier UK factory at Trafford Park in Manchester.
The jetty view shows the major production units of the wartime economy - military vehicles, such as Bren Gun Carriers, and tractors - the Fordson tractor was one of the backbones of the huge increase in British food production that sustained the war effort and that was based on increasing mechanisation of agriculture at the time.
Hornet J-5011 of fighter squadron 11, "Tigers" of the Swiss Air Force.
This model in scale 1:32 is based on the excellent Canadian CF-18 by Ryan Harris, whose building instructions I bought to create my Swiss version of a Hornet.
Like the Canadian CF-18s, the Swiss F/A-18s feature a search light on the left side of the fuselage in front of the cockpit. All the working features of Ryan's model can be found on my Hornet as well:
- Opening canopy
- Movable flaps, ailerons and elevators
- Deployable airbrake
- Lowering arrestor hook
- Stowable landing gear with working doors
After I built an initial version following the building instructions, I made quite some changes to Ryan's design to incorporate some more features and better represent the Swiss version of the F/A-18C. Changes I made include:
- All grey color scheme
- Complete redesign of the wings to incorporate folding wing tips
- Section in front of the cockpit features IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) antennae and a deployable refuelling probe
- Radar warning antennas behind the cockpit
- More detailed engine nozzles
- Extended starter rails and different armament
- Smaller details all around
My model represents the plane of the squadron leader of "Fliegerstaffel 11" or fighter squadron 11 with the immatriculation J-5011. The latter one is shortened to 011 on the forward fuselage.
Squadron 11 call themselves "Tigers" and so it is quite obvious that they regularly participate in the NATO Tiger Meet. The livery on the model shows the design of the 2011 edition of the Tiger Meet. The decals are from a supplier of waterslide decals for plastic models and are perfect to scale in 1:32.
The Hornet is shown in a typical configuration for air police service. The armament consists of a 20 mm M61A1 gatling gun, 2 AIM-9X Sidewinders on the wing tips and 2 AIM-120B AMRAAMs on the fuselage hardpoints. Furthermore a centerline fuel tank is carried which shows the standby frequency of 121.50 MHz.
The display base represents a section of taxi way, leading to runway 28 of the Meiringen air base, which is homebase to squadron 11.
Taken in Pensacola, Florida, USA at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. The F4F Wildcat was a carrier-based fighter used by the US Navy in WWII. It was introduced in 1940 by Grumman.
A Canadair MK-6. V Sabre (Serial # 23649) in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, along the St. Lawrence River.
More popularly known as the Golden Hawks Sabre Jet, this single-engine jet fighter was designed by North American Aviation Inc. and produced in Canada by Canadair Ltd. between 1950 and 1958 and was first flown on October 1, 1947.
It became the dominant Western fighter aircraft in the early 1950s and was used by the U.S. Air Force in Korea against MiG-15s. It also served with the RCAF in Europe in its commitment to NATO. It reached supersonic speeds in dives - first achieved in Canada by test pilot Al Lilly, in 1950 when he broke the sound barrier. They were flown by the RCAF's Golden Hawks aerobatic team from 1959 to 1964.
Off-Airport - WaKeeney
Eisenhower Park
WaKeeney, KS
Grumman F-14A-105-GR Tomcat (G-303) c/n 354, 160925, United States Navy
A strange place to find a Tomcat, a small town in rural western Kansas. Masked off like she was in the middle of a repaint that stopped halfway through.
Adventures into the Unknown / Heft-Reihe
Prehistoric Island!
cover: Kurt Schaffenberger
American Comics Group / USA 1961
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
A USAF Boeing F-15 Eagle on the static display at the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. It amazes me that the Eagle is still flying after fifty years, that it's still in production, and air forces around the globe are still ordering new ones. This was one of two F-15s that took part in the show, one flew later on.
A second RCAF CF-18 Hornet performing the CF-18 Demo in the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. It cool seeing the demo at night, the Hornet's afterburners could be fully seen. It was a loud demo too, the pilot didn't hold back.
Camera Info:
Canon 5d Mark II w/ 24-70mm 2.8 L
ƒ2.8 | 1/160| ISO 250
Strobist info:
SB80 DX at 1/64th Power in Westcott 43" Apollo Orb on Boomed overhead.
Old & New Fighter Planes ✈️
Practicing for 2019 Airshow
Tucson’s Davis-Monthan AFB
Seen from my backyard.
Central Tucson
Tucson, Arizona
Tags:
"United States Air Force" "Old And New" "Fighter Planes" Practicing "Flying Together" "Precision Flying" "Pattern Flying" Flight "Davis-Monthan AFB" "My Backyard" "Central Tucson" Tucson Arizona USA "Southwestern USA" "American Southwest" "North America" "Western Hemisphere" "My Backyard" Exciting Thrilling Dramatic "Partial Overcast" Sky Clouds "Aircraft Spotting"
Local call number: DM1862
Title: Dale M. McDonald at Key West Naval Air Station with Cuban MIG-21 after its pilot defected
Date: September 18, 1993
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - col. - 35 mm.
Series Title: Dale M. McDonald Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/99193
The RCAF CF-18 Hornet demo during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. The Cf-18s are now due to be replaced by the new CF-35 Lightnings by 2027 making this years airshow one of the last few times that they'll be at Abbotsford. It'll be sad to see them go when they're finally retired.
A second RCAF CF-18 Hornet performing the CF-18 Demo in the evening show of the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow. It cool seeing the demo at night, the Hornet's afterburners could be fully seen. It was a loud demo too, the pilot didn't hold back.
Val-Halla, piloted by Greg Anders, makes smooth flybys up at the Heritage Flight Museum. She hasn't lost a step yet at 75+ years young.
Val-Halla is owned by Maj. Gen Anders and lives at his Heritage Flight Museum in Washington State.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 F fighter planes from the German Luftwaffe on the airfield of Brias (Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Pas-de-Calais), ca. 1941.
Collection of World War II photography from Piet Van Brabant.
The Royal Jordanian Falcons (صقور الأردن الملكية) are the national aerobatic demonstration team of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. They were displaying at Old Warden (The Shuttleworth Collection) on the 7th July 2019.
I spotted this little brass Spitfire model (wingspan just under 6 inches) lying in the bottom of a cabinet in a second hand shop. It had no stand and no propeller but its proportions looked so good that I bought it.
I have made a stand from some left over timber and a long bolt that fitted the socket on the underside. I ordered a Perspex disc to replace the missing propeller and have temporarily used an upholstery tack to hold that in place until I find something that suits it better.
Work in progress.