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Hi Colin,kiwi wrote:I read the stories on the site posted earlier. Guess you are the guys that f*cked it up for my generation.. No hard feelings though, the movements today are not worth climbing over a fence onto military grounds
The accident happened on 31 december 1990 in East Germany. The exact place was Frankfurt am Oder near the Polish border. Inside the car (a brand new Open Vectra) were me, Ron Duurland, Lesley Delsing and .... van Kaathoven (not Peter).warthog64 wrote:Here are the accident pics....
the story Hans?
When on that site, also have a look at those movements from the 1960s, you don't have to understand Dutch to have a good time thereHans van der Vlist wrote:If you can read Dutch, please visit
http://home.tiscali.nl/sberg.sixties/An ... rhalen.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That's the site I was talking about Nice to read the stories but this illustrates clearly one of the reasons that the spotting place is no more and also why there is security like there is now. Now you can already get a warning for looking towards the hangars from 'het gashuisje', while it was no big deal in the 60's and a bit later even to get a great overview of the base as long as you stayed outside of the fence. I wish they hadn't put up those high sound walls (heuvels) around the base and chose a spot for the spottersplace where you can't see anything of the actual base. It's not like Soesterberg is some kind of Area51 where seeing infrastructure alone is a crime, especially now, cause it's relatively quiet on the base compared to other bases through the Netherlands and Europe.Hans van der Vlist wrote:Hi Colin,kiwi wrote:I read the stories on the site posted earlier. Guess you are the guys that f*cked it up for my generation.. No hard feelings though, the movements today are not worth climbing over a fence onto military grounds
I think it was not very common to climb over the Soesterberg fence in the 1980's to take picture's. The spot was already perfect, but sometimes somebody had to pick up the soccer ball
If you can read Dutch, please visit
http://home.tiscali.nl/sberg.sixties/An ... rhalen.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and read stories Kuil 1,2 and 3 about Soesterberg spotters in the 60's.
In the 60's people had NO big lenses ..........
Hans
They didn´t put these high walls there because of the "fun" we had there that times.kiwi wrote: ..........I wish they hadn't put up those high sound walls (heuvels) around the base and chose a spot for the spottersplace ...........
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