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wow, the pic in front of the Yak brings back memories, isn't the Russian guy the infamous "Oberst Belyakov"??
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Yup... it is him... would do anything for cash and goodies, but what a nice museum they had there in Wunstorf HQ.

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11E wrote:Yep, but that is a photo. I have the negatives somewere in a box in the garage. I will look for them and try to scan it.

That amount of cigarsmoke was amazing :lol: , Al Gore would have a heart attack when he had seen that!

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Hayward, 18-11-1992 Hans v/d V. and marcel F. with a former Mexican T-28

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Mildenhall, 27-07-1991, Chris H. and Michel van R. I believe this trip was called ''coronet Trumpet''. All longer trips had codenames :mrgreen:
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Kolobrzeg, 01-05-1992, Dimitri S., Lesley, Ron D. trying to read Russian Mi-24s and Mi-8s.

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Overloon, 10-03-1991, Marcel F in a German minisub
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Praag-Kbely, 14-09-1991, Lesley, Chris S and Ron D by an Il-28RTR

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Mexicali, 21-11-1992, Lesley, Hans and Chris eating a taco in Mexico
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The two ?? under de Praag-Letnany picture are Ronald de Ridder and René Schaddelee.

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Sosua, april 1992, my spottingbuddy in the Dominican Rep. during the day, in the evening my diner.
That's the trip with the big hairy spider in your room, right :wink:

Nice pics again, I remember that the very first trip to Czechoslovakia was on 10/09/1988 when two cars visited the Kbely Airshow, our first meeting with Russian hardware.

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Trueno wrote:Nice pics again, I remember that the very first trip to Czechoslovakia was on 10/09/1988 when two cars visited the Kbely Airshow, our first meeting with Russian hardware.
I remember from this trip, that just after passing the Czechoslovak border we were sleeping in a parking-lot and in the middle of the night we were woken up by the sound of a terrible carcrash. :shock:

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For those of you who remember Leo 'Balthasar' Dor(t?)land (big guy from Zeist, 'active' at Soesterberg at least between 1978 and 1981): he was on the '8 uur journaal' this evening as a Flevoland police force spokesman. See http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen ... pagne.html. Geinig.

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Gerard wrote:I remember from this trip, that just after passing the Czechoslovak border we were sleeping in a parking-lot and in the middle of the night we were woken up by the sound of a terrible carcrash. :shock:

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Yep, you are right, must be horrible as the sound of crunching metal was clearly heard by us all..... if I remember well some went out for checking out :ohmy:

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Yes Trueno that was the trip with the (in my eyes) giant tropical spider which ran under my bed and hide there :shock:

About the first trip to Czechoslovakia, I remember to ''sleep'' (it was horrible cold with my type of sleeping bag) with Trueno in a tent and hearing the crash. We went out of the tent and looked along the road but nothing was seen. Next morning we found nothing. I think others found him by now.....

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been some 8th months since the last post,

two from our trip to RAF Mildenhall '89 airshow,

saturday after the airshow, pizza hut london,

from left to right, Henry Gerssen , Roel Reijne, Rick Versteegh,

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During the airshow, salute....

from left to right,

Rick Versteegh, hans v/d Vlist, Henry Gerssen,

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just realize more that 20 years ago.... :shock: :shock:
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Hi Roel,

Any chance for that DVD with the higher quality images before christmas 2010? ;-)

Regards,

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