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guustafo77
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Here 10 of mine in random order.

1. The year started on a cold but beautiful January day at Eindhoven.
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3. St. Dizier, not the best shot but my first Singaporean skyhawk :D
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5. Koksijde
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6. The highlight for me (and many others I guess) was the show at Izmir
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9. Nice weather at KLU Open days Leeuwarden
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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My Top 10 of 2011 in random order. Locations were Izmir, Leeuwarden and Lelystad.
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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The year started with a trip to RAF Mildenhall for an air to air refueling mission with 100th ARW
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In March I was fortunate enough to fly with the Portuguese Air Force Academy DHC-1 Chipmunks
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The second day in Portugal was spent with Escuadra 101, flying the TB-30 Epsilon.
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I was invited to fly with the Slovenian Air Arms Helicopter Squadron during an exercise with the Hungarian Air Force in June. Unfortunately the exercise got cancelled. Cerklje ob Kriki proved to be a good alternative.
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Final trip of the year; Bulgaria. Old russian hardware...nice!
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Merry Christmas and a happy new year for you all!
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Here is my Top 10 of 2011 in chronological order. For me, 2011 was a year with more historical aircraft then jet noise:

1. Reims 22.03.2011

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2. Reims 22.03.2011

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3. Cambrai Tiger Meet Spottersday 16.05.2011

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4. Cambrai Tiger Meet Spottersday 16.05.2011

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5. Antwerpen-Deurne Stampe Fly-in 04.06.2011

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6. Oostmalle Warbird Fly-in 20.08.2011

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7. Hahnweide Oldtimer Fly-in 03.09.2011

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8. Hahnweide Oldtimer Fly-in 03.09.2011

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9. Leeuwarden Open Dagen Spottersdag 15.09.2011

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10. Ginkelse Heide Market Garden Memoral 17.09.2011

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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

Post by P.Terlouw »

Always difficult to make a selection but are are 10 of mine:

1. Neuburg
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2. MiG-21 at Plovdiv
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3. Thunderbird no.5 at Izmir
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4. Flare shooting A-10 at Osan
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5. Japanese Chinook making a pass at Naha, Okinawa
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6. Pakistani JF-17 at Izmir
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I7. F-15 landing at Kadena,Okinawa
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8. T-50B of the Black Eagles taking off at Seongnam
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9. Polish Viper at Cambrai.
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10. some nice Chinese fighters in Datangshan, China
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Wow Peter,

you have travelled the world in 2011 :) . My favourite is your Mig-21 shot at Plovdiv. It could set fire to the grass :lol: .

Grtz,

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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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This is my top of 2011 until now....

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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Very nice pictures everyone. On the 2nd of January 2011 i bought an 2nd hand 50D that was my main camera this year. I I took a lot of pictures this year so it was a bit difficult to select an Top 10.

10. The year that i went to LHR for the first time
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9.What's a Top10 without an A380
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8.The year that i took my first nightshots at CDG
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7.A picture that i like because of the great wingflex from the 777
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6.Foggy conditions on a early morning at LFPO
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5.Eva Air send in their specials many times this year, this one was special for me because of the lovely light
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4.Not only nr4 is a Qatar ;-)
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3.Was so happy with capturing this Dash at Zurich in great lightconditions
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2.The year that i went to Zurich and lucky i catched this beauty witch unfortunatly isn't here anymore.
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1.Qatar Cargo in beautiful light is my nr.1
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Probably one of my most favorite topics each year is this top 10 list of everyone participating. I very much enjoy the variety in aircraft, locations and compositions shown here by fellow aviation enthousiasts. Thanks everyone!

My list, starting in January and working my way down to the end of this year:

1. Shadow61 on January 10 at De Kooy
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2. Took one day off from skiing in the Swiss Alps to visit Meiringen on February 17
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3. Tigermeet on May 11
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4. MTHR 15 celebrated her 40th anniversary at Rheine-Bentlage on July 01
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5. The Thunderbirds performed on several shows in Europe among which was Koksijde on July 06
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6. Had some foggy times at Schiphol as well. Kaagbaan in the early morning of July 28
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7. Luckily the weather during the Air-2-Air Academy was great
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8. And it was not all about Air-2-Air
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9. A non standard Schiphol night shot
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10. To end where my list started: Lynx 279 at the dummy deck
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I tried to create an overview of my 2011 Aviation year and had to make some choices, that's why, for instance, I left both days at Leeuwarden out of this overview. Hope everyone enjoyed my view on 2011 and happy shooting to all for 2012!

Greetz,
Hans.
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Some great pictures here!

My pictures in random order:

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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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Amazing pictures guys. I'm gonna make myself part of the topic. In random order:

#1 Shutterspeed 1/8 with a 40D. A wet night, but cosy as well :mrgreen:
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#2 T7 gear
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#3 Sunrise in august, foggy
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#4 Schiphol east @ sunset
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#5 And ... gone!
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#6 BAM! Smokey touchdown.
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#7 Another sunset
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#8 Kaagbaanknol
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#9 Flapless landing Delta A330
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#10 It's in my list because of what it represents. Goodbye passenger airliner Martinair...
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Happy holidays all,

Regards,
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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really like the smokey touchdown, nr 6 Feike! very nice.
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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my ten of this year,
hard to pick them out.
random order,
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riat 2011, lost of rain on saturday...

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tigermeet Cambrai,

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leeuwarden airshow,

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panorama of two pic's Oceana airshow,

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Oceana airshow,
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Oceana airshow,
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Oceana airshow,

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Oceana airshow, was also domintated by lots of rain, and very humid conditions , so the
good side of that is that we had lots of vapour

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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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didn't do that much spotting this year.
highlight for me was my trip to Texas and New Mexico

not in specific order :

preserved F-4s in Texas
32 to choose from.

Ft Worth, F-4D MIG-killer
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the most ultimate way to preserve a beautiful aircraft like the F-4 is to keep her flying.
The Collings Foundation does a great job in that.
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walking on the ramp at Holloman AFB, Det1 82nd ATRS...... HEAVEN !!!
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nice visit to Sheppard AFB
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Luxembourg Air Rescue in my backyard.
Pilot had no rush (patient went to hospital by ambulance), so he had time to pose for me....
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Re: Your Top 10 of 2011

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[quote="Bjorn1979"]Very nice pictures everyone. On the 2nd of January 2012 i bought an 2nd hand 50D witch was my main camera this year.
According to my calender, January 2nd 2012 is a few days ahead of us.... 5 to be precise! :wink:
Never knew Canon users call their equipment 'witch'! :)

Happy 2012 :bday:

I I took a lot of pictures this year so it was a bit difficult to select an Top 10.
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