Static Display,  17/19 June 2004

During the show days I was able to leave my working spot for some moments to take some nice sunny shots of the static display. At the beginning of the static display a red-white-blue painted F-16 was parked. This (wfu) F-16 was painting in the familiar prototype color scheme of the 70s, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the F-16 in Dutch service.

It was very disappointing to see only some Dutch, Belgian and Italian F-16s at Volkel AB. The main theme was the anniversary of the Dutch F-16, so I expected at least some more F-16 users. There were even some Norwegian and Danish F-16s parked at Leeuwarden for the FWIT. So why not invite them?

Anyway, I'm happy introduced the plan to invite the Italian F-16s to the organization, which resulted in two nice participants. At the time I walked across the static display, the Royal Navy Harrier were still in covers. This was very disappointing as I didn't had the time to wait for them to remove the covers. The camouflaged AMX of the Italians was one of my personal favorites.