> Welcome

Welcome to the aviation picture gallery of Tom and Wim Houquet. Here you can find a selection of aviation photographs taken at different events across Europe. The website will be regulary updated with new picture galleries. Please click on the thumbnales to view the images.

> Latest additions

Zeebrugge Navy Days 2010

The open days at the Belgian Navy base always attracts some special helicopters. This year a US Navy Seahawk was boarded on the deck of USS Mount Withney, but the Sea King stole the show with a great display between the ships.


Opendagen Koninklijke luchtmacht 2010 - part 2

Part 2 of the showdays is all about noise, afterburners, fighters, displayteams and lots more, enjoy...


Opendagen Koninklijke luchtmacht 2010 - part 1

Part 1 of the showdays are the helicopter displays and displayteams. One of the main showitems was again the airpowerdemo which shows what the RNLAF is really doing, always very impressive.


Opendagen Koninklijke luchtmacht 2010 - arrivals

After 5 years there was again a big airshow at Gilze Rijen. GRAS spotters organised a perfect spottersday for the arrivals of the airshow. There were some great participants in the flying display as well as the static display.


Gilze Rijen, 3/06/2010

Once again some nice weather lead us to the big helicopterbase in the Netherlands. This time, only apaches were flying, but we were lucky that 2 paid a visit to the famous slopes.


Woensdrecht, 20/04/2010

Due to the ashcloud over Europe, our trip to Frisian flag was cancelled, but the nice weather on Tuesday took me for 2 hours of spotting in Woensdrecht with lots of PC-7's.


Reims-Champagne, 21/05/2010

With the closure of Reims in our mind we had already a long time plans to visit Reims for some F-1 action. We were lucky and saw 8 different aircraft on a Friday in very nice weather.

 

> Picture galleries 2010

Picture gallery 2010

Galleries including various basevisits in Europa and some of the biggest Aircraft museums in the UK

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> Picture galleries 2009

Picture gallery 2009

Galleries including various airshows in Europa and a great trip to Switzerland.

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> Picture galleries 2008

Picture gallery 2008

Galleries including trips to Switzerland, Wittmund (home of the mighty Phantom), Ramstein, Cambrai, Florennes (TLP) and airshows like Farnborough and Kecskemet.

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> Picture galleries 2007

Pictures gallery 2007

Galleries including the RAF Jaguar farewell, trips to Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Coningsby. And many airshows like Biggin Hill, Volkel and Le Bourget.

To view all picturegalleries from 2007, click on the thumbnail.

> About us

We, Tom and Wim, live in De Panne (Belgium west-coast), close to Koksijde airbase, and are passionated by aviation since we were young. In 1998 we started photographing and visiting airshows and other aviation events in Belgium and surrounding countries. Since then we created a nice photocollection of many different aircraft types from around the world. Living under the approach of Koksijde airbase we can regulary be found near our "homebase". In 2002 we created the website of Spotting Group Koksijde, bringing the local aviation enthousiast together.

Some of our photographs have allready been published in magazines (Scramble magazine, Aermacchi world, Revista Aeronautica, Volare,...), company publications, aviation websites (www.airliners.net , www.airshows.be ,...), airshow publications,... High resolution photographs can be arranged by contacting us via e-mail.

If you have questions or remarks, don't hesitate to contact us via email (contact@sgkoksijde.be).

> Equipment

Since 2005 we changed to digital photography. The equipment we use is Canon material enabeling us to shoot high quality photographs in all ranges and in different types of weather conditions.

  • Canon EOS20D body
  • Canon EOS40D body (2x)
  • Canon EOS7D body
  • Canon EF-S 17-85mm F4-5.6 IS USM
  • Canon EF 24-105mm F4.0L IS USM
  • Canon EF 70-200mm F4L IS USM (2x)
  • Canon EF 400mm F5.6L USM
  • Canon EF 1.4x Extender II (2x)
  • Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM

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