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Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th June
Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th June
Thought I would start the thread!
Flying
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II- Royal Netherlands Air Force (TBC)
The Patrouille Suisse- Swiss Air Force
Eurofighter EF2000 (C.16) Tifon- Spanish Air Force
Flying
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II- Royal Netherlands Air Force (TBC)
The Patrouille Suisse- Swiss Air Force
Eurofighter EF2000 (C.16) Tifon- Spanish Air Force
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
Hi, not been to the open day before , is there an airport local? or what is the best way to visit? Thanks for any help . ROB
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
If you want to fly, only options are Amsterdam or Eelde (Groningen, but don't know if any airlines are flying from the UK to Eelde)
From Amsterdam you can take the train to Leeuwarden or rent a car, plenty of hotels in Leeuwarden although a lot of rooms will be booked for airshow crews.
At the airshow days there is a busferry from the trainstation to the airbase
From Amsterdam you can take the train to Leeuwarden or rent a car, plenty of hotels in Leeuwarden although a lot of rooms will be booked for airshow crews.
At the airshow days there is a busferry from the trainstation to the airbase
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
Hunter49 wrote:Hi, not been to the open day before , is there an airport local? or what is the best way to visit? Thanks for any help . ROB
London-Southend -> Eelde airport, daily connection, the flights are offered by Stobart Air Information about Eelde airport (EHGG) can be found here: http://www.groningenairport.nl/en/homeroberto wrote:If you want to fly, only options are Amsterdam or Eelde (Groningen, but don't know if any airlines are flying from the UK to Eelde)
From Amsterdam you can take the train to Leeuwarden or rent a car, plenty of hotels in Leeuwarden although a lot of rooms will be booked for airshow crews.
At the airshow days there is a busferry from the trainstation to the airbase
If Eelde airport won't be suitable, you could indeed always try Amsterdam-Schiphol, plenty of connections with the UK there.
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
Schiphol Leeuwarden via the A7 motorway is a nice scenic drive. Halfway the afsluitdijk (big dam) is Breezanddijk. One group of the Dambusters used that as a navigation point. One of the upkeep bouncing bombs is still out there somewhere.
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
I went in the mid 90s, a spotters charter flight in a Dornier and allowed to land/depart from the base, I forget whether we flew from Stansted or Luton, good trip though.
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
update for anyone travelling by train. there will be shuttle buses from Leeuwarden station to airfield , it's approx 2hrs 30 from Amsterdam and there is a half hourly service
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udayx7amRBU
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Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
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Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
Superb display by Spanish Typhoon! Thanks for posting link, I've been signed off sick from work so daytime to has been insufferable recently!
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Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
I do love the Frecce Tricolori! And their commentator isn't bad looking either!
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Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
Visited today and found the show a bit so so to be honest. Nice to see 2 F35 flying, but where was the static one?
Considering how many F16 the Netherlands use, I counted no more than 10, the static show was poor.
What can I say, it was free and I was on holiday, but if I wanted to go for just the show, naa, we do it better in the UK, roll on RIAT
Considering how many F16 the Netherlands use, I counted no more than 10, the static show was poor.
What can I say, it was free and I was on holiday, but if I wanted to go for just the show, naa, we do it better in the UK, roll on RIAT
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
They've only got two at Leeuwarden. So, if both were flying.........dawdawes wrote:........Nice to see 2 F35 flying, but where was the static one?
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Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
F-002 was on static with the RNLAF Apache and Do228 till it was moved to the HAS site to prep for role demo. Agreed show was down in numbers but what was there was good quality.
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
And not quite sure how many F-16s the Netherlands still operate but its nowhere near the old fleet size. I think a turnout of 11 F-16s on flying role demo and 8 on static was a decent turn out!
Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
On the subject of F-16, they had to clean-out Volkel & Leeuwarden to supply the number of a/c they did!
Two JSF-35 flying + one on static (a plastic decoy) that allegedly worked very nicely on Friday when having paint thrown over it by a 'Peace Sea-hag' who couldn't spot the difference....FAIL!!
Two JSF-35 flying + one on static (a plastic decoy) that allegedly worked very nicely on Friday when having paint thrown over it by a 'Peace Sea-hag' who couldn't spot the difference....FAIL!!
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Re: Leeuwarden Open Dagen- Friday 10th and Saturday 11th Jun
On Sunday, both F-001 and F-002 were on static following the completion of the role demo.twinstar wrote:F-002 was on static with the RNLAF Apache and Do228 till it was moved to the HAS site to prep for role demo. Agreed show was down in numbers but what was there was good quality.
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