Guys, planning on going to Albacete for the TLP2012-6 mission. So far no reports of participating aircraft?
Would be my first time there, does anyone have tips/suggestions on where to go best to see both active, as well as stored and preserved aircraft??
Piet, the French Alpha's carry the 102 code from Dijon, you mention 120 in your list. Today also a RAF Tornado stood on the ramp, code is "031". Also two extra Spangdahlem F-16's are present. Today's mission seemed to be scrubbed, allthough a few aircraft took off in a wave late afternoon around 15.30h. At least the Italian Typhoons, Italian Tornado's, French Alpha's, Mirage's and Etendard took off together with Belgian Vipers. The Polish and US birds remained on the ground.
Further more it was a long boring day, two Mirage F-1's taxied to the runway at 09.30h but returned to the HAS area then it was dead quiet until around 12:00pm when a French Transall (R223/64-GW) arrived. Between 12.20 and 13.30h two EF-2000's and two F-1's flew and then again nothing until the take off of the TLP birds.
A Casa 101, Mirage F-1 and EF-2000 were seen doing engine tests. That's all the activity (except some civil stuff) for a day. With all the stored aircraft it was still a nice day but a little disappointing that not all the TLP a/c flew and we had offcourse hope for somewhat more local heroes!
About local heroes, we positioned ourselves at the parking lot of the terminal and the morning shift of the Guardia Civil had no problems with us standing there and taking pictures but the afternoon shift sent us away after taking copies of our passports and asked us to delete the memory cards.
