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For a number of reasons it has taken me a while to get around to posting these images and although other forums have featured the special schemes from the Hyakuri open house last December I thought I would put my contribution on BM. I travelled to Japan courtesy of http://www.centreofaviationphotography.com/home and in addition to Hyakuri we visited the Tsuiki open house (images to come) and spent a day at Iruma. As you can see by the images the weather was changeable. The VIP and families day before the public show was warm with glorious sunshine and blue skies while unfortunately the show day itself was cold and cloudy. This was the last show for 302 Squadron which disbands in March and it has been announced that 501 Squadron with the RF4Es will disband in a year's time. If you plan to go then my suggestion is be there early not least because they close the roads around the base. We had booked a coach which gave us a degree of preferential treatment and left the hotel at 4.30am. Some people looked like they had been camping out overnight to be the first in the queue. Bag searches are mandatory and no step ladders or collapsible stools are allowed (unlike at Tsuiki where the stools were allowed). We spent the Saturday VIP day at the towers along with what must have been 100 other enthusiasts and the Sunday inside at the show. 1. 2. 301 Squadron 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The photo ship 10. On the receiving end! 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. This was one of a number of images taken of the crowd along the flight line. 42. This was part of the 302 Squadron stand Sorry about the large number of images but I hope you enjoyed them.
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Dates: 29 July 2017 to 29 October 2017 Host: PhantomBigStu Given this great aircraft turns 45 in 2017 and celebrates 40 years I'm service next year how about a STGB in 2017? Make a nice partner for the f16 GB assuming there's room 1. PhantomBigStu 2. theplasticsurgeon 3. jrlx 4. mungo1974 5. DaveJL 6. Arniec 7. Dazzio 8. Bill Ficner 9. Julien 10. Antoine 11. Caerbannog 12. Pin 13. AndyC 14. trickyrich 15. snapper_city 16. Ale85 17. TrojanThunder 18. richj 19. Arniec 20. Jabba 21. Dermo245 22. vppelt68 23. exdraken