Tipsy S by Jean-Pierre Decocq
Visit us at www.belgian-wings.be http://www.facebook.com/groups/Belgianwings http://www.sv4b.be/ http://www.wingsofmemory.be/Eng.htm www.belgianaviationnews.be Many happy landings
2011-05-11
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2011-05-10
SBAP site update on 08-05-2011 : Events : Operation "Freedom Falcon" updated !
SBAP site update on 08-05-2011 : Events : Presentation of the demo teams 2011
Text & Pictures : Serge Van Heertum Drawing : Alexander Vandenbohede © sbap 2011
Koksijde airshow is already mentioned on many aeronautical blogs as “the best European airshow of 2011”. And indeed, to highlight the 65 years of the Belgian Air Force the authorities are busy to prepare a great event. The theme will be of course the history of the Belgian Air Force with the participation of many historical aircraft like Spitfire, Harvard, SV4 and other Hunter.
No less than eight demonstration teams are planned
See more at : http://www.sbap.be/events/2011/demo2011/demo2011.htm
2011-05-09
Anciens Aerodromes : Lettre Nr 18 Mai 2011
Lettre - 018 - Mai 2011
Ce mois de mai s’ouvre sur une intense activité. Nous aurons les 21 et 22 mai la présentation au public de notre deuxième volume de la collection Aérodromes qui sera dédié à l’histoire de Merville-Calonne.The last letter of http://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/ with information about the flyin in Merville- Calonne on May 21st and 22th and the publication of the book about the Merville airfield (France)
The newsletter is here
Many happy landings
2011-05-05
Book : BCARG Special. Number 12 Tipsy Taildraggers
To be availlable at the next ASA's Antwerp Aviation Fair at the Stampe & Vertongen Museum
On the occasion of the fair, ASA Antwerp publish a BCARG Special.
On the occasion of the fair, ASA Antwerp publish a BCARG Special.
Number 12 will put the Tipsy Taildraggers in the spotlight
Price :
ASA-members : 17,50 EUR(*)
Non-members : 19,00 EUR
(for postage add 5,00 EUR)
(*) ASA-members who collect their copy at the fair or at the Aviator lounge (between 07/05/2011 and 07/06/2011) will be presented with a surprise.
You can order your copy as from now, by paying the full amount on account of Aviation Society of Antwerp vzw 001-0791389-42, mentioning BCARGS12 and your full name and addres
Price :
ASA-members : 17,50 EUR(*)
Non-members : 19,00 EUR
(for postage add 5,00 EUR)
(*) ASA-members who collect their copy at the fair or at the Aviator lounge (between 07/05/2011 and 07/06/2011) will be presented with a surprise.
You can order your copy as from now, by paying the full amount on account of Aviation Society of Antwerp vzw 001-0791389-42, mentioning BCARGS12 and your full name and addres
Saturday May 7th, will see the 12th edition of the ASA's Antwerp Aviation Fair at the Stampe & Vertongen Museum. Doors will open at 10am and close around 4pm.
Direct link http://www.asa-be.com/publications_asa.htm
Museum : Volandia Malpensa (Italy)
Thanks to MicheleDiscover this new Museum in Italy
Access here : http://www.volandia.it/en/
Volandia – Park and Museum of flight
Take a look around you - the walls are steeped in history, dreams and the future. You are at Volandia, where a wonderful exhibitionitinerary takes you deep into the history of international aeronautics,with focus on the companies that have written the story of the provinceof Varese, the province with wings, and all of Lombardy and Italian industry.The exhibition is divided into five areas: forms of flight, fixed wing, rotary wing, model aircraft and the convertiplane. It tells the great history of flight in all its forms, from pioneer flights in hot-air balloons to the first aircraft in the early 1900s right through to the convertiplane, the perfect fusion of vertical and horizontal flight.
The Park and Museum of Flight has plenty of indoor and outdoor areas for children, with space dedicated to the different age brackets. For older visitors there is the simulation area, library, historical archives (consultable online), convention room and film showings.
The Volandia Store stocks a wealth of park and museum gifts and mascots and many other wonderful articles.
As you walk around the park and museum you can listen to exciting adventures involving the aircraft on show told by volunteers ofthe “Friends of Volandia” association, whose members include fanatics and former workers at the aircraft companies. If you would like to join the association, just ask.. Members are easy to recognise in their red uniform.
The Flight Café is the perfect place to take a break and have something to eat and drink.
Volandia makes flight dreams and fun happen.
2011-05-04
Event : 7 & 8/05/2011 Airshow St Hubert
Received thx to Vincent
MEETING AÉRIEN AÉRODROME DE SAINT-HUBERT
Samedi et Dimanche 07-08 mai 2011:
- A partir de 1O.OO hrs
- Présentation en vol à partir de 14.00 hrs
Aérodrome civil de Saint-Hubert, MAIS parking sur piste militaire: suivre le fléchage.
7 € P/P, moins de 12 ans gratuit.
http://www.airloisirs.be/meeting-aerien-2011-saint-hubert.php
Many happy landing
- A partir de 1O.OO hrs
- Présentation en vol à partir de 14.00 hrs
Aérodrome civil de Saint-Hubert, MAIS parking sur piste militaire: suivre le fléchage.
7 € P/P, moins de 12 ans gratuit.
http://www.airloisirs.be/meeting-aerien-2011-saint-hubert.php
Many happy landing
2011-05-03
bam : Replica : WW1 motorcar replica : Nouvelles de la reconstruction
Hello,
WW1 permitted fast progresses in mechanical technologies.
Aircraft & car were widely used.
Our friend André Fillée who was volunteer at the Museum aeronautical section is now busy with a new challenge.
Building a replica of a armored motorcar used by the Belgian Army during World War 1.
Bonjour à tous,
un projet de reconstruction à l'identique d'une voiture blindée ayant participé à la Campagne de Russie durant la guerre de 1914 est sur les rails. Vous trouverez des informations sur son évolution en pièce jointe. Amicales salutations de l'équipe.
2014 : l'auto-canon va revivre !
Un peu d'histoire voulez-vous. Durant des siècles, pour ne pas dire des millénaires, l'histoire a été racontée puis enseignée de façon à justifier certaines prises de positions politiques, économiques, sociales ou personnelles, rarement de manière objective.
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2011-05-02
bam : Event 07/05/2011 ASA Aviation Fair
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| Saturday May 7th, will see the 12th edition of the ASA's Antwerp Aviation Fair at the Stampe & Vertongen Museum. Doors will open at 10am and close around 4pm. | |
http://www.asa-be.com/Photogallery_ASA_antwerp_aviation_fair.htm
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Royal Army Museum Activities
Er was eens... het Koninklijk Legermuseum
Het Legermuseum zet de deuren van de verbeelding wagenwijd open! De zalen zigzaggen tussen water, aarde, vuur en lucht! Vertellers nemen u mee naar de donkerste hoekjes van het museum, waar een object of een sfeer nu eens heroïsche of verschrikkelijke en dan weerromantische of stoutmoedige verhalen opwekken.
Sprookjes uit de hele wereld, gebracht in het Nederlands en het Frans,werpen een nieuw licht op de rijke collecties van het museum.
Dit is geen geleid bezoek.
Uurregeling
Zaterdag 14 mei 2011
Wandelingen in het Frans: 17 u 30 - 18 u 30 - 19 u 30 - 20 u 30
Wandelingen in het Nederlands : 18 u - 20 u
Zondag 15 mei 2011
Wandelingen in de Frans: 10 u 30 - 15 u
Wandeling in het Nederlands: 15 u
Duur : 50 minuten
Geschikt voor alle leeftijden
Deelname : 5 euro per volwassene – Gratis onder de 18 jaar
Waar ? : Koninklijk Legermuseum, Jubelpark 3 1000 Brussel
Métro Merode – Parking op de Esplanade
Info : Marie-Hélène Billwatsch 02/737 78 27 – 0473/78 41 71
marie-helene.billwatsch@klm-
Il était une fois... le Musée royal de l'Armée
Quand le Musée de l'Armée ouvre ses portes à l'imaginaire !Quand ses salles nous font passer de l'eau à la terre et du feu à l'air ! Des conteurs vous entrainent dans les coins et recoins du musée, où un objet, une ambiance fait jaillir une histoire héroïque et terrible, romanesque et audacieuse... Des contes du monde entier en français et en néerlandais pour se laisser surprendre et porter un autre regard sur les riches collections du musée.
Ceci n'est pas une visite guidée.
Horaire
Samedi 14 mai 2011
Balades en français : 17 h 30 - 18 h 30 - 19 h 30 - 20 h 30
Balades en néerlandais : 18 h - 20 h
Dimanche 15 mai 2011
Balades en français : 10 h 30 - 15 h
Balade en néerlandais : 15 h
Durée : 50 minutes
Tout public
Participation : 5 euros par adulte - Gratuit pour les moins de 18 ans
Où ? : Musée royal de l’Armée, Parc du Cinquantenaire 3 à 1000 Bruxelles
Métro Mérode – Parking aisé sur l’Esplanade
Infos : Marie-Hélène Billwatsch 02/737 78 27 – 0473/78 41 71
Exhibition at the Royal Army Museum
Nieuwe tentoonstelling : 1945 - 2002 "Belgische soldaten in Duitsland"
Van 4 mei t/m 4 september 2011 toont de Duitse Ambassade in het Koninklijke
Legermuseum de tentoonstelling : “ 1945 - 2002 Belgische soldaten in Duitsland “.
More info :
Van 4 mei t/m 4 september 2011 toont de Duitse Ambassade in het Koninklijke
Legermuseum de tentoonstelling : “ 1945 - 2002 Belgische soldaten in Duitsland “.
More info :
 | Persbericht BSD Expo NLD.pdf 214K View Download |
2011-05-01
Interesting site on the origins of flight
Just discovered a very interesting site on the origins of flight in the Champagne region with many references to Belgian pioneers.
Have a look:
Daniel
Have a look:
Daniel
bam : Video : Festo - SmartBird : Un oiseau mécanique !
Hello,
One of the way the pioneers of aviation explored was to reproduce the flight of the birds.
Leonard Da Vinci and many others experimented varied solutions but no one was practical and finally the Wright brothers demonstrated the solution was fixed wings.
Today the technology permit to make the dream possible and the Festo company produce a robot which fly as a bird.
The invention is the demonstration of the capabilities of this company but could also have applications in the surveillance role with drones flying almost silently unnoticed by observers from the ground.
Thx Marc for sharing
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One of the way the pioneers of aviation explored was to reproduce the flight of the birds.
Leonard Da Vinci and many others experimented varied solutions but no one was practical and finally the Wright brothers demonstrated the solution was fixed wings.
Today the technology permit to make the dream possible and the Festo company produce a robot which fly as a bird.
The invention is the demonstration of the capabilities of this company but could also have applications in the surveillance role with drones flying almost silently unnoticed by observers from the ground.
Thx Marc for sharing
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Loward Marc
Date: 2011/4/30
Subject: Un oiseau mécanique !
To: Loward Marc <malo140151@skynet.be>
From: Loward Marc
Date: 2011/4/30
Subject: Un oiseau mécanique !
To: Loward Marc <malo140151@skynet.be>
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2011-04-30
bam : Webzine La Lettre d'informations (aéronautiques) Avril-Mai 2011 N°22
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Subject: La Lettre d'informations (aéronautiques) Avril-Mai 2011 N°22
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2011-04-26
Webupdate : SBAPsite update on 24-04-2011
Dear aviation enthusiast,
This week on SBAP web site :
News : New book "100 ans de technique aéronautique en Belgique
News : Belgian aircraft in Canada
News : The Red Devils are back ! It's official now...
News : New tiger roar at Kleine Brogel (Belgian Wings)
Events : Operation "Freedom Falcon" updated !
Happy Easter to all our reader !
Next Air Component event : 60 years ATCC
Thanks for your support, enjoy your flight and always safe landing...
Don't forget to share our links with all your interested friends...
Serge & Marc
2011-04-22
Event : Gliding competition 07 & 08/05/2011 EBGG Overboelare Geraardsbergen
Grote prijs Geraardsbergen 7 en 8 mei 2011 EBGG Overboelare-Geraardsbergen
Na een succesvolle organisatie van de Victor Boin 2010 organiseert het Vlaams zweefvliegcentrum Phoenix onder de naam “Grote prijs Geraardsbergen” voor het eerst een meerdaagse zweefvliegwedstrijd. - De wedstrijd staat open voor toestellen die voldoen aan de definitie van sportklasse volgens BVV. (DAeC handicap > 98) - Alle toestellen vliegen in één klasse. - De proeven liggen buiten luchtruim dat transpondergebruik vereist. - Er kan gestart worden met lier- of sleepstart. - Max aantal deelnemers : 18 Op zaterdagavond is er een gezellige BBQ waar iedereen van harte welkom is. (inschrijven kan via mail of uiterlijk zaterdagmiddag aan de bar) Iedereen is welkom vanaf vrijdagavond 19:00. Afsluitende ceremonie en prijsuitrijking: Zondagavond 8 mei 2011. voor meer info kontakteer het wedstrijdsecretariaat
Pictures : Photographic History & Tribute to all Vintage Propeller aircraft
Received from louisneve
" I remember the Belgian Air Force used to call their C-119's Packets or Charlie One Nineteen.
We used to see them regularly at Newcastle and previously RAF Ouston on their trooping flights for "Operation Over Tyne" (which it is still called today) at the Otterburn Ranges in Northumberland, England.
In the latter days of its service we used to provide a handling service (Ground Power usually) at Newcastle to the BAF and they referred to them as Packets or Charlie One Nineteen and certainly used the latter on the R/T to I/D their type when on initial call. Also telex messages never mentioned anything other than Packet or C-119 - Boxcar was never ever used, it was the same in Diplomatic Clearances to ATC. If we had crews from both the C-119 and DC-6A in the office at the same time and you asked who is flying what - it was always the Packet or Charlie One Nineteen.
The C-119G's CP-19 to CP-40 were delivered between 10Aug53 and 20Mar54 with CP-41 to CP-46 following ex-USAF in Feb58. All aircraft served with 15 Wing only, amassing some 154,157 flying hours until retired during 1972-73. Most went into storage at Koksijde, but CP-29 and CP-37 were believed to be sold to Ethiopia and CP-46 went to the Brussels Museum.
(Source: Belgian Military Aviation 1945 - 1977, by Paul A.Jackson; Midland Counties Publications, 1977)
The new design was such a great and radical departure from the C-82 that the Air Force gave it a new designation: C-119A. The XC-82B and the C-119A were the same, one-off airplane, tail number 45-7769, pulled from the C-82 line and re-worked.
It gets counted as two different airplanes, but it was the same one.
When a contract was let to build 55 of the new C-119s in 1946, they were designated C-119B. Fairchild insisted it was just a redesigned C-82 Packet and they never changed the name. The official name of the C-119 was also "Packet," same as the C-82. Both the C-82 and the C-119, all the way to the last C-119G off the assembly line, 53-7884, were officially named Packet.
C-119Js got a beaver-tail with an open-in-flight cargo door, C-119Ks got small jets under the wings, and C-119Ls got 3-bladed props--all still called Packet, including the C models and F models.
There were no D or E model other than design submissions. All C-119s were eventually modified to G models. There was a one-off C-119H, a C model pulled off the assembly line and extensively modified to compete for the contract ultimately won by Lockheed with the C-130.
A derivitive of the name was given to the XC-120, a re-worked C-82 that had removable pods, and was also a one-off. There were a total of 1,112 C-119s built from 1947 to 1953. In the late '60s, 52 C-119 Packets were pulled out of mothballs and sent to St. Augustine and modified to AC-119G 'Shadow' and AC-119K 'Stinger' gun ships, but those were only nicknames, as was the term "Flying Boxcar," which was applied to both the C-82 and C-119 because their cargo compartments were just about the same size as a railroad boxcar...
All Flying Boxcars, Dollar-Nineteens, Charlie one one niners, Shadows Stingers, etc., manufactured by North American, Fairchild and Kaiser-Fraser.... were Packets."
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Yves Duwelz
From: Jean Schoefs
Subject: Photographic History & Tribute to all Vintage Propeller aircraft
Subject: Photographic History & Tribute to all Vintage Propeller aircraft
Truly a piece of aviation history.- This may very well be the best documented website on the net of all Vintage Propeller aircraft – lots of photographs, all well documented with history and final resting places. Most pictures can be enlarged with a click.
Enjoy,
Jean
Photos #1-4 by Eddy Vanhaute
Dr. Péter Moys sent in this fine study of DC-6B OO-SDQ; he wrote:
"This is the last scheduled Douglas DC-6 of SABENA, at Budapest, leaving for BRU. The Caravelle came next time on! - I took this photo in 1963 or 1964."
"This is the last scheduled Douglas DC-6 of SABENA, at Budapest, leaving for BRU. The Caravelle came next time on! - I took this photo in 1963 or 1964."
OO-SQD c/n 44695/582 went on to Jean-Claude Bergey (TR-LOX, dba Apollo, operated in Biafra) and onto Gabonair as TR-LQE, Trans Gabon, Air Gabon and the trail went cold after that (probably scrapped by now or a wreck somewhere in the jungle, overgrown).
It shows to full advantage SABENA's good old DC-7C OO-SFC (c/n 45159) in the early days (1956). Service period was 1956 - 1970, according to the fleet list. - C/n 45159 was broken up recently after years of storage at Las Palmas as EC-BSQ
Photo by Eddy Vanhaute
Aaahhh.... those were the days!"
Photo /Fernand van de Plas
a unique image of Belgian Air Force C-119s (CP25 en CP30) in heavy maintenance with SABENA...
In the background one can also see the conversion of 'swingtail configuration' on the Spantax DC-6B, EC-BBK.
There is even a glimpse of a Braniff International Boeing 720! Yes indeed, Braniff's 720s rotated through Brussels for a (Boeing) update.
SABENA performed for many years contract work for Douglas and Boeing.
In the background one can also see the conversion of 'swingtail configuration' on the Spantax DC-6B, EC-BBK.
There is even a glimpse of a Braniff International Boeing 720! Yes indeed, Braniff's 720s rotated through Brussels for a (Boeing) update.
SABENA performed for many years contract work for Douglas and Boeing.
Ian MacFarlane sent in these Belgian Air Force C-119 photos and he remembers them well. His memory was triggered due to an exchange on Classic-Propliner Yahoo forum on C-119 names; he wrote:
" I remember the Belgian Air Force used to call their C-119's Packets or Charlie One Nineteen.
We used to see them regularly at Newcastle and previously RAF Ouston on their trooping flights for "Operation Over Tyne" (which it is still called today) at the Otterburn Ranges in Northumberland, England.
In the latter days of its service we used to provide a handling service (Ground Power usually) at Newcastle to the BAF and they referred to them as Packets or Charlie One Nineteen and certainly used the latter on the R/T to I/D their type when on initial call. Also telex messages never mentioned anything other than Packet or C-119 - Boxcar was never ever used, it was the same in Diplomatic Clearances to ATC. If we had crews from both the C-119 and DC-6A in the office at the same time and you asked who is flying what - it was always the Packet or Charlie One Nineteen.
"CP-31 - was at RAF Ouston (still used by the Army!) which is located about 5 miles north west of Newcastle Airport, it was hard to get good sharp photographs of taxying aircraft due to my camera having a manual focus and the fastest shutter speed being 1/300 - the C-119's used to taxi past at quite a speed as it was some distance to the main runway."
C-119G OT-CBJ / CP-30 (10998), NCL 01Aug 69.
Forty-six C-119s were delivered to the Belgian Air Force from 1952 onwards, initially C-119F's (1951 serials), and later C-119G's. - Eight of the C-119F's were passed to the Norwegian Air Force during June-Sep. 1956 and the remaining ten were converted to 'G' standard in 1959, with some re-serialling.
The C-119G's CP-19 to CP-40 were delivered between 10Aug53 and 20Mar54 with CP-41 to CP-46 following ex-USAF in Feb58. All aircraft served with 15 Wing only, amassing some 154,157 flying hours until retired during 1972-73. Most went into storage at Koksijde, but CP-29 and CP-37 were believed to be sold to Ethiopia and CP-46 went to the Brussels Museum.
(Source: Belgian Military Aviation 1945 - 1977, by Paul A.Jackson; Midland Counties Publications, 1977)
" The official name of the C-82 was "Packet." The first few C-82s were built by North American and they designed it, but Fairchild took over the contract and tooled up to built 200-plus C-82As. The C-82 had its shortcomings, so a 'redesign' was done, and the result was the XC-82B, still called a Packet.
The new design was such a great and radical departure from the C-82 that the Air Force gave it a new designation: C-119A. The XC-82B and the C-119A were the same, one-off airplane, tail number 45-7769, pulled from the C-82 line and re-worked.
It gets counted as two different airplanes, but it was the same one.
When a contract was let to build 55 of the new C-119s in 1946, they were designated C-119B. Fairchild insisted it was just a redesigned C-82 Packet and they never changed the name. The official name of the C-119 was also "Packet," same as the C-82. Both the C-82 and the C-119, all the way to the last C-119G off the assembly line, 53-7884, were officially named Packet.
C-119Js got a beaver-tail with an open-in-flight cargo door, C-119Ks got small jets under the wings, and C-119Ls got 3-bladed props--all still called Packet, including the C models and F models.
There were no D or E model other than design submissions. All C-119s were eventually modified to G models. There was a one-off C-119H, a C model pulled off the assembly line and extensively modified to compete for the contract ultimately won by Lockheed with the C-130.
A derivitive of the name was given to the XC-120, a re-worked C-82 that had removable pods, and was also a one-off. There were a total of 1,112 C-119s built from 1947 to 1953. In the late '60s, 52 C-119 Packets were pulled out of mothballs and sent to St. Augustine and modified to AC-119G 'Shadow' and AC-119K 'Stinger' gun ships, but those were only nicknames, as was the term "Flying Boxcar," which was applied to both the C-82 and C-119 because their cargo compartments were just about the same size as a railroad boxcar...
All Flying Boxcars, Dollar-Nineteens, Charlie one one niners, Shadows Stingers, etc., manufactured by North American, Fairchild and Kaiser-Fraser.... were Packets."
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Yves Duwelz
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