some old 80's pics of Soesterberg AB.

Post by **ebauer** » 10 Feb 2007, 17:39

This is getting better every day! Those TJ F-4Ds and TF-100F make me sick... with envy.(quote)

Yes! When I started with 'serious' aircraft spotting, october 1981, the Danish Airforce was still flying their F-100F's but I never saw them.

Once even a threeship made a low approach at Eelde on their way to Leeuwarden, could you imagine?!

I do have a lot of Soesterberg-related pics too, but it is not possible for me to post them due to technical reasons, unfortunally...

Therefore, continue this topic, please!

DJMikey · Post by **DJMikey** » 10 Feb 2007, 19:09

Eventhough the quality of the pics I show below is poor due to the way I kept them in the early days, I couldn't resist to contribute to this awesome topic. Pics are taken from the spottershill.

Greets, Mike.

Teejee · Post by **Teejee** » 10 Feb 2007, 19:18

Here some pictures from me

will add some more tommorow

gr
johan
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wolf32 · Post by **wolf32** » 10 Feb 2007, 20:08

Some more

Flyingdutchman · Post by **Flyingdutchman** » 10 Feb 2007, 20:54

Wonderful topic guys!!! Keep posting

@ Pieter; great picture of that Danish F-100! Great plane

Evert

P.Terlouw · Post by **P.Terlouw** » 10 Feb 2007, 21:29

and some more (this will turn out to be the biggest topic ever

A civil Gulfstream II on a vist. On Airliners.net I see this jet N80J is now a Gulfstream III ?!

A very frequent visitor were the Orions

Less frequent were the Mirage 5BA's

And even less

the Norwegian Falcon 20

Post by **Key** » 10 Feb 2007, 22:34

What a feast, thanks all for those great additions. I can't stop either.
Anticipating the September 81 Open Day I bought my first telelens, a Tokina 70-150...

'Sorry', more Phantoms

F-4F 38+03 with nice big serial taking off on 04aug81.

Another VC-140B Jetstar visited on 19aug81. With its appearance like a mini airliner and all-moving tail surface I think this is one of the coolest bizjets ever built.

The Eagles had the 32TFS badge on the left intake and the 17th AF emblem on the right one (79-0028/CR on 18aug81).

G-91T-1 34+44 has just pulled the chute on 26aug81.

One day later FX51 in its fabulous c/s and with some extra titles (including 'TIR' like on a truck) joined the Fiat on the X-service platform.

And while the main runway at Valkenburg was being resurfaced, some of the Dutch Neptunes operated out of Soesterberg:

Both taken on 28aug81.

Post by **Key** » 10 Feb 2007, 22:43

P.Terlouw wrote:A civil Gulfstream II on a vist. On Airliners.net I see this jet N80J is now a Gulfstream III ?!

US civil regis (like those in Germany and a few other countries) may be re-used. Your pic is G-II 160, and from mar85 till mar05 N80J was G-III 441. Your N80J became N801 in jul84, had four more regis since and was converted to a G-IISP apr98.

The regi is currently assigned to a BAe125-800XP.

Erik

warthog64 · Post by **warthog64** » 10 Feb 2007, 23:34

Hope that you are not bored with all those phantoms

,

test flight of an CR F-15,

F-15 in lovely light conditions,

tomorrow some more,
keep the photos coming!,

warthog64
(Roel Reijne)

Arjan · Post by **Arjan** » 10 Feb 2007, 23:59

We sure are never getting bored of those Phantoms.....keep them coming!!

Thanks for the pics guys, wish somebody would open such a topic on Spangdahlem or Volkel!

Best regards,

Arjan

P.Terlouw · Post by **P.Terlouw** » 11 Feb 2007, 08:52

Okay, some more ................... PHANTOMS

warthog64 · Post by **warthog64** » 11 Feb 2007, 09:18

two black & whites (both photo's by Henk de Ridder)
digial copies by me,

warthog64
(Roel Reijne)

Iwan Bogels · Post by **Iwan Bogels** » 11 Feb 2007, 12:52

Hi guys,

It's great to see so many old photos from local grounds. It may be clear that the F-4 Phantom was high on almost everybodíes list.

Personally I really enjoyed the gear-up shot of MLD SP-2H 203/V. I wish I had shot that myself....

Keep it up guys !

Cheers,
Iwan

PS: As topics on this messageboard disappear after a while, would it be a good idea to set up a special page with loads of photos from Soesterberg (or any other airbase) ? Ik know that Valkenburg already has one...

warthog64 · Post by **warthog64** » 11 Feb 2007, 12:52

what else to do on an rainy sunday.....

here are some more,

one of 4 'SP' F-4's that came that day,

all 4,

on the platform,
with a german alpha,

warthog64
(Roel Reijne)

Post by **Key** » 11 Feb 2007, 13:04

Iwan Bogels wrote:PS: As topics on this messageboard disappear after a while, would it be a good idea to set up a special page with loads of photos from Soesterberg (or any other airbase) ? Ik know that Valkenburg already has one...

Yep, absolutely a good idea. I won't be the one doing this on short notice though, but my pics are available for it should anyone set this up!

Some more 50mm & converter stuff...
23jul81 brought a Wildenrath Phantom and Bierset Mirage 5. Brake chutes are go.

When leaving, the FGR2 showed those Spey engines may not smoke like they should, but they do flame.

Jumping to 31aug81 again we got a nice 314TAW desert C-130E.

Pair of Eagles returning from a Scramble on 01sep81.

Sidewinders and Sparrows on 79-0029/CR. With both fighters carrying eight AA missiles and a gun they had enough ordnance to bring down a whole squadron of adversaries.

Edit:
Oh well, let's add another Phantom... Torrejon F-4D showing how it's done on a Friday afternoon (04sep81):

Erik