A week of historic aircraft spotting in Belgium (lots of pics!)

And then they left for DX:

They did a short display on the way at the Historic Dockyard at Chatham for the VE Day celebrations…

Lovely sight….

Jochen, check your mail asap, I need info for the tickets to Madrid.
Gr Roger

Just a small thing 00-31 is a Jodel (D.9 I think).

If I take a look, I must admit that it does look like a Jodel.

Cheers AW!

Stieglitz

Spitfire TD135

Any sightings yet, in Belgium, of the Spitfire project TD135?

Mark

Nice work & real aeroplanes too!!! Liked the forum meet photo too

Just a small thing 00-31 is a Jodel (D.9 I think). 😮
p.s. The VAC have a new web site – check out the thread in GA 🙂

Great stuff, Stieglitz. Loved the Spitfire stuff, but the WW1 aircraft were very interesting 🙂

Hi Jochen,

So noticed the trick works? But only when there is a good mix of daylight indoors. In the Aviodrome you can forget this way of shooting. Did you notice that PaulC is showing a lot of Madrid stuff on the forum? Have a look and you know what you can expect. BW Roger

When I left for home after another day at the fly-in, I saw 2 newly restored planes which are owned by the owner who operates the yellow SV4 at moorsele (see top of the page). Both planes should fly again very soon:

Stampe SV4C OO-EFN:

Tipsy Trainer II OO-EOT:

That makes the circle complete!

I wat to thak everybody who helped me to make this week unforgetable for me (you know who you are).

Many thanks!

Stieglitz

Oh yes, now I recall I met Roger S who shared some tips about how to take pics inside a museum. Here is the result:

Albatros:

Sopwith Camel:

Fokker DrI:

Nieuport 11:

Nieuport 28:

Fokker DVII being painted:

Stampe SV4B OO-BPL painted to represent the SV4 in which Mike Donnet escaped from occupied Belgium to th UK in WWII:

And the single seat Stampe Sv4B OO-GWD:

Finaly, the V1:

Also a big formation of Stampe Biplanes was also present this year:

And next to that a few other classics such as this chipmunk:

SORRY ROGER, as you see, some of them are coming! 😉

You went to the Stampe Meet and you don’t show us any Stampes? :dev2:

I returned on Sunday, just to see the departure of the Spitfires which made several nice passes over the field.

Here are some more pics of these machines:

IAC161 starts its engine:

Goodbye!

And then they left for DX:

That day, I had a great meet with some great people:

Seen on the pic below are in random order: Rats (United Kingdom), Galdri (Iceland), Ed Russel (Canada) and Stieglitz (Belgium):

Also on saturday, the Fokker DVIII which was rebuilt after a landing accident at Schaffen some years ago had an engine run:

The engine was tested after the Spit had rested at the Antwerp museum during the winter:

Around noon, a second spit was pulled out of the museum. This was Spitfire MK XIV.

And then came the event of the week: The Stampe Fly-in at the airfield of Antwerp.

I had plans to go on sunday, but in the end, I went both days. I got the info that there might be something interesting there (thanks rats).

And here it is; The unannounced HFL Spitfire Tr9 😎 :

A few days later, I went to the open door at Braschaat. There you could see 2 of the Vormezeele planes. The Fiat G46 OO-VOR and the Harvard MK IIB OO-DAF.

Here some pics of the Harvard:

And now the single seat Fiat G-46:

The Harvard and the Fiat flew later that day, but I had to leave earlier for work.