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Le Addeur noir is correct. The Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) negotiations concentrated on 126 Rafales + 63 optional. Of these the first 18 would be built in France and the rest was to be assembled/license built in India. The main discussion point was that India wanted Dassault to be resp...

The answer here (Le Monde) : http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/04/10/l-inde-commande-36-avions-de-chasse-rafale-a-la-france_4614097_3234.html Outre cette commande « sur étagère » d'appareils fabriqués en France, Paris et New Delhi se sont « engagés » à poursuivre leurs négociations pour la...

Hi all, I'm trying out how Flickr works, so this is a try to share a picture on this forum. It's a shot of one of the last Mirage F1CTs on the platform of Mont de Marsan airbase, just a few months before being withdrawn from operational service in October of 2012. Note the mechanic performing post f...

Here's another video : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cdwv ... lanka_news

It appears to be SCM-864 from No 2 sqn.

If I'm not mistaken F-BUAD left Bordeaux Mérignac for the last time this morning.
It flew its last flight as zero-G last week. No more parabolic flights for this A300...

Don't you mean speedbrakes?

euh.... no
In the link he refers to the markings and bullet holes. If you look at the second picture, you'll see the holes above the tactical code 118-NC. These are for the stairs.

As far as I know the 21st is for Air Force personnel and family and the 22nd is for the general public.

These are the holes where the stairs go, nothing to do with bullets ...

Paul van der Linden wrote:Hi Erwin,

I don't want to spoil your day but as I understood the Skyhawks were grounded already sometime ago, even before the first M-346 was delivered. I hope that somebody can prove that I am wrong though!

Greetings, Paul

Skyhawks stopped flying in the last quarter of 2012.

Regards,

Jan

Great shots of a very nice event !

Gezellig met zijn allen in een herc! Gaaf dat de Brazilianen dat nog steeds willen organiseren! En voor wat betreft die hele discussie over spotter, fotograaf, pers-spotter... Misschien een idee om op te houden met dat hokjesgedrag... dan is het allemaal een stuk makkelijker en de rest van de wereld...

Hi Piet,
Nice panning and great burner on the Tornado !
Jan

Nice set Peter !!
Great to see some banking shots of the bigger planes, like the Il-76/78.

Best regards,

Jan

Not to start a very long discussion here, but doesn't this thread belong in the Tattle lounge ?

There's not a single news related fact in this post, it's just guessing about the possible events that will follow in the coming days/ weeks...

Regards,

Jan

Nice set and thanks for sharing !

Next time use a lager lens and look around you.

How does that work? Is that a lens sponsored by Heineken or Carlsberg?

Regards,

Jan