August 28, 2016

Thunder in the Simmental Valley - Hunterfest St. Stephan 2016


Every year there is a very nice little airshow on the former Swiss Air Force Base of St. Stephan in the Simmental valley. The home of famous PAPYRUS-Hunter has some magnificient background with nice mountains like the Wildstrubel (3244m above sealevel) and Albristhore (2762m).
Thius years special guest was a Skyworks Do 328-100 airliner, but my focus stayed on all those nice Hunter and Vampire jet aircrafts. Have fun with the pictures and see you on next edition, August 26th, 2017 !

Organisation: http://www.hunterverein.ch




Hunterfest means not only Aviation - see and let to be seen with very nice cars is also a must do ;)


A short video I've made as teaser for the 2014 show of St. Stephan ;)






For more pictures (also from the last few years) - my pictures on airfighters.com



April 03, 2016

STABANTE 2015 - the movie !



After more then one year I've found the time to finish my film of this exercise - my posting to Stabante 2015 !

For our article in swiss publication COCKPIT I've taken some Videos of all those interesting speaks. The quality was too good to delete them, so I've made an video out of it. It's some kind of a documentation, with german and french language knowledge you will understand all. Footage includes the new QRA-system introduced in our Air Force too, with demonstration of the 15mins and 3mins reaction time. As inlets you can see precisions about Armée de l'Air Air Policy and ELITE low level exercises of the millenium years in Southern Germany.  Some flight scenes in the Jura Mountains, Lake of Neuchâtel, Payerne Base and Fribourg City with the very new LaPoya Bridge are also used for good.


Für meine Artikel nutze ich oftmals Videos von Interviews und Vorträgen, beim abschreiben davon verhindert man viele Fehlerquellen. Auch für die Übung Stabante nutzte ich diese Technik, aber das Material war in zu guter Qualität um es nicht zu verwenden. Die Aussagen wurden für den Film mit Beispielen aus meinem reichhaltigen Fundus ergänzt, verwendet wurden vor allem Aufnahmen von einer Luftpolizeidemonstration der französischen Armée de l'Air und der internationalen Luftwaffenübung ELITE auf dem Waffenplatz Heuberg in Deutschland. Eines der Highlights ist sicherlich die Demo des Luftpolizeidienst 24. Vorgeführt wurden die QRA3, in welcher der Pilot schon in der Maschine sitzt und innert 3 Minuten abheben muss plus die QRA15 mit der Mannschaft bereit im Warteraum neben der Maschine.
Ich entschuldige mich dass es so lange gedauert hat - aber für Videos brauche ich viel Ruhe und Zeit.







December 21, 2015

PAYERNE and SION - Planning 2016


Looks like no EPERVIER in Payerne next year, but with a step further to an continuous QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) quite a couple of manhours more activity.


Sion goes a step further to closing down, but local politics tries to cancel this decision with all those lost millions of hard currency loosing ;)



December 06, 2015

Meiringen - Planning 2016


With the Airshow for it's 75 years jubilée, the main event 2016 is clearly announced on this military airfield !

But as you surely know, there is really no limit for taking some breathtaking pictures back to your home after a visit. For your planning it's maybe helpful to take a look on this chart for the flightactivity in 2016:

 Some impressions from earlier years ;)










October 18, 2015

October 03, 2015

Axalp 2015 - Shooting on 2200m above sea level - Update 18th October 2015


First shootings had already begun and Grimmi was there to train his muscles for next weeks Shooting Demo/Airshow up there ;)
Hornet vaporises its 20mm bullets


As always, there is no guarantee that some aircrafts are flying. Weather (high up in the mountains and down on the airfields too), availability and exercises are the most important factors. But you can nearly always photograph something ...

Ok, I will finish ... some more aircrafts of 1st training day October 01, 2015 now ;)




2nd part - beginning low and fast !





Tigris Helveticus





3rd part - 'The other side' ...







Swiss Hornet Display Team with Captain Julien 'Teddy' Meister 




And the already legendary little show of 'Stampa' for the <100 people high up above the fog !!!