Norway, Kjevik AP Airshow 2012

Scanor,

depends whether the AF was involved in getting you access and at what conditions.
Although budgets are tight they should offer some form of compensation if they want to use your photos.

They did’t get me nothin’ actually. I was standing outside the showarea as I often am.. I drove down to Kjevik (about 200 miles from where I live) on my own accord and nothing was sponsored by other than me.

But I do agree. They have budgets, but they aint that tight over here.

Scanor,

depends whether the AF was involved in getting you access and at what conditions.
Although budgets are tight they should offer some form of compensation if they want to use your photos.

Thanks a mill for enjoying my pics fellas I really appriciate it 🙂

Got a mail from the RNoAF press office today and they would like the Airforce related ones.. but they where not intrested in any payment or compensation in any way.. Needless to say I feel alittle bummed out and I’m now thinkin about leting them have it or not.. I’m thinkin if they want highres they can afford to atleast give me somethin’.

What yall think ?

Lightningspirit, yea the end of RWA04 basicly is the seafront.. actually the runninglights are mounted on poles situated in the water. There is a beach just on the other side from the Airport called Hamresanden. and if you ever go to Kjevik to spot planes and need a brake, trust me, in the summer there is plenty other to spot at that beach, if you catch my drift 😉

Kristiansand area girls are very nice 😀

Now you’ve got me thinking about going again!

Remembering my experiences at Kristiansand I can totally agree with you there! I guess it wouldn’t only be aircraft that I would be returning for! 😉

Something tells me you enjoyed tourself!

The Vampires are awesome.

First class photos, they are all excellent but the Vampires are special. Well done.

Some fantastic shots,, whats with “The Saint” graphic on the tail of the P3? I liked it. Any shots with a spitfire in it gets my attention, must be a “brit” thing, lol

The P-3 is from 333rd sqd based at Andøya AB (a place so windy the freakn asphalt has been blown away from the runway and local roads more than once..). Anyhow 333rd has a callsign like most AF sqds do..you can guess what it is…. Nooo kiddn it’s “Saint” so I guess you can figure it out from there. 🙂

Lightningspirit, yea the end of RWA04 basicly is the seafront.. actually the runninglights are mounted on poles situated in the water. There is a beach just on the other side from the Airport called Hamresanden. and if you ever go to Kjevik to spot planes and need a brake, trust me, in the summer there is plenty other to spot at that beach, if you catch my drift 😉

Kristiansand area girls are very nice 😀

I once flew into Kjevik back in 1995 I think it was, in a Maersk 737. The only reason why this thread reminded me was of that flight into Kjevik in that 737. I visited the Quart Festival that year, so I did get to have a good look round lovely Kristiansand and the very nice people, totally loved it there! I think I should have been born in Norway! It seemed at the time that the pilot wasn’t that confident that he was going to be able to stop before the end of the runway as it was torrential rain at the time. It is right that there is coast line very close to the end of the runway? Well not only that but the pilot had to make a steep bank to dog leg into the valley to line up with the runway. It was impressive flying what with his commentry on the uses of the runway during the war. I’m sure that there was a Spitfire airframe on the airfield that could be seen, maybe some other airframe.
I do remember departing to Copenhagen in a more appropriate Maersk Fokker 50, with the best airline food I have ever had!
Thanks for the info about getting to those airports, if only I could afford it and have the time to do all that!
Thanks for that youtube clip!

Martin

Some fantastic shots,, whats with “The Saint” graphic on the tail of the P3? I liked it. Any shots with a spitfire in it gets my attention, must be a “brit” thing, lol

All pics are brilliant —Love the Vampires !!

Some stunning shots there! I thought that Kristiansand was having some bad weather that day as us in the UK had some awful weather at the time. I saw the Catalina fly over us on the way there on the Friday then came right over our house on the way back. Would be nice to see that Red White & Blue F16 over here for a display. Nice little airport to display from, was there a big attendance?

Martin

Thanks 🙂

the weather was perfect, ’bout 20C and CAVOK. Some of the F-16 shots are from the friday practice runs, the rest is from saturdays show. It’s hard to guess but I’d say the crowd was like 15-18000 or so.. it was a helluva traffic jam to say the least. Kristiansand aint the largest city ever, but for the area I’d say it was a fearly big turnout.

Yea that viper display was really nice. I aint ever seen nothin like that here in Norway for many years. The last one that had a cool rutine was Maj “Pea” Ertsgaard back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. But the RNoAF aint ever had a viper for display use only. BTW the jet is 80-3686 tail nr “686. It will show off on sevral occations here in Norway the next months. Next is at NATO Tigermeet at Orland AB next week.

Then at Kjeller AP on june 3’rd (kjeller is just outside of Oslo and from the UK you can fly into direct from London Heatrow to Oslo Gardermoen airport, catch a train to Lillestrøm station and a cab or a bus from there it’s about two miles to Kjeller AP. Both SAS Scandinavian, British Airways and Norwegian.NO has a number of flights a day. You can catch an early flight into OSL and a late flight outta there. no problem.

Then on June 16-17th at Bodø in Northen Norway (you can fly into there from Oslo, but be aware that most hotells are full for that weekend). This will be the main show this year. Furthermore at Andøya Airbase the following weekend, Gjeiteryggen/Skien Airport on Aug 25th and a show that is set over Oslo harbur on Sept 1’st.

I aint sure if it will fly abroad this year.. but I doubt it..

Here is a vid from inside the cocpit during the rutine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwTB-WHbRig&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLo2IylqbfT6hdLpid3LVmyg

“Wow” a great set and some nicely caught.Vampire pair are so good.Cheers..:)

Some stunning shots there! I thought that Kristiansand was having some bad weather that day as us in the UK had some awful weather at the time. I saw the Catalina fly over us on the way there on the Friday then came right over our house on the way back. Would be nice to see that Red White & Blue F16 over here for a display. Nice little airport to display from, was there a big attendance?

Martin

Awesome shots! Wish I had been there! 🙂

Great set of photos 🙂

Lovely shots.

And the last ones.

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