A bit late, but worth being posted as I see it ….
Thanks to bunt, Maudit and Levente for posting the information about this open day. In the past years I only learned about this event after it had happened. With a tough time limitation and trying to ‘stay within a reasonable budget’ I went DUS-BUD Friday evening, 6 hours drive, sleep on the parking lot ended abrupt as a SOCAT SA.330 flew loowww over my car, later in the afternoon 6 hours back to Budapest, heading back home very early next morning.
And in between? 4 hours of absolute and pure fun! Hot and sunny weather, 10:00 to 14:00 flying program with the Dacian Eagle F-15’s and Romanian Air Force, nothing else. And they did well! 2 missions of the Eagles, practicing take-off-by-gears-in, simulated approaches and very low passes. Mixed formations with the MiGs, various solo displays and more formations, ending with an air power demo.
What I also really liked was that the air power demo ended with the SA.330s landing in the grass behind the taxiway, crews came out. 8 ladders were lined up by 2 ground crew members and a child each, the 8 MiGs then lined up on the taxiway in front of the crowds. So not only planes and pilots got applause, but many people who had made this demo and the flying displays possible. A great show for the local people, but not only.
All in all: congratulations to the organizers of this small but excellent event!!
Some photos below, and here are ‘the numbers’:
MiG.21MF Lancer C: 5834, 5917, 6105, 6203, 6518, 6607, 6840 all flew, 9611 static
MiG.21UM Lancer B: 172, 9516 – both flew
IAR.99: 707 static, 701, 703, 704, 708, 709 – all flew, plus a 2nd 4-ship**
Yak.52: 24, 30, 38, 40, 42, 43 all flew (+ LY-WAA, LY-WAW)
C-27J: 2701, 2704 – both arrived, 270_ flew solo, a 3rd one landed while I was heading out on the motorway
F-15C: 83-0018, 84-0016, 84-0028, 85-0101, 85-0118, 85-0122, 85-0125 marked ‘104FW’, all coded MA, 131st FS MA-ANG,
80-0018, 84-0014 marked ’144FW‘, plus F-15D 85-0129 all 194th FS CA-ANG
Alouette III: 39, 122 – both flew
SA.330: 02, 06, 60, 61, 66, 78, 87, 90, 92 – all parked, mostly also flew
Mi.8PS: 730 – flew
The unidentified IAR.99s flew just before the 2nd 4-ship, did not return after their only flypast
Some of the stored MiG.21M/MF Lancer A were identified from outside as follows:
071, 3001, 3002, 3003, 6003, 6421, 6707 (unconfirmed), 9615, 9702, 9703, 9808, 3170 (unconfirmed), plus 39__, 861_, 30_3, 67_2
And not to forget, MiG.21M Lancer a 807 is preserved at the roundabout towards Luna.
Regards
Martin
ps:
I just wanted to add a few photos, to find that jpg and jpeg are not allowed .... and bmp have ridiculous file size
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