Malta 2014 (30 + Pics)

[Bat21]

For the first time in about 8 years of visiting this air show - conditions were cloudy (on Saturday anyway).

Sunday was a better day so I made visits on both days this year - photo's more or less in order of taking.

Saturday Shots


The German P-3C Orion crew were quite rightly proud of their countries World Cup success


Egyptian Herc


P-3C Orion of "The Skinny Dragons"


Arty One


Czech L-159 Alca of 212th Tactical Squdron


Display time for The Spanish "Patrulla Aguila"


They weren't THAT loud






Tucano heads out


The one I had been looking forward to - Swiss F-18C - shame about the cloud




The Sun did decide to come out for the Red Arrows - as did most of the other aircrew






Sunday saw us sweating it out in front of the huge Lufthansa hangar - where a couple of colourful 737 were parked up




Frecce Tricolori get airborne from runway 23


Tucano after his display


Great display by the Czech Alca




Then the Swiss cranked up the decibels














A lovely fly by was performed by Air Malta A320 (9H-AEQ) and the Red Arrows to celebrate 40 years of service for Air Malta, and 50 display seasons for the Red Arrows










Thanks for looking

[Ian in Leeds]

Very very nice, particularly like the last but one

Ian in Leeds

[david14]

Very good shots there, some interesting attendees

[Ferrari]

Nice photos, thanks for posting.
Was that a 707 behind the Frecce Tricolori?

Regards
Ferrari

[flat cap]

It's a 720, even rarer. N720JR.

[Bat21]

Yep - as Flat Cap says it's N720JR.
She was parked there (along with a BAC1-11) when I first visited Luqa in 2005 - I have been told she arrived in 2004 and hasn't moved since.