Wings & Wheels Airshow at Ysterplaat

Sat 10 December 2011

Last Saturday Ysterplaat Airbsase held their annual airshow; it wasn’t on the same epic scale as last year’s AAD but was still loads of fun.

Silver Falcons   Saab JAS-39 Gripen C

The programme opened with a police cavalcade and included all the usual things you’d expect at an airshow – big planes (Dakota, flybys from commercial airliners), little planes (RVs, Pitts Special), jets (L39s, Jet Provost), helicopters (Lynx, Oryx, Agusta) fighter jets (Gripen, Hawk) and pretty displays complete with smoke from the Silver Falcons (and the L39s).

Silver Falcons

There were also cars, both on display and doing a rally and gymkhana – I didn’t really check them out though apart from the ones that came out on the runway and some of the ones in the hangars…

There really weren’t a lot of people compared to what I was expecting (and compared to AAD last year), and the announcements/commentary were only audible to one area of the crowd which was unfortunate. Luckily I happened to be in said area when they introduced the group of Swedish Gripen pilots who were down for a conference and were watching our Gripen fly.

Swedish Gripen pilotsI get stupidly excited anytime I’m in the vaguest proximity to anything Swedish, so when the flock of Swedish fighter pilots walked past us after the show, it was almost too much for me to bear…

Major Magnus Olssen and other Swedish Gripen pilots

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Airshows are my mom’s area of expertise – check out her photos over here.

My photos are up on facebook over here.

 

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3 Responses to Wings & Wheels Airshow at Ysterplaat

  1. James Stewart says:

    Super fotos Irene, thanks for the images they are GREAT !!!! Wish I could have been there … next time I will bring a Posse to appreciate :-)))))) Many Thanks again

  2. Gene says:

    Rigpig posted the link – great photo’s as usual.
    Regards
    Gene

  3. Very nice blog! Keep up the good work!

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