Alpnach + Buochs 03-04-2008

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Alpnach + Buochs 03-04-2008

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On the fith day of our Switserland trip we woke up at Meiringen, but it was again raining. After asking the the security guy if he could photo to the tower to know if they were flying that day at Meiringen, we understood that all day long, no flying would take place at Meiringen. No problem, we went to Alpnach (45 minutes driving) There it was also very quiet. We saw a cougar and alouette III doing some enginetests. Also an alouette III took off, and then suddenly 3 cougars in formation came in for landing, very impressing sight. The last cougar landed just in front of us before the small spottershill at about 15m away from the runway!!! The cougar turned around his axis just in front of us, but due to too much downwind of the helicopter, we weren't able to make pictures :lol: We had to cary ourselves to the metal bar of the spottershill, now I understand why they installed a metal bar over there :lol:

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Around noon we descided to have a look at Buochs airfield, just at the other side of the mountain. We saw 2 testflights of one of the Singaporian Air Force PC-21's, one testflight of the PC-21 of the Pilatus company, some PC-12's that arrived and departed. So we saw some nice and special trafic. When the aircraft come from the factory, the have to cross a public road, so you can find situations where you don't find it elsewere in Europe :wink: No fences at Buochs airfield, so very easy to make pictures.

Here are some pictures we took that day:

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Afther Buochs, we went to the mirage center for the black and white Mirage IIIRS, and to Wolfenschiessen for an other preserved Mirage IIIRS

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More pictures can be found on http://www.sgkoksijde.be
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