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Until the early eighties Volkel organised two spotterday's a year. One of the best was on April 14th when 35 Dutch Starfighters could be seen and als some nice visitors! All three Volkel squadrons still flew with the 1-0-4 but 311sq had one first F16A J-252 to get used to the new frame.

Now thats a photo post

KB

Hello, what a terrific post showing the hardware of the day and what I and many others grew up with ! Fantastic memories

Cheers Glenn

Absolutely wonderful to see these, thanks for sharing them with us. The thought of 35 F-104s is heaven for some of us mature enthusiasts. Sadly there's only one on display in the UK, the Danish example at the Midland Aircraft Museum. Photo days would be welcome in the UK too, but seem unlikely to happen at anytime. Some great shots here though.

What a beautiful post Harold. Yes, those were the days with the regular spottersdays at Volkel. I remember them well. I always felt lucky when I got the invitation because there were always far more people requesting access than the hundreds of places available.
Thanks a lot for posting these images that brought back good memories of the 80's. As said before: we didn't realise how lucky were then.
Groeten,
Arnold

Just brilliant! Hootertastic! Great memory jogging post... thanks for sharing

Fantastic! I got there in Oct 78, Apr and Oct 83. Great events!

Martin

Miss the howl it was the sound of the 104 remember at one RIAT a Tiger stripped 104 went down the Runway howling like a Tiger. There was also the Vikings German Navy F104’s 1 would arrive nice and gently doing an overshoot number 2 would come through like a Bat out of Hell and scare everybody to death.

Hooter heaven, Harold

What a stunning set

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Fantastic set Harold
Yes J-252 was in the hangar on my visit 12/5/82 but was instructed not to take out my camera
Thanks for posting
Keith (3Greens)

Loving this lot, thanks!!

superb

Always love a Hooter so these have made my day!