OT- Hahnweide Oldtimertreffen

[Pluto]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

A different way to spend the weekend...
This week I happily forgot to frantically hit F5 key looking for a patch and I'm gone with some friends to an air show near Stuttgart.
This is my first time at 'Hahnweide Oldtimertreffen' and I have to admit is quite better than Flying Legend in Duxford.
I post the link for those who don't know it.
http://www.oldtimer-hahnweide.de/home.php

Among the others B25 and P38 Red Bull, Bf109 and Me262, more than 20 oldtimer (Klemm-Tigermoth-Fw44 Stieglitz etc) the complete list of partecipants is on home site. From 09.00 to 19.00 an uninterrupted succession of take off an landing. Shot more than 2000 picts.
Some 4 u, hope u like it. When I have checked them all I'll post more.
Cheers

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... I`m going there regularly for years already but in the past it was much better !

The display of the planes was much closer to the audience, the BF-109 and other planes that just appeared flying over the airfield this year, where on the airfield in the past years, taking off and landing there, even the B-25 ! This is the first year that the 109 did only come for a fly-by, it`s a pity.
So far it is correct to call it "worst airshow ever".

But nice to see some real warbirds from time to time, isnt it?

[pupaxx]

effectively me109, me262, giordanian falcon and spits displayed far away from center line, they exibit over wooden area near the airstrip and a bit high... P51 were ok, ok also seafury (great show)

[Pluto]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

effectively me109, me262, giordanian falcon and spits displayed far away from center line, they exibit over wooden area near the airstrip and a bit high... P51 were ok, ok also seafury (great show)

... I remember years when you could watch the BF-109 or Mustang so close, you could look into the muzzle of their guns when they were roaring straight towards you, only a few meters off the ground.
You could even feel the propwash and smell the engine when they were passing over your head !

That was a feeling - hard to describe !!! But that was many years ago,...

[pupaxx]

@Pluto

since when this airshow exists? I became aware of it accidentally this year.
Thanks

[Pluto]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

@Pluto

since when this airshow exists? I became aware of it accidentally this year.
Thanks

... dont know exactly, but I think the first time I was there was in 1997 or 1999.

[pupaxx]

thanks, but it's over....let's go back hitting F5...

[blomsky]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

@Pluto

since when this airshow exists? I became aware of it accidentally this year.
Thanks

They said that it´s been the 16. (!) Hahnweide this year which is happening every two years.

[Rickusty]

Great pictures and great event!

Just love those Soviet Yaks btw