some old 80's pics of Soesterberg AB.

[henkderidder]

And then the Bulldogs came to fight the Wolfhounds.
Don't know the exact date but I thing its the summer of 84, when the 525 TFS came in for a DACT with the 32 TFS,so the 32nd could do some practice for the William Tell that year. This was a very welcome visit for "the boys from the fence" : The 525 brought a D model 3 C models, from one of them had a colored 525 squadron patch on the intake. Most of the Bitburg birds did not carry any patch or it was a tone down one. Squadrons had to be reconized be the tail color. One of the visiting 525 aircraft once belonged to the 32 TFS: the 78 549.
Images are made from slides made by John Lekkerkerker. I was standing beside him taking them in black and white, I prefer the colored ones: thank you John!

[R.Snijders]

Since we already made some diversions to the nineties as well, here a "ratjetoe" of visitors in the 80's and 90's. Not the best quality, but still worth sharing I guess.

[P.Terlouw]

I don't know if I posted them before but maybe it is nice to see some video from the old days. I understand it is a photo forum so if the moderators not agree, please feel free to remove them........

[ebauer]

My alltime favorite aircraft in my favorite livery at one of my favorite airbases. Unfortunally not
a very good pic...but I do like the 'clean' configuration and the dragchute!



Nevertheless a credit for Peter Terlouw for his assistance to get this pic here!

[Hans Rolink]

My alltime favorite aircraft in my favorite livery at one of my favorite airbases. Unfortunally not
a very good pic...

Oops! Is that a streamer chute, Ernesto? Or is it just deploying?

Hans.

[John 312]

It's just deploy from the first F-104G , the other chute is from the one at the back.

greetz

John

[P.Terlouw]

Rotation with 298 Squadron and Danish Haer Fl resulted in a nice formation



Test flight of the 79-0018/CR ending in an emergency landing



and being towed back to maintenance





nice sight in 1984 with a KC-10A and a landing F-15

[jimmy van drunen]

Nice shots of the KC-10 with the F-15!

[P.Terlouw]

Some civil visitors in the shape of the NLR Swearingen Metro



and a KLM S-61 during the Isacar Ralley



Mirage F1C at the static in 1984



Canadian Dash 7 arriving in 1984



C-5 Galaxy arriving



and departing





Australian C-130 Hercules

[P.Terlouw]

C-141B Starlifter about to leave in the clear morning sun

[ebauer]

Unfortunally I'm running out of decent digitalized pics of Soesterberg AB...

[ebauer]

[Hans Rolink]

Nice subjects, everyone of them. However, I have one tip for you all;
hold back on the de-noising software (NoiseNinja, Neat Image), because frequently, the grass and the wood in the background blur too much.
Otherwise, keep posting!


Hans.

[ebauer]

The following pic seems to be disappeared at page 50 for some reason and I don't know why:



Soesterberg 12 juni 1984
D-HAXO SA330J GS-Fliegerstaffel Nord, Gifhorn

[P.Terlouw]

and a few more starting with a 1st CAG CF188 Hornet



512th TFS F-16C from Ramstein AB



313th TFS F-16C from Hahn AB



57th FIS F-15C from Keflavik



While the Wolfhounds rotated with 31 Squadron from Bruggen also this 617 Squadron Tornado was present



and a 31 Squadron Tornado