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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.
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Beauvechain basevisit - 02/05/2011
Gilze Rijen Aviation Society (GRAS)
managed to organise an excellent base visit to Beauvechain.
I was lucky enough to join the group to Belgians biggest airbase
(quantity of aircraft concerned). The weather was perfect with
a clear blue sky all day long, and the marchetti's were flying
very busy. We also got the premiére of the first 4 aircraft
that were repainted in Red Devils colours. As the Bierset agustas
moved in the year before, it was even more interesting to visit
the base. |
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Beauvechain basevisit - W&R
02/05/2011
Beauvechain has a lot of wrecks and
relics all over the airfield, and not only airplanes. Also the
museum has a really nice collection, just a shame that the aircraft
can not be protected to the force of nature when they are exibited
in open air. |
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Cambrai - 16/01/2012
With the closure of BA103 Cambrai
comming really close now, Cambrai was already long on my "to
do list". Waiting some months now for some cold but sunny
weather with eastern wind, 16 January finally was a day I'm
waited for. Flying activity was pretty good for Cambrai standards
with 4 different planes that day and 10 flights. Light was
just perfect as you can see on the pictures. Enjoy one of
the last pictures of the beautifull M2000C with 103 codes
applied. |
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Odiham Families
day - 10/08/2011
Bronco Demo Team was invited to
take part to the Odiham familiesdays, and as part of the team
we went along. Weather was just perfect, sunshine all day
long, and not too warm. Flying display was more like an airshow
than a families day. It contained almost all RAF displays
(Chinook offcourse, Apache, Tornado Role demo, Tutor, Tucano,
Beech 200, Hawk, RNHF Sea Fury), but some nice civil displays
too like F-86, B-17, Aerostars, The Blades, O'briens flying
circus, Skyraider, AN-2 and Jet Provost. So a great day spent
in the UK. |
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Gilze Rijen - 2011
Some visits to Gilze Rijen resulted
in some great pictures of the home based aircraft as well
as some visitors. |
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Picture galleries 2011
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Picture gallery
2011
Galleries including various basevisits
in Europe.
To view all picturegalleries from
2011, click on the thumbnail |
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Picture galleries 2010
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Picture gallery
2010
Galleries including various basevisits
in Europe and some of the biggest Aircraft museums in the
UK
To view all picturegalleries from
2010, click on the thumbnail |
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Picture galleries 2009
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Picture gallery
2009
Galleries including various airshows
in Europe and a great trip to Switzerland.
To view all picturegalleries from
2009, click on the thumbnail |
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Picture galleries 2008
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Picture gallery
2008
Galleries including trips to Switzerland,
Wittmund (home of the mighty Phantom), Ramstein, Cambrai,
Florennes (TLP) and airshows like Farnborough and Kecskemet.
To view all picturegalleries from
2008, click on the thumbnail |
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Picture galleries 2007
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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.
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2007, click on the thumbnail. |
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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).
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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.
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Canon EOS 40D body (2x)
Canon EOS 7D body
Canon EOS 5D Mark II 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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