During my family holiday I visited the airfield of the Academia General del Aire twice. The T-35's fly from the old, short runway 05L 23R near the civil air terminal. The C101's and other aircraft use the main runway 05R 23L. On the western site ( 05 ) the viewing and photographic possibilities are awesome ( stepladder advised ). On the eastern site ( 23 ) the situation is worse because the runway and the Academia strech out into the sea. A lot of the C101's wear the colourscheme of the Patrulla aguila. It looks to me that when the aircraft of this team are switched they keep their display colours. The real active Patrulla aguila C101's can be recognized by means of a smoke injection pipe behind the exhaustnozzle. Beware of a hazard on the best spot for taking pictures at 05R. This is in the middle of a very active gay meeting place. So expect lot's of men passing by too many times looking for 'fresh meat'. My personal experience is that they use a very direct approach. As a heterosexual married man this situation was very inconvenient. On my second visit on July 16 I wore my camera very obvious and avoided eye contact. This seemed to work and holded of indecent proposals.
July 09, 2013
July 16, 2013