Dat is SICKAntilliaan wrote:Gaaf spul zeg in deze topic! Heb vanavond eens even zitten bladeren en genoten. Wat me eerlijk gezegd echt verbaast is dat deze foto nog niet aan de orde is gekomen; velen zullen deze toch wel kennen, wat mij betreft een absolute klassieker:
de Guatemala air force A-37 die op Aviation Day 1972 op La Aurora over het publiek ragt, ik schat op ongeveer 1 meter boven de hoofden...
The credit goes to "GAF Archives, via Francisco Rizzo - LAAHS"
How the team was born
In 1966 Major Bill Ongena, who was the official demonstration F-104 pilot of the Belgian AF and incidentally also one of the original members of the Acrobobs aerobatic team (precursor of the Red Devils team) flying Meteor F.8, was promoted to a new function in the national defence office. He was succeeded by Captain François "Susse" Jacobs, who had been part of the Red Devils demo team while they flew the Hawker Hunter.
Unfortunately Susse lost his life soon after taking up the assignment. On the 2 September 1968, during the taking of an episode of the French television series "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" something went wrong during a "touch-roll-touch-and-go" manoeuvre and Susse was killed in spite of a last-minute ejection.
After this crash the General Staff of the Belgian AF banned all demos on the F-104. Only after lengthy discussions with the concerned authorities and a lot of personal efforts by Colonel Paul De Wulf, CO of Beauvechain AB and another of the original members of the Acrobobs aerobatic team, permission was granted to re-start the demo flying with the Starfighter.
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