The first movements of day 2 of our trip to Meiringen 2019. This video was shot on Tuesday 30th April and these jets departed at 0830 under the callsign HERON41. These little Tigers don’t half make a racket in burner when you’re up close 🙂
This was the 16:00 departure on the 29th April 2019, under the call sign RAPTOR61 flt. The jets recovered back to Meiringen at 16:50. The launch was shot from my favourite location at Meiringen. They were flying the tail off the Staffel 11 (Tigers) special tail F-18C during this week so we shot a lot of this jet!
Interesting to see the nose leg extend on this F-5E before take off. Also great to see the brakes come off at 00:31 too 🙂
One from the archives from RIAT 2012 that I recently re-found. This NATO E-3 pilot demonstrated some truly amazing flying skills. A fighter style initial and break to land followed by an early base leg turn and a dramatic landing. The jet must be at 60Ëš of bank on the initial turn and pulling so hard that vapour was forming on the top of the wings. Definitely a landing to remember!
This was the 15:00 departure on the 29th April 2019, under the call sign HERON31. The jet recovered back to Meiringen at 16:30.
We paid a visit to Meiringen air base back in the spring of 2019. Our favouriate air base to visit and we were lucky enough to catch both F-18s and F-5s during this trip. It was especially great to catch the F-5Fs which I’ll upload in the coming days.
A short promo video for a series of aviation movies due to be released later in 2017.
Music kindly provided by Soundhacker – http://ampbitifgo.co.uk/releases/amp001.html
We had some surprise visitors to Meiringen on this first day of our trip in the form of x4 French Navy Rafales.
The arrivals were shot from the south side of the base, the departures from the north where we were up close and person with some thunderous ABs. Vive la France!