Ailes Militaires Belges : New Agusta A109 demo pilot

Brèves / News 2011 - 2012

26 avril 2012 – Nouveau pilote démo A109

Beauvechain. Le lieutenant avi Rutger Andries, pilote de l'A109 Display Team avec le lieutenant avi Igor Craeghs en 2010 et 2011, a officiellement passé le relais au lieutenant avi Filip Peremans.

Pour l'occasion, il a effectué quelques passages à bord du H24 dont c'était le roll out officiel dans sa nouvelle livrée. Le lieutenant Andries a ensuite été chaleureusement remercié pour le travail qu'il a accompli au cours des deux dernières saisons.. Lire l'article

Soaring : 1000 km Goal from the Dutch-Belgium Border to the French-Spanish Border

1000 km Goal from the Dutch-Belgium Border to the French-Spanish Border!

April 22, 2012

By Ritz—”Completing this flight is not only about flying the task. It is like a chain with many links. One missing,and it all falls apart.”—Tijl after his 1000 km goal/free-distance flight.

Words from young Belgium pilot Tijl Schmelzer, who managed after his 1,000 km free distance flight to write, within 48 hours [ mind you he had to drive with mum in the car back to Belgium, trailer behind!!! after a short but good sleep in a hotel], a prestigious article with pictures and statistics that reads as an adventure book of high quality.
Here is the link .ENJOY!!!!!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/90226458/16042012-Keiheuvel-Viersen-SpanishBorder
Inspired by the record flight from Lübeck [ N of Hamburg in Germany] to Bayonne/Biarritz [French Spanish border]  by Hans Werner Grosse 40 years ago on April 25th and after very good preparations, Tijl started early Monday morning for this not too easy flight. 

Full story at http://soaringcafe.com/2012/04/1000-km-goal-from-the-dutch-belgium-border-to-the-french-spanish-border/

Thx Bob for sharing

More about the P-40 found in Egypt

Some time in 1942, a lone Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk bearing the 260 Squadron “HS” squadron code and the aircraft letter “B” settled down over a wide and remote expanse of North African sand desert called Al Wadi al Jadid. Perhaps low on fuel, perhaps lost, or with mechanical problems, the RAF pilot chose to land in the vast North African Sahara. He extended his landing gear, flared low over the sand and settled onto it. The gear snapped off, the desert camouflaged P-40 collapsed onto its belly and slid for a hundred meters or more shedding its radiators and propeller hub.

Read the full article at http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/357/language/en-CA/Original-Kittyhawk-HS-B-Discovered.aspx


Thx Bob for sharing