NATO Days in Ostrava, Czech Republic w/Israeli F-15Ds

[KGyST]

At a relatively small airshow with spectacular spotting place, this year we enjoyed the appearence of two 'last minute' Israeli F-15D Baz fighters. One of them was Baz 957, the famous 'Half winged' aircraft involved in 1983 Negev mid-air collision.

More pics here (more to come during next weeks).

[Stratofreighter]

The Israeli F-15Ds were indeed quite a coup!

[KGyST]

Here in Central Europe we enjoy a torrent of Israeli fighters, last year at Kecskemét two F-16I Soufas, now the two Baz fighters

[warthog64]

very nice pic's!

[KGyST]

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[perrie]

Very nice small airshow indeed.

Do you have more pics of Baz 957 named "Skyblazer" and 715 "Wind Chart".
Nice surprise that is!

957 has these 4,5 kills:
june 8 1982: MiG-21 with an AIM-7 Sparrow;
june 10 1982 3 kills (!): 2 MiG-23s with an AIM-7 Sparrow and a Python 3 and 1 MiG-21 with a Python 3;
november 19, 1985: 1/2 MiG-23 with a Python 3 shared with aircraft 840.

Thanks for sharing.

Per

[KGyST]

The first post has the link to my gallery that will have the rest of my pics. The F-15s are already there.

[perrie]

Thanks !

Per

[r.e.hendriks]

Nice aircraft...terrible shots!

The fish eye lens makes the aircraft look like bananas.

Rob.

[Melchior Timmers]

Must agree with Rob, nice catches but the fish eye makes them look weird. Also, did you used HDR while processing them?

Regards,

[Stratofreighter]

Indeed a pity you had to use a fish-eye lens, but with barriers very close to the aircraft...

[KGyST]

Actually these are panorama pics processed with Hugin/Luminance HDR/GIMP, and also heavy HDR tonemapping was done.
There are some not so wide angle shots in my processing queue.

(BTW I enjoy having aggressive panoramas like this and actually searched for such close cordons

[Petersrick]

Nice aircrafts!

[KGyST]