As I am living here in Stockholm now, I thought that only spotting at Bromma Airport may be a bit 'boring' so I extended my 'field of work' last Thursday (29th of November). I tried my luck at the Flygvapnet's (Swedish Airforce) airbase near Linköping, named Linköping-Malmen, about 300km southwest of Stockholm. The base is in use by the Helicopter Wing, the Flight Training School, a division of VIP/ELINT aircraft from F17 wing and the Test and Evaluation Wing of the Flygvapnet.
Unfortunately, as I found out, the Flight School was not flying with any of the Saab150/Sk60's. This is probably because there seemed to be a lot of construction going on in that corner of the airfield... Most probably, the Training Wing operates from an other airbase for the moment.
I started the day with a grey cloudy sky and some rain in the morning. However in the afternoon wheather changed suddenly and even blue spots in the sky could be seen and a nice winter sun accompanied me. As I had been in Linköping before I knew where to go. But, from my experience I had expected to meet the security... Yet, I did not see one security guy at all!!
To get to the point: some photo's of this day.
1. Tp102B seen in its new white/grey scheme
2. JAS39C Gripen from FC during take off
3. One of the new Hkp15s (A109) chosing the air
4. JAS39D Gripen from FC in take off
I was lucky enough to get a Hkp15 'posing' in front of me during its touch-and-go exercises on the runway resulting in the next photoshoot:
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9. A nice pre-sunset as background at 14:00...
10. An other Hkp15, though not coming that close as the previous one
11. Tp102B returning back to its cosy shelter
That was it for this time! I hope you enjoyed this selection and of course: comments are welcome.
Hälsningar,
Corné Uittenbogaard (from Sweden with love
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