some old 80's pics of Soesterberg AB.

henkderidder · Post by **henkderidder** » 01 Apr 2008, 19:11

Just an ordinairy F-104G in the early 80-ties

Ergo01 · Post by **Ergo01** » 01 Apr 2008, 19:11

Last year I witnessed a precautionary landing by an F15E at Soesterberg. Others in the past were an F-100 that collided with a TV-tower in Smilde. This Alabama F4 had a problem. The aim was to have him catch the heavy barrier, but he got stuck in the light one-for F5 class aircraft.
This barrier was ruined, but luckily nothing serious happened.

henkderidder · Post by **henkderidder** » 01 Apr 2008, 19:14

Sep 93 some of the last Eagles.

Ergo01 · Post by **Ergo01** » 01 Apr 2008, 19:47

This Shackleton is an early AWACS mission aircraft. Wish I could listen to the noise of those engines again.

mikek1357 · Post by **mikek1357** » 01 Apr 2008, 20:00

Wat blijft het toch mooi, zelf weinig van mee gekregen, was toen nog erg jong.

warthog64 · Post by **warthog64** » 01 Apr 2008, 22:58

MMMmmmm very nice again Hans & Henk!,

When winters were real winters...

and summers were real summers...

Flyboy · Post by **Flyboy** » 02 Apr 2008, 08:49

henkderidder wrote:Just an ordinairy F-104G in the early 80-ties

If Im not mistake this was might have been the last and final landing for this airframe. It is now in the MLM. A not so ordinairy 104 if you ask me...

Ergo01 · Post by **Ergo01** » 02 Apr 2008, 11:48

As if it was only yesterday. The slide does not carry a date. These are XZ387/DN and XZ391/DP from 31 Sqn RAF Bruggen.

HenkS · Post by **HenkS** » 02 Apr 2008, 17:03

The Jags could be about 1980 - I got XZ391/DP during the TAM at Ramstein in June that year.

warthog64 · Post by **warthog64** » 04 Apr 2008, 12:25

Some transport,

And some USAF heavy metal,

Ergo01 · Post by **Ergo01** » 04 Apr 2008, 20:05

I do one at a time. In the sixties we had C-131s twice a week, Medevac. Later on we had training flights of T-29s. In the 80-ties we had the occasional visit of the Mildenhall Navy hack.

Ergo01 · Post by **Ergo01** » 05 Apr 2008, 20:30

Seen them before on this site, but redundancy is not a great offence I hope.

Polleke_NL · Post by **Polleke_NL** » 06 Apr 2008, 11:36

Wow guys, hate that I missed all the action back then.., lived near Valkenburg and at that time was satisfied with the Atlantics, Orion, occasional touch and go's of NF-5's and some visitors...

Anyway, might not be the right place, perhaps this would fit better under the Dinosaurs thread, but does any of you have - preferably color - pictures of 32 FIS T-33's, F-86's, F-100's and F-102's ??
Majority I found are black and white, which is obvious for that era, but most don't show the kind of detail that I'm looking for...

P.Terlouw · Post by **P.Terlouw** » 06 Apr 2008, 12:36

Two more from 1984:

Ergo01 · Post by **Ergo01** » 06 Apr 2008, 19:33

Just like the C-130 the CH-47 has a long history, being still in production after so many years. There was a time that US Army performed transport tasks for 32 FS. This one was seen on a winters day in January 1977.

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some old 80's pics of Soesterberg AB.

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