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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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Latest additions
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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. |
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Opendagen Koninklijke luchtmacht
2010 - part 2
Part 2 of the showdays is all about
noise, afterburners, fighters, displayteams and lots more,
enjoy... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Picture galleries 2010
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Picture gallery
2010
Galleries including various basevisits
in Europa 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 Europa 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.
To view all picturegalleries from
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 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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