What/where is Iqaluit? Sorry for my ignorance! 😮

Iqaluit is located in Baffin Island, Nunavut, CANADA. if you can’t find it on the map, just look at Greenland and you’ll see a big island (smaller than Greenland, though) below Greenland.

we have a runway (smaller than 10,000ft though) and Iqaluit is a good spot for cold weather tests for new aircraft, especially during the cold winter months. seen the big Antonovs, Illyshins?!, Galaxies, Globemasters, even the Airbus A380. military fighters do stop-over and all sorts of civilian planes, too, but it’s like the most stop-overs are usually international airliners that had to make an unexpected landing. usually it’s the passenger/s that gets a heart attack or other sudden illnesses and the planes have to land.

this is a screen shot i took from a video called “elegant bird” …

“Les Chevaliers Du Ciel”

check-out the clips that i mixed together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To3BlS8CSY0

not fully full-frontal but i just had to add this…

Su-25UTG

Thunderbolt II…

i think if i remember the Tornado ADV was the cover photo with Jane’s Aircraft Recognition Book from the 80s (with some missiles) just banking away frontal but not full-frontal…

anyone with the Tornado ADV FR3?! taken from the Hercules with its ramp open taken from the 80s??

C-17…