TFL photo tread

It’s a pleasure. 🙂 If TFL are going to attend the event at Oostmalle next sunday; I will add some more pics of this final appearence.

J.V.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful and unique set of pictures, Jochen.

Last week there was some more bad news for TFL. They are based at EBKT in Belgium. This airport has 2 runways. One concrete and one grass strip. Last week it was decided to close the grass runway. It is forbidden to use it now. This will cause more restrictions to operate the biplanes (which are built to operate from grass). So this is another set back. 🙁

Next week, TFL is going to make its last appearence at Oostmalle in Belgium on september 5th. This is not yet fully confermed. It could be the last time that you can see the team. There are some doubts if the team will be back next year. :confused: But the planes will be maintained in airworthy condition and flown occasionaly.

To close for now 2 pics of other planes of TFL:
1. Bucker Bu133 during march 2004. It is reported to be sold to Glenn Lacey, but still rests at EBKT.
2. A rare recent pic, made uppon arrival at EBKT in february 2004 of Hawker Fury MK1 G-BKBB. It had just made its ferryflight from Old Warden. This was its only flight in 3 years. It is now stored (in full airworthy condition) at EBKT. With thanks to J. Vanhulle.

J.V.

I will add some more pics to this tread. Next to come are pics os the Wings and wheels event which TFL attended with all its remaining planes. The event took place at Ursel (Belgium) on 7 and 8 august.

This was also the last appearence of the Viima for this year. A Technical problem has grounded the aircraft for the rest of the season.

J.V.

Next week, they will attend WAW with their 6 vintage planes + extraviation’s SV4b. I hope to get some nice pics from Ursel!

PS: the Bucker Bu133C (OO-EII) which is reported as sold to Mr. Lacey in the UK is still in Belgium.

Cheers,
J.V.

In July, the Legends attended a show in calais, but I couldn’t be there. (sometimes I just have to work 🙁 ). They attended with several planes such as the Boeing Stearman.
They cancelled their participation at the Koksyde open days during early july due to very bad weather and heavy winds. they couldn’t get airborne without risks.

Now, the team flew some of their biplanes for the first time in 3 weeks to practice for the WAW event next week at Ursel.

Some pics:

Small update:

I had contact with the PR of The Flying Legends and they told me that OO-SVT also attended the stampe Fly-inn that day but had to leave earlier. So they attended with 3 planes after all.

J.V.

TFL made a static appearance for one day at the Stampe Fly-inn during this weekend. They attended the event with two of their planes: The SV4c OO-LYR and DH82 OO-TGM.

Here the proof that they have been at EBAW:

I am glad you can enjoy it! Thanks guys. The camera I learn to use is a Minolta Dimage 7Hi. I never took any detailed photos before. Previous years, my father did most of the photo-work. I bought my camera last winter and started to practice. I don’t think it looks bad.

Nice tailwheel indeed AW.

Greets,
J.V.

Absolutely great… Many thanks as always…
Interesting to note the Tiger has a discreet tailwheel…
OAW

Nice…

Stieglitz
Thanks for posting.
Great pictures.
Post more when you can.
Andy 🙂 🙂 🙂

Beautiful Pics

Thanks for sharing them
What sort of camera did you use

Kindest regards
John parker

If I take some more pics during this year, I will post them in this tread. If someone should have pics of this group, they are welcome here.

For some more news on TFL, you can take a look here:

http://forum.airforces.info/showthread.php?t=24290

To close for now, a pic of the Legends in front of the tower of EBKT for refueling and some pics of the planes during the taxi back to the hangar:

Greets,

J.V.

The problems with the Stearman where solved so it could join the formation for this trip. Here are some pics:

Next one to land was the unique flying finnish VL Viima:

And now two photos of the Moth. On the second pic, you will notice that the grass had recently been mowed at EBKT :p .

And the SV4d. This was a acrobatic SV4 which was built with a 180hp Lycoming engine. This gave the SV4 a power boost. Some SV4c where converted to SV4d status for this reason. Also the maintenance of the Lycoming engine is more easy than the Renault engine.

Second in line was the SV4c OO-LYR which is flying more frequently now. It was not very active during 2003 due to engine problems but it has been flown more during the last months.

And now in the planes during their landing:

First that came in was the Morane: