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As planned we ended up with two days at the ever popular Hyakuri, just not the two we expected. The Wednesday was average weather, and the Friday was superb. Both days we spent 8am-1pm in the "shrine" on the east side and the afternoons at various spots on the west side of the base. http:/...

This was planned as a second day at Hyakuri, but it was a washout and we headed off to try a few other bases in case things improved. By the end of the day we were at at Iruma and the rain had finally stopped. Caught a representative bunch of types in the last hour of half decent light before it det...

A couple of pleasant days in the sun outside the home of 21 Hikotai - the fast jet training squadron that flies the F-2B. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p6025/Japan10/LJ8V106482.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p6025/Japan10/LJ8V106514.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p60...

A relatively small open day at JGSDF Utsunomiya, located an hour or so north of Tokyo. Once the opening ceremony was complete, a formation of based types opened the flying display. This consisted of 5x OH-6D, 3x UH-60JA, 3x UH-1J and a CH-47J. This was followed by solo displays by each of these type...

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this thread seemed to be missing some of these: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p6025/Scramble/40D08433.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p6025/Scramble/40D08435.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p6025/Scramble/40D08654.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/p6025/Scramb...