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Oh that is one heck of a great report! (I don't like the one tilted pic, however different or 'artistic' it may be meant. :-) But that is a matter of taste, of course). Stephan Ha ha! I'm not even sure I like it myself but I was looking at them for that long during a gap I just started messing abou...

During w/c 14th May saw the Finnish Airforce hold its annual open doors style events to demonstate its people and machinary in action. Having been to a few of these before, this was the first time in at least 10 years when all four were held on consecutive days, even if this did cause some serious d...

Thank you all very much for the kind comments. Such a shame for those out there this week about Axalp

Glad you enjoyed,

Kevin
http://www.flickr.com/kevinmartin1

Hi all, Just back in the UK from a week long stay in Switzerland that nicely coincided with the airbase at Meiringen taking part in the large scale exercise Stabante. Beautiful weather, apart from one day and plenty of flying from 8am until 10pm from the large contingent of F-5’s, F-18’s and PC-7 tr...

Terve Kevin, Is it possible to see anything from the outside at Tampere and Rovaniemi? I will fly to Tampere next week and we stay in a cottage just south from Rovaniemi. Maybe I will visit the base for a few hours instead of fishing in the lakes. grtzz Rogier To answer a couple of questions; Most ...

Hi All, Some photo’s taken from what now seems to be for me an annual visit to Finland . I spent the week travelling to just about all four corners of the country to visit several airbases both inside and out, as well as one or two other locations too. Weather for the week was all over the place but...

Hi Menno, Wim All the pictures were taken from the outside of the base. The fence at Sion is a pain but I used a combination of discarded pallets, drinks crates from my hotel and some discarded building materials handily left next to the fence at the 07 end to get some of the shots! Thanks very much...

Last week completed a busy few days for me with a visit to Switzerland for the Cour’s de repetition, a 3 week period of intensive flying training at the beautiful air base at Sion. With snow still on the mountains you would be forgiven for expecting cold weather but the weather turned out to be glor...

Hi all, These are some photo’s from a visit to Meiringen air base, Switzerland on the 22nd/23rd February. It was very cold experience and patience was certainly needed with the weather conditions at times but an extremely worthwhile trip altogether. I was hoping for a bit more F-5 action but they di...

Hi Corné, You have yourself some vey intresting photo's here with some great backdrops. You made some good choices it seems... Did you make Gothenberg as well? I couldn't make it in the end but I'm sure I'll be back in Sweden in 2011 sometime... Cheers; Kevin http://www.flickr.com/kevinmartin1/sets&...

Hi all, Here are some photo’s from a trip to the Swedish air force show at Linkoping-Malmen and from a couple of days spent around Satenas between the 13th-15th June. I hope you like…… Linkoping/Malmen show and the Draken stealing the show….. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g89/tigerkev13/Sweden%2...

Hi Nilsko, It was my friend you spoke to on the approach to Satenas. Just to clarify, we spent Monday (8am-6pm) at the fence with no problems at all. On the Tuesday, despite being in the same position we were politly asked to move away from the base just after 20 Grippens landed, so did so. In total...

John Rambo wrote:Looks nice. Where did you make photo nr. 4?

There is a small gap in an embankment where the 12 aircraft barns are. You can see into 3 of them and you are directly opposite the one where the photo is taken. It is easily reached by a road on the southern end of the base.

Hope that explains!

Kevin

Greetings all, Last week myself and 2 friends vised Switzerland to photagraph and video the Swiss Air Force training coarse at Sion. Lots of intense flying action over the four days kept us all very happy. So, complete with some borrowed drink crates to combat Sion's high fences these are some of th...