McDonnell Douglas A-4N ´Skyhawk´

McDonnell Douglas A-4N ´Skyhawk´, N432FS (ex-US Navy, ex-Israeli Air Force), operated by the BAE Systems Flight Systems, Fliegerhorst Wittmundhafen, June 2013. Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a light, single-seat and carrier-capable attack aircraft was developed in the early 1950s and manufactured by Douglas (later as McDonnel Douglas, after a merge of both companies in 1967) from... Read More

Fiat G.91 R/4

Fiat G.91 R/4 ´75+00´ (formerly BD+248, German Air Force) exhibited at Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, June 2018. Fiat G.91, a jet fighter-bomber designed by Fiat Aviazione (later Aeritalia) in early 1950s, was a result of both Korean War experiences and NATO Basic Military Requirement 1 (NBMR-1) project, aiming for creation of ´Light Weight Strike Fighter´ for... Read More

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 ´Red 3´

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 ´Red 3´, serial number 163306, exhibited during Open Day of Aviation Legends Foundation (Fundacja Legendy Lotnictwa), Biała Podlaska (Poland), 2014. This ´Gustav´ is one of about 12,000 examples of Bf 109 manufactured in G-6 variant, which constituted about one-third of all Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft totally produced. The pictured aeroplane left... Read More

First look at the 2020 airshow season.

The first days of new year 2020 are already here, meaning the best time to start thinking about the forthcoming air show season. As some of the organizers already released a few initial information and the dates were set, we can do a brief summary of the aviation events in Central Europe. Aviation Fair... Read More

Panavia Tornado ECR

Panavia Tornado ECR from Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 51 ´Immelmann´ (TaktLwG 51 ‘I’), German Air Force, is touching down on the runway at the 31st Tactical Air Base in Poznań – Krzesiny, Poland, during NATO Tiger Meet 2018.  NATO Tiger Meet is the world’s famous, annual live-fly exercise, gathering the military aircraft from so-called ´Tiger-units´ from... Read More

Panavia PA200 Tornado IDS

The Panavia Tornado IDS (interdictor/strike) 43+25, from the Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 51 ´Immelmann´ with the special ´Tiger livery´ for the 2019 NATO Tiger Meet in Mont-de-Marsan. The photo was taken at the TaktLwG 51 home base at Fliegerhorst Schleswig/Jagel, in June 2019. Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 51, formerly known as Aufklärungsgeschwader 51, is the tactical reconnaissance wing... Read More

Sikorsky CH-53GS

The Luftwaffe operated CH-53GS heavy-lift helicopter, returning from the evening COMAO mission to the 22nd Air Force Base in Náměšť nad Oslavou– photo taken in May 2019, during joint tactical helicopter exercise Dark Blade 2019. CH-53 helicopters – originally developed by Sikorsky for the USMC in 1960s and named ´Sea Stallion´ – were ordered... Read More

´Tigers´ over the North Sea – NATO Tiger Meet 2014

The 2014 edition of the multinational, annual live-fly exercise and Tiger – squadron gathering took place between 16th and 26th June, at Fliegerhorst Schleswig/Jagel in Germany. The participating seventeen member squadrons from NATO Tiger Association and Partnership for Peace programme were hosted by Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 51 ´Immelmann´. TaktLwG 51 ´I´, formerly – until September... Read More

Auf Wiedersehen Phantom – Moin Eurofighter! Phantom Pharewell, June 2013

It all began in the late 1960s, approximately ten years from the establishment of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), when the first 88 McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom supersonic jets were bought for the air force of the re-founded armed forces of the West German state. Ordered in 1968, the first Luftwaffe operated Phantoms were... Read More