Archive for September, 2009
Tiger Meet – Kleine Brogel Spottersday 2009
Posted by michaely in Airshow Reports on September 24, 2009
Peter Davison
The annual spottersday during the Tiger Meet at Kleine Brogel, Belgium, attracted an enormous crowd of photographers from across Europe. The perfect weather and colourful paint schemes provided an excellent day out.
With no ‘general public’ to get in the way, apart from a few stepladders in the front row, the atmosphere was perfect. There were two mass launches and recoveries with returning aircraft taxiing back along the crowd-line whenever possible.
MAKS – Moscow Airshow 2009
Posted by michaely in Airshow Reports on September 6, 2009
Photos by Peter Davison and Michael Yevdokimov
Text by Peter Davison
Every two years the MAKS airshow draws the crowds to the Zhukovsky Flight Test Centre just southeast of Moscow. Russian industry may have been short on orders these past few years but it sure isn’t short of ideas. The displays of models and light aircraft, particularly some of the autogyros, would suggest that personal mobility is on the verge of great progress; only time will tell. The Tu-334 has given way to the Superjet, the only really new airliner on display; Russia still leads the world on heavylift with not only helicopters but also potential solutions to airborne relief being available to the right investor.