100 Years Dutch Military Aviation   

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                                 Dutch Aviation MEDIA 2013 article              (page 3 of 5)

On with the program !

A full page of history in view
DHHA: Dutch Hawker Hunter Association. They keep this fime plane flying and showing on displays.
These examples of history keep the future alive !.
.....  and what a beauty this Hunter is !
By the time an operational NF-5 Tiger, on an open day once.
Koos Heemskerk has a most wide archive of several old operational images. One of 'his'NF-5's.
Koos also provides this NF-5B, lucky man.....  ;-))
Liiving almost on the middle of the runway of Valkenburg NAB, Koos has many visitors of this now closed airfield.
Like this Fokker F-27 in white.....
..... and this F-27 in camouflage sceme. 
Fokker F-50, participating in a Frysian Flag exercise. Friesland by the way has an own language as procince.
F-86 Sabre, situated in the Soesterberg Aviation Museum.
Not only the Hunter is pampered, also other planes like this Harvard are maintained and safer as ever !
'Koninklijke Luchtmacht Historische Vlucht owns a complete arsenal of historical planes..
You can have a phantastic day overthere, also for groups. Just contact them !.
Ay pictured Harvard landing at Gilze Rijen Airbase.
Back to the Open Days 2013: The flying Cigar !
It needed to fly like a rocket, fast and lethal during the Cold War period.
Operational images of the small-winged tube, archive Koos Heemskerk.
Dual seat Starfighters, onlt the howling sound lacks.
Who doesn't recognize this plane with it's unmistakable clear sound: The Spitfire !
Sptifire in maintainance in the hangar of DHHA.
Gloster Meteor.
Thunderstreak at the gate of DHC base Gilze Rijen.
Beaver.
Auster AOP-5.
B-25 Mitchell, one of the three planes as Sir Winston Churchill stated: 'That won the War'.
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