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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.
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One of my absolute favourite movies of all time. (Of course it's title doesn't hurt either). The best line in VR&B is — "I just wish to hell they'd paint these damn planes a nice drab brown... the English can see us a mile away."
Von Richthofen and Brown can be purchased online:
Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/Von-Richthofen-Brown-John-Phillip/dp/B000M...
Barnes & Noble:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-von-richthofen-and-brown-tom...
Oh, and by the way, unlike this photo, the film is in colour.
Codi von Richthofen,
The Red Baron Gallery ©
Fahti 42, 152 Filo sqn F-16 on short finals at RAF Waddington after an afternoon sortie during Cobra Warrior.
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to the Royal Netherlands Air Force on the static display at the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow.
A restored USAF P51 Mustang from WWII flying during the Warbirds demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It flew alongside an F4U Corsair and a P38 Lightning .
Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero Fighter (1940-45)
Production 10,939
AIRCRAFT SET
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The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" is a long-range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. It entered service in 1940 and upon introduction was considered to have been the most capable carrier-based fighter combining excellent maneuverability and very long range, it was also frequently used as a land based fighter. But by mid-1942 with new allied aircraft and tactics it had become less formidable.By 1944, with opposing Allied fighters approaching its levels of maneuverability and consistently exceeding its firepower, armour, and speed, the A6M had largely become outdated as a fighter aircraft. However, as design delays and production difficulties hampered the introduction of newer Japanese aircraft models, the Zero continued to serve in a front-line role until the end of the war in the Pacific. During the final phases, it was also adapted for use in kamikaze operations
The Zero was used to attack Pearl Harbour on the 7th December 1941, outclassing every allied fighter plane. Its supremecy was finally broken in 1943 by the new F6F Hellcat and by 1944 Zeros were being used in Kamikaze attacks on allied shipping.
This cockpit was built around 1944, nothing is known of its service history and it is thought that it was captured in 1945 and evaluated by Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit - South east Asia. It was transferred to the Museum by the RAF in 1961
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Shot 23:09:2015 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire - Ref 110-534
Gloster Meteor jet fighter running up for take off at Church Fenton air-field, Yorkshire. This aircraft is a night fighter version of the Meteor.
Thorpe Park shortly after opening, and one of the fine collection of World War 1 replica aircraft assembled there at the time. I don't know a DIII from a DV so I'll leave that to the experts. An even more dangerous Fokker DVII can be seen lurking in the background.
An enprint from a lost negative.
Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame SLR.
Off-Airport - Valdosta
Pendleton Park
Valdosta, GA
North American F-86L-50-NA Sabre (NA-190) c/n 190-782, 52-10057 / FU-057 / MY, United States Air Force
Pictured here where she stood for fifty years, looking a little faded, but still presentable. On April 24, 2012, this old Sabre was removed from her plinths, and transported back to nearby Moody AFB to be prepared for a new display there. Newly repainted, the aircraft was dedicated in a ceremony on April 27, 2013, at the "George W Bush Airpark" at Moody AFB.
Originally built as an F-86D-50-NA, modified as an F-86L under Project Follow-On, with modifications notably including the ability to use the SAGE datalink network for ground controlled interception.
A restored USAF P51 Mustang from WWII flying during the Warbirds demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It flew alongside an F4U Corsair and a P38 Lightning .
@ Koksijde Airshow 2007
This plane is since 2011 flying for the Royal Jordanian Air Force with registration 153
An F-22 Raptor performs during the 2009 Atlantic City Air Show "Thunder Over the Boardwalk" on Wednesday August 19, 2009.
Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen was a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. The A6M was usually referred to by the Allies as the "Zero", from the
Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter' designation. The official Allied reporting codename was Zeke.
When it was introduced early in World War II, the Zero was the best carrier-based fighter in the world, combining excellent maneuverability and very long range. In early combat operations, the Zero gained a legendary reputation as a "dogfighter", achieving the outstanding kill ratio of 12 to 1, but by 1942 a combination of new tactics and the introduction of better American planes enabled the US and Allied pilots to engage the Zero on more equal terms.
The Japanese also frequently used the type as a land-based fighter. By 1943, inherent design weaknesses and the increasing lack of more powerful aircraft engines meant that the Zero became less effective against newer enemy fighters that possessed greater firepower, armor, and speed, and approached the Zero's maneuverability. Outdated by 1944, it was never totally supplanted by the newer Japanese aircraft types. During the final years of the War in the Pacific, the Zero was used in kamikaze operations. In the course of the war, 10,939 Zeros were built, more than any other Japanese aircraft. Yet, very few remain in the world.
Personal note: when I carried out an electrical engineering project as a supplier to Mitsubishi Electric in the 1990s, representatives of that company pretended not to know anything about this famous plane.
Off-Airport - Valdosta
Pendleton Park
Valdosta, GA
North American F-86L-50-NA Sabre (NA-190) c/n 190-782, 52-10057 / FU-057 / MY, United States Air Force
Pictured here where she stood for fifty years, looking a little faded, but still presentable. On April 24, 2012, this old Sabre was removed from her plinths, and transported back to nearby Moody AFB to be prepared for a new display there. Newly repainted, the aircraft was dedicated in a ceremony on April 27, 2013, at the "George W Bush Airpark" at Moody AFB.
Originally built as an F-86D-50-NA, modified as an F-86L under Project Follow-On, with modifications notably including the ability to use the SAGE datalink network for ground controlled interception.
2013 National Day Parade Combined Rehearsal 6/National Education Show 3, viewed from Bay East Garden, Singapore
The national flag flypast, prior to This Is Home. Performed by the good ol' CH-47 Chinook, with twin AH-64D Longbow Apaches at its flanks.
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North American P51D Mustang, 'Ferocious Frankie' in flight at the Yorkshire Airshow, Church Fenton, UK.
The Fokker DVII was for many people the best German fighter plane of the Great War. The Fokker DVII was produced from 1918 to 1928. 3200 of these planes where produced.
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
North American F-86 Sabre
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
Heritage Flight
Nellis Air Force Base
Las Vegas Valley, NV
Grumman F-14A 162594 VF-111 Sundowner. Captain Rick 'Wigs' Ludwig and back seater Kevin 'Soy' Roe. 2002 aircraft crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, pilots minor injuries.
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SB80 DX in Westcott 43" Apollo Orb on Boomed overhead.
A US Navy E/A18G Growler flying during the Growler demo at the 2025 Abbotsford Airshow. It was loud and the pilots didn't hold back. I can still hear the afterburners when I look at these shots.
Wikipedia:
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the similar looking MiG-15 of the Korean War. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.
MiG-17s first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and later proved to be an effective threat against more modern supersonic fighters of the United States in the Vietnam War.
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to the Royal Netherlands Air Force on the static display at the 2022 Abbotsford Airshow.
R-2118 of fighter squadron 10 (Fliegerstaffel 10), stationed at Buochs airfield in Switzerland between 1965 and 2003.
This model in 1/32 scale is based on ILARAK Solutions' excellent design, whose instructions I bought.
After having built the model initially following the instructions, I have made quite some changes to the design to better represent the real aircraft with the identification R-2118:
- The first and main alteration was to move the wheels of the main landing gear outwards to represent the real Mirage's design. I also added landing gear bay covers to the struts.
- The nose landing gear now is much sleeker.
- Smoothed out the underside of the aircraft and added several details like vents. At the same time I was able to add representations of the two DEFA 30 mm cannons.
- Smoothed out the shaping around the cockpit and incorporated a new glass design.
- More detailed engine nozzle and vertical stabilizer.
- More realistic fragmentation of the control surfaces on the trailing edge of the wing.
- Slightly smoothed out the camo scheme.
- Added various under wing details like antennae and payload.
The landing gear is still fully functional, with the little drawback that with my chosen solution, the wheels are no longer able to rotate.
The under wing and fuselage details consist of (beginning at the wing tips):
- 2 x Radar warning antennae
- 2 x AIM-9B Sidewinder for self defense
- 2 x external fuel tank
- 2 x 4 JATO rockets for short take-off from partially destroyed runways
- Centerline reconnaissance pod
The Swiss Mirage III S and RS are a derivative of the French Mirage III, with "S" standing for Switzerland and "RS" for reconnaissance. Most of the Swiss Mirages were built in Switzerland under license. Changes over the French original included US avionics (thus the Sidewinder), reinforced structure for JATO take-offs and duck vanes added with combat value increase program.
There were 18 Mirages of the RS variant, numbered R-2101 to R-2118, with my model representing the last of the series. They featured four optical cameras in the nose section that could be equiped with different lenses and placed at different angles. Each camera had a film roll for 360 frames.
R-2118 carried the nickname "Mata Hari", the famous Dutch female spy of World War I. The name is painted on the left side of the cockpit section together with an owl.
Mirage III RS R-2118 still exists and is on display at the Air Force Center in Dübendorf near Zurich, Switzerland. My model represents the loadout of the real aircraft as exhibited.
To better display the details of the underside and the working landing gear, I built a display stand that shows the plane during take-off.