ZK024 and ZH902

Great, thnx

Out of curiousity, was the same aircraft parked up mid field on Monday? Thnx

Exclusive: spotlight on F-35 production in Italy In an enormous rectangular building in Cameri, Italy, a group of people swarms over the grey object that among them is known as AL-5. To others, it is known as the fifth Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II for the Italian Air Force. But judging by the...

Thnx for the nice comment! One more pic:

Mastering the Master “Radar lock on Cobra 1”, I hear my pilot call from the front seat. And yes, I can see it on the head up display (HUD) and on the screen between my knees. But the thing is, we don’t actually carry radar or air-to-air missiles. Seconds later and to my amazement, I see Cobra 1 in ...

Airheadsfly.com has reported a lot over the last few weeks about the two Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) F-35A Lightning IIs currently deployed to the Dutch airbase of Leeuwarden. Meeting them on the ground is impressive, meeting them in the air is an encounter of another kind. A fifth generatio...

Stroudy wrote:Apparently on take off/power up it has a bit of a 'Vulcan howl'??

There's a bit of a howl on start up, as I noticed earlier this month at Edwards. You can hear it at min 0:36 in this clip:

https://youtu.be/r7opIX2uDvA

More pics of the arrival are at Airheadsfly.com, btw.

And Lockheed's reply is here: https://www.f35.com/news/detail/joint-p ... 10503378=1

Closing the tanker gap with EART No air power without air-to-air-refueling. But also, no air-to-air refueling without certifications, clearances, bilateral agreements between countries and heaps of paperwork. The infamous European ‘tanker gap’ perhaps is not a matter of aircraft after all, but a ma...

Flying the Frisian Flag Large scale military flying exercise Frisian Flag 2015 is currently in full swing at Leeuwarden airbase in the Netherlands, and Airheadsfly.com went access all areas on Tuesday. Close to 60 fighter aircraft from six different nations take part in Frisian Flag, which coincide...

See our article and interview - it is the Florida Air National Guard’s 159th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, with support from Air National Guard units in California, Massachusetts and Oregon & the latter also providing six aircraft.

Eagles soar over Leeuwarden Fighting Falcons are a familiar sight in the skies over the Dutch airbase of Leeuwarden. But these days, Eagles join them. They are US Air National Guard F-15 Eagle air superiority aircraft and they deployed from the US to Leeuwarden last week as part of US operation Atl...

Ridin' the Stratotanker “First flight Boeing KC-46 delayed until summer,” aviation news headlines read recently. Over Germany, it’s of no concern to the three crew members of a 55 year old Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker, belonging to the 174th Air Refuelling Squadron of the Iowa Air National Guard. Wh...

Thanks, we certainly appreciate it! Stay tuned for a story on our recent KC-135 flight, that will be up around Easter. It even involves the Easter bunny - and it barely survived.

AirheadsFLY: Inside NATO’s Sentry Nest It's springtime, and judging by the busy flightline at Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the E-3A Sentry aircraft of NATO's E-3A Component, it's nesting time. But looks are deceiving, as these birds leave the nest every day. They keep an eye out over Ukraine, ...

The first F-35 in Europe is a fact... and it didn't cross any ocean! The first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to be produced in Italy, rolled out of the Alenia Aermacchi Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Cameri in northern Italy on Thursday 12 March. It marks the first time a F-35 i...

The End of Tweeting They are called ‘Tweety’, and they were called upon for search and rescue missions for over twenty years. But Tweeting is now over for the Dutch AB412 SAR helicopters. Find our story here , or click on the picture below. http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u64/evhest/SAR_AB412_Be...

Old aircraft, new museum in Soesterberg Old aircraft, new museum. That about sums it up for the soon to be opened Nationaal Militair Museum (no, we’re not gonna translate that into English) in the Netherlands – although not quite. This 35,000 square meter museum offers more than aircraft from old t...

Belgium's Best ‘Power is not a problem’. The words, spoken in a briefing room at Beauvechain airbase, are met with a grin by the crew of a Belgian Air Component NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH). In an hour or so, they’ll be practicing confined area landings. In a hover between 100ft tall tr...