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Keflavik Airport
Had the opportunity to photograph the first landing of the new Boeing 787
Dreamliner at Keflavik. It arrived at 0635 and the light was nothing to
write home about, but this was a historic event. The aircraft will stay in
Iceland for some days for numerous tests, particularly crosswind tests.
Keflavik has been used before by both Boeing and Airbus for such trials, as
Keflavik is known for the ease of operations during certain times of the
day, when there is practically no traffic, and usually the wind can be
counted on to blow across either of the main runways. Icelandair Group has
ordered four of these aircraft. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Southern Iceland
On August 27 I had the opportunity and privilege to photograph the only
flying Sikorskly S-38B in the world on its way from Reykjavík to
Wick, Scotland, and eventually to Berlin and Zurich. Some real aviators in
that mission, which is in support of charitable organizations. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Sandskeið
On August 17, the Thoroddsen landing contest was held for the first time at the Sandskeið airport, the headquarters of the Iceland Gliding Club. I concentrated
on getting shots of props in action, both landing and takeoff. They are all
taken with a 100-400 mm lens and a shutter speed of 1/100-1/160 second. A
lot were fuzzy but here is the best of the crop. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar
On August 5 and 8, 2010, I photographed TF-ULV in action close to its home
field of Tungubakkar. The 50 year old plane has been extensively refurbished
and inspected and probably is better that new. One of the owners, Guðni
Þorbjörnsson flew it for me on both occasions. The colors stand out from the
background, and surprisingly the cover shot like all the others taken in
rather dull conditions on the evening of the 5th, show how the color stands
out even in these dull conditions. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Múlakot
On July 30, 2010, I attended the flyin at the annual Private Pilots
Association at the Múlakot airfield. This field is close to the recently erupted
Eyjafjallajökull volcano, and got a measure of the ash. This can be seen in
some of the landing and takeoff photos, if you look at the wheels in the
grass, and also the propeller wash. This makes some of the photos almost
surreal. Everyone always has great fun at these flyins. In some of the
shots, the passengers in the right hand seat can be seen dropping small bags, to
try to hit a small target circle on the ground. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Haukadalsmelar
On July 24, 2010, I photographed the action at the annual flyin of the
flying club Thytur which is held at the private airfield of Haukadalsmelar,
close to the famous volcano, Hekla. There is always great fun and
cameraderie at these meets, the families camp out and cheer their pilots in
the competions, which this time included a short field takeoff contest and the usual precision landing contest."
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Tungubakkar
On July 10, 2010, I photographed the action at the 40th anniversary of the
model club Þytur at Tungubakkar airfield in Mosfellsbær. This was a superb
show with a great number of members models flying and shown static in one of
the Moso Flying Club hangars. The anniversary show was also graced by the
visit of one of the worlds most renowned flyers of flying scale models, Ali
Machinchy and his assistant, Duncan Horlor.
They displayed a superb model of the Eurofighter or Typhoon and
the flying was astonishing to say the least. It is so fast, like some other models
in this show, that it is very hard to get good size photos of it, except when in slow flight maneuvers. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar
On June 24 the first part of the annual Silver Jodel precision landing
contest was held after three aborts due to high winds. The first photos in
this photogallery depict some of the action. The second part is from the evening of July 8, the TF-DAB evening, but each plane located at Tungubakkar has its own Thursday evening get together. Guests and relatives are welcome and usually there are cakes and coffee. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Hella
On July 3, 2010, I had the opportunity to fly a photomission with DC-3,
TF-NPK named Páll Sveinsson. The mission was to drop a cargo in Iceland. My
aim was to get some air to air photos of the DC-3 in the finish adopted for
the mission and to record it flying with the cargo doors open, like it was
used on different occasions during its lifetime with Flugfélag Íslands
during the years 1946 to 1973. This mission took place and the drop was at
22:57, which meant that all the photos were taken at ISO 640 and the side on
ones were taken through the rear windows of Cessna 180, TF-KAH as there was
a cameraman in the front seat. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Akureyri
On June 20, 2010, I had the opportunity to fly in an Gippsland Airvan
belonging to the Norlandair Airline in Akureyri for the purpose of
photographing one of their recently repainted Twin Otters. We took about
half an hour for the mission. The air in the Eyjafjörður area was a bit
unstable, so I was unable to use very slow shutter speeds, but was still
able to get some movement visible in the props. It was a bit scary to sit in
the rear cabin with the large size door completely open, and nothing but the
seatbelt to hold me in place, and the sea and ground about 2000 fet below. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Akureyri
On June 19, 2010, the annual aviation weekend of the Icelandic Aviation
Museum was held at Akureyri. Here you can see a sample of what was on
display during the airshow. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjanes
On June 8, 2010, I and Kristinn Svavarsson undertook a photomission in
Cessna 172RG, Cutlass, TF-ASI to photograph two Cirrus aircraft in the air.
Before we started out the weather was sunny, but when we got airborne it had
become cloudy and the photos show that. Also the air over the Reykjanes
peninsula was rather rough and we had a bumpy ride. Therefore there was not
much room for experiments with slow shutter speed. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
On June 5, 2010, an airshow was organised at Reykjavík airport. A number of
people arrived to view the show, and admittance was free. As can be expected
when the economic conditions are unsettled, the number of aircraft
participating was less that at some earlier shows. Older showgoers commented
on that, but the younger generation and most enthusiasts were really happy
that there was an airshow at all, in spite of all the financial woes here in
Iceland. I applaud the organisers for getting this together and all the
participants, which of course do not recover a penny for their time and
costs. These are the true enthusiasts of flying in Iceland. Note that there
will be gatherings around the country all summer long see
here. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Keflavík.
On June 1, 2010, six F-4Fs from the German Air force landed at Kefalvik
airport for the start of Nato airspace patrols over Iceland. Three came in
at around noon, but three had to divert to Scotland becoause of tanker
problems, but arrived later in the day. On June 2. the Phantoms started with
the ususal style of Phantom crews and three aircraft went out for excercises
both in the morning an afternoon. The first thirteen photos show landings
and takeoffs on June 2, and the next seven show the arrival of the three on
June 1. The last photo shows the Atlantic named Graf Zeppelin. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
I and my chief pilot, Capt. Sigurjón Valsson took off from Mosó at approx
1000 hours on the 26th of May 2010 and with us was a Cessna of the Skyhawk
family with retratable landing gear, called Cutlass RG II. Its pilot,
Kristinn Svavarsson was going to give us an opportunity to get some air to
air photos of this sleeker version of the Skyhawk. The photos are 1280
pixels wide. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
I and my chief pilot, Capt. Sigurjón Valsson took off at 14.20 in Cap 10B,
TF-UFO to endeavour to photograph some of the aircraft that have been a
constant companion to the eruption since it began on March 23. We could not
fly our usual photoship, Cessna 170 TF-GMG, as it has been constantly booked
for members of the Moso flying club,from sunup to sundown every day since
the start of the eruption. We had long since decided to see how
photographing throught the canopy of TF-UFO would come out, and now we did
not have anything else. The photos speak for themselves, there were some
reflections, but mostly minimal. Also the size of the aircraft and my
proximity to the canopy side, precluded anything but a 28-70 mm lens,
instead of the usual 70-200. This of course meant less distance between the
aircraft and Sigurjons skill was ably demonstrated once more in a difficult
situation. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
Four Danish Air Force F-16As landed ak Keflavik Airport at 15:45 on Tuesday
March 2, to start the 2010 season of Nato airspace patrols. At this moment
nobody really knows how long these patrols are going to continu, but these
four Vipers will stay untill March 30. They started flying today, March 4
and one of their first places to visit was Akureyri where my friend Hörður
Geirsson caught some shots under extremely difficult lighting conditions,
almost straight upsun. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
My new book is just out. It contains 160 photographs of airplanes taken
during 2009 and most of them air-to-air over Icleland. The last section of
the book was taken in England during the Flying Legends airshow on July
10-12. The captions are both in Icelandic and English. It is available in most bookstores and from the author at the link below. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar.
A few photos depicting a short photo sortie to provide some air to air photos
of Cherokee TF-POU
for an upcoming upgraded web for the Mosfellsbær flying club.
FKM.is Sigurjón Valsson was my pilot in Cessna 170, TF-GMG and Ómar
Bjarnason was flying TF-POU. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar.
A few photos depicting a short photo sortie to provide some air to air photos
of Skyhawk TF-KLM
for an upcoming upgraded web for the Mosfellsbær flying club.
FKM.is. Guðni Þorbjörnsson was my pilot in Cessna 170, TF-GMG and
Þengill Oddson was flying TF-KLM. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjanes.
A few photos depicting three new aircraft for the
Keilir Aviation Academy These are two Diamond DA-40 and one Diamond Da-42. These are brand new
aircraft of glass fibre construction and with diesel engines that burn jet
fuel. They are much more fuel efficent than aircraft with conventional avgas
engines. Further they have all new glass instrumentation in line with the
latest commercial aircraft. Sigurjón Valsson was my pilot in Cessna 170, TF-GMG. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar.
A few photos depicting three seperated missions to photograph aircraft
from Tungubakkar. First was Soccata Rallye TF-OSK with pilot, owner Karl Ísleifsson. Then we caught up with Ingvar V aldimarsson
flying Piper Clipper TF-DAB, which just recently was refurbished by the
TF-KAK group at Tungubakkar. Last up was Cessna 185, TF-ELX piloted by owner
Steingrímur Friðriksson. An extra bonus in the form of Cessna 150L, TF-FTB
piloted by Bergur Ingi Bergsson showed up on the way back to Tungubakkar and
made for a delightful subject, even if it was upsun. It has recently been
completely repainted and glistened in the sun, So did the others having been
shined for the photo session. Hafsteinn Jónasson was my pilot in Cessna 170, TF-GMG. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar.
A few photos
from the second part of the precision landing contest at
Tungubakkar on August 5, 2009. The Mosfellsbær Flying Club hosts a two part
contest, early summer and late fall, and the lowest score from either or
both wins the contest. This time, the winner was the Sigurjón Valsson flying
Mudry Cap 10, TF-UFO, that is depicted in the leading photo. The second part of the page is taken as a guest at the field returned home after the contest finished. He was flying the rather special looking PZL 104 Vilga registered with his initials, TF-OGJ. His name is Óskar Guðjón Jóhannsson. Sigurjón Valsson was my pilot in Cessna 170, TF-GMG. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
A few photos
from the arrival of North American B-25D Mitchell named
Grumpy at Reykjavík at 15:30 on Saturday, August 30. I had been authorised
to go and photograph it over Iceland, but various last minute problems with
photoships and pilots almost scrapped the mission. It was not really on
untill about 30 minuted before the landing of the B-25. Þorsteinn Jónsson en
experianced pilot, arranged for a Cessna 172 Skyhawk from the Icelandic
Flying School and flew it himself, to rescue the mission. The B-25 pilots
were rather surprised to find out that we were over Reykjavík, having
expected to meet my plane around the airfield of Bakkar in South Iceland,
but cooperated with us for some good photographs. Big thanks go to the ATC
people at Reykjavík airport without whom this could never have been realized
with the time constraints we had in the end. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar.
A few photos
from one of the flying days instigated by Einar Páll
Einarsson, legendary model and airplane builder,
held at the airfield of Tungubakkar in Mosfellsbær. This event sees all
kinds of large radio controlled models displayed and flown, and these are
certainly flying machines or small pilotless airplanes. Some are built
without representing any full size flying objects, but some are masterpieces
of smaller scale reproductions of the full size airplanes that have graced
the skies in earlier years. The photos will speak for themselves and the
skill of the builders/flyers. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Vestmanneyjar.
A few photos
from a mission to the Vestman Islands to photograph the
aircraft of the Vestman Islands Airline. We got some intersting backgrounds
and did three seperate missions, one for each aircraft. The cooperation of
the people of the airline was invaluable and made for the interesting views
you see here. In this series I have some photos where I am trying to show the movement of the propellers. This is fraught with all kinds of difficulties and a lot of photos become blurred due to the long exposure times and the long lens (70-200 mm) which do not really go together. But there are a few gems inbetween and they make it all worth it. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Múlakot.
A few photos
from the annual family gathering of the Icelandic Private
Pilots Association at Múlakot in the southern part of Iceland. I was
fortunate enough to be able to photograph in the air some historically
important planes on this occasion, as well as a flying Icelandic legend,
Magnús Norðdahl, who at the age of 82 is still flying aerobatics so that the
younger generation has a hard time keeping up with him. ´He is flying
Zlin.
TF-ABC in these photos. In this series I have some photos where I am trying to show the movement of the propellers. This is fraught with all kinds of difficulties and a lot of photos become blurred due to the long exposure times and the long lens (70-200 mm) which do not really go together. But there are a few gems inbetween and they make it all worth it. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Haukadalsmelar.
A few photos
from the annual gathering of the flying club Thytur at the
private airfield at Haukadalsmelar close to the volcano Hekla. Here all
kinds of pilots fly for fun and with the family. A number of these pilots fly
professionally for commercial airlines and other concerns. They feel the
freedom of the small planes and the countryside. In this series I have a
few photos where I am trying to show the movement of the propellers. This is
fraught with all kinds of difficulties and a lot of photos become blurred
due to the long exposure times and the long lens (100-400 mm) which do not
really go together. But there are a few gems inbetween and they make it all
worth it. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Duxford.
A few photos
from one of the greatest airhows in the world, featuring old
aircraft that are now legends. These are mostly from the Second World War,
but also some both older and newer but all of the ones present are powered
by piston engines. The show is held by The Fighter Collection based at
Duxford and is very well organized, No dead moments and the sound is
incredible. I have not had time to do any comments with the photos. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík.
A few photos of the arrival of the brand new Coast Guard plane, TF-SIF. It
is a Bombardier Dash 8-300 and has the latest detection and communication
equipment fitted. It replaces the old Fokker F-27 Friendship, TF-SYN, that
served all its time in the Coast Guard service and has now been retired.
Lets hope that this SIF is as versatile and successful as its predecessor.
It is also the fourth plane in the Coast Guard service to carry the name of
the Norse Goddess SIF who of course os the wife of the Norse God Thor. The
earlier three aircraft were: 1. C-54B Skymaster 2. Aerospatiale SA-365 Dauphin 3. Aerospatiale SA-365N Dauphin. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Mosfellsheiði.
A few photos of the ferry flight of TF-GMG from Geitamelur to Tungubakkar in
Mosfellbær. In these photos one can see the difference between shooting at
1/250 sec and 1/100 sec. At the slower speed the prop movment is much more
visible. This may have been the only chance to photograph TF-GMG with the
attractive wheel spats, as they have now been removed to make way for larger
tires. Note that the the first photo shows the plane in the hands of the old
owners, in Reykjavík on October 11, 2008. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Akureyri.
Some action moments from the flying festival at Akureyri. This time I was
aiming for more of a prop movement effect that stationary looking props or
almost so. This means using a shutter speed as low as 1/60th of a second in
some cases and up to 1/100. With a handheld 100-400 mm lens, even with
stabilisation, more shots will be blurry that before, but the ones
that come out ok are in my opinion better. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Flúðir.
Some action moments from the flyin at the small country field of Flúðir near
the village of the same name. There is a small but active enthusiast group
there and the field has a control tower, a hangar and a dirt runway with a
grass strip beside it. The visitors and local people had a grand time on
Saturday, June 13. 2009 and a number of the spectators were able to
experience flying in a small airplane or helicopter for the first time. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Tungubakkar.
Some action moments from the precision landing contest. Note the proximity
of the judging team on the far side of the runway. Also visible on some of
the photos is the absolute indifference of the horses and riders on the
other side of the flimsy fence.. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík,
Photo mission to photograph a pair of Cessna 140s, TF-AIB and TF-MRS in
formation and separately ofer the mountains to the east of Reykjavík. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Reykjavík,
Some activity taken at three different dates at the end of runway 01 at
Reykjavík Airport. Baldur@verslo.is |
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F-16s,
Four Danish F-16s are now doing airpace patrols at Keflavik. they arrived on
March 3, and will leave on April 1. These photos were taken April 4. Baldur@verslo.is |
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TF-FUN,
February 10. We went on a test flight to test the disc theory. We wanted to
see which speed and lens would give us the best photos for displaying
movement in the propellers on an air to air photomission. there is a
discussion
subject on Airliners Net on this subject, that might be interesting.
Anyway even if mayn of the photos do not show props, what is visible does
show much movement. Most of the photos were shot at between 1/100s and
1/200s. Baldur@verslo.is |
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TF-FMS and more,
February 4 and 5, 2009. Spent two hours at Reykjavík yesterday for some cold
but sunny shots. The two photos of TF--EIR the Coast Guard Dauphin were taken from my balcony in Asparfell 2, today at noon when it was looking for an active emergency beacon that suddenly started transmitting in the region. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Return to Index | TF-JMB, FFK og GJA, January 25. 2009. A photoflight with Dash 8, TF-JMB, Cessna 180, TF-FFK and Cessna 172, TF-GJA. Both Cessnas belong to the Solfoss flying club. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Return to Index | TF-SGA_FBA, January 13. 2009. A photoflight with TF-SGA and TF-FBA. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Return to Index | WV2 page, January 9. 2009. A long awaited update to my Willie Victor page with photos of the radar equipped Lockheed Super Constellations that flew continous patrols over the North Atlantic in the late 50s and early sixties. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Book,
December 7, 2008. This new book is 120 pages with just about 150
photographs all taken during 2008 over Iceland. It has air to air photos
from both special photo sorties and the defence exercise, Northern Viking
2008. Also coverage of most of the aviation events in Iceland during the
summer. The captions are both in Icelandic and English. It can soon be
bought from the Penninn Eymundsson bookstores and the biggest Bonus stores
also. Copies with a spiral binding for easy viewing on a flat table can be bought from me. Baldur@verslo.is |
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Return to Index | Suðurland, November 1, 2008. Saturday. The Flying clup of Mosfellsbær arranged a group flight to the village of Flúðir in the farmlands of southern Iceland. There were ten in the group and my pilot of Cessna 170, TF-MOS was Hafsteinn Jónasson. Men exhanged position often and flew in many different formations as can be seen. Iceland looks a little cold in these photos even if the temperature was just above zero. |
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Reykjavík,
September 29, 2008. Monday. The first prototype of the Dornier Seastar made
an overnight stop at Reykjavík which turned into two nights, because all the
airports in Greenland are closed over the weekends. Took off this morning
for the US. Later in the day I got a chance to photograph Cessna 172 Skyhawk, TF-EJG from C-152, TF-MID. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, September 25, 2008. Thursday. Went out to get some shots of the Boeing 737-700 that now are starting to operate services for Iceland Espress. Got G-STRF. Also Air Berlin A-320 D-ABDT in some brilliant light. Plus a US C-9 that stopped for fuel. Last but not least the ICG F-27, TF-SYN. The weather was brilliant between heavy rainshowers, as can be seen. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, September 4, 2008. Thursday at Norvik 2008, the final day. Air to air sortie. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, September 3, 2008. Wednesday at Norvik 2008. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, September 2, 2008. Tuesday at Norvik 2008. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, September 1, 2008. Monday at Norvik 2008. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, August 30, 2008. five Boeing CF-18A Hornets from the Canadian Air Force arrive in Keflavik to take part in the Northern Viking 2008 Air Defense exercise. They will exercise with American F-15C Eagles and Norwegian F-16As. The tankers that serve the F-18s have to be able to provide fuel to them via a drogue like most helicopters use for aerial refuelling. There are three KC-135R tankers in Keflavik now, two from Mildenhall. One of them has two wingtip mounted drogue pods in addition to the usual boom, and therefore can refuel all three fighter types. Additionally there is an Airfoce Reserve KC-135R which has a drogue installed in the boom instead of the usual telescoping tube, so it can only refuel the CF-18As. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavík, August 27 2008. Here are some photos from the greetings the Icelandic Olympic Silver medalist handball team received at Reykjavík Airport when they arrived at around 1700. The Coast Guard helicopters, TF-GNA and TF-EIR flew on the 757s wings and the venerable DC-3, TF-NPK made up number four, albeit having to steer clear of the 757s turbulence with 25° flaps. The planes accompanied the team on a celebratory low pass, which is probably also an Olympic record for low approaches by a 757. After landing they received a very wet welcome from the airport firedepartment which is really a symbolic victory arch. There is one picture of the team itself after exiting the plane and waving on the stairs. |
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Reykjavík,
August 15 to 19. 2008. This page shows photos of three types that spent some
time at Reykjavík airport during this timeperiod. Douglas AD-4NA Skyraidar
came from France on the way to the US. the weather over Greenland did not
favour his quick progress so he did not take off until the 19th and shown
here. Lockheed C-130J of the USCG is now here for joint exercises with the Iceland CG and is a beautiful machine. Co-Z Cozy Mark IV, 4X-OYG from Israel had a mishap in landing when the nosewheel fork broke away from the strut and he is still here. |
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Return to Index | Mosó, August 14. 2008. Had a very pleasant flight with two Jodels from Mosfellssveit in the mystical evening light. The pilots were Jón Karl Snorrason flying TV-ULV and Örn Johnson flying TF-ULF. Guðni Þorbjörnsson, who also owns part in TF-ULV was my pilot in Cessna 170 TF-MOS. |
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Return to Index | Múlakot, August 2. 2008. Went to the annual Icelandic Private Pilots Association family flyin and campout at Múlakot field in southern Iceland. the weather was not the best and not at all like forecast, cloudy and 500 foot ceilings for the whole day. There was a fair amount of flying going on and a particularly exuberant display by the pilot of Cessna 170 TF-MOS with low approaches, one wheel landings and snappy takeoffs. Also the annual precision landing contest which is always fun to watch. Thank everybody for their performance and tolerating me trying to be in the right postion for both landings and takeoffs, which is not always easy at the same time. |
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Return to Index | Haukadalsmelar, July 26, 2008. I was invited to a flyin with flying club Þytur which was now held for the 21st consecutive year. They have general fun for a whole weekend, and then there is a precision landing contest in which the most accurate landing on or close to a white painted line on the grass is applauded and now for the first time, the winner was presented with a trophy beaker. Good general fun for the pilots and their families which camp around for the weekend. |
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Return to Index | Mosfellsbær, July 24, 2008. Photographed Cessna 170, Tf-MOS flying with my chief pilot, Sigurjón Valsson at the helm. He took his youngsters and a friend for a short outing and I got permission to follow in Jodel TF-ULV, piloted by Guðni Þorbjörnsson (strange Icelandic lettaer galor in that name). We had a fruitful flight where I could test his plugin cutout in the perspex on the left side. Worked fine except for the front angle on the subject which was difficult. The front angle shots in here were made in a different way. |
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Southcoast, July
16,
2008. Photographed Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Liberty Belle over the South
Coast of Iceland on its way from Wick, Scotland to Keflavik Iceland. My
pilot was Arnar Jónsson and we were flying in Cessna 180, TF-HIS. The
meeting was prearranged with the pilot of the B-17, Ray Fowler. Keflavik July 17. 2008. Four photos from the takeoff at Keflavik which was delayed for five hours due to low visibility at the destination field of Narsarsuak, Greenland. |
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Return to Index | Mosfellsbær, July 7, 2008. Photographed Piper Cub super Cruiser TF-AKK and Citabria TF-MBJ west of the Esja mountain and in Hvalfjörður. |
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Reykjavík,
July 2. 2008. Liberty Belle takes off for
Prestwick, Scotland at 1200 hours. After climbing and going round, she came
in for a low approach of runway 13. A much appreciated and seldom permitted
occurrence for this majestic warbird. July 1, 2008. Boeing B-17G Liberty Belle lands in Reykjavík on its way to England for the Flying Legends airshow at Duxford. It is a very beautiful restoration and many people attended the arrival. See also Friends of TFC (The Fighter Collection) A very beautiful vintage Spartan 7W Executive landed here on June 30. Took off this morning, July 1 headed for Scotland via the Feroe Islands. The owner told me that this is the first of two such planes that he is bringing to the UK via Iceland. The ferry pilot did a nice airshow type pass, turning and banking to the right. As an experiment, the page contains two sets of four photos in different sizes, 1024 and 1200 pixels. |
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Return to Index | Keflavík, June 29, 2008. Photographed a few takeoffs of Icelandair 757s that I had not caught in action before and 737-800 TF-JXD which I had never seen before. |
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Return to Index | Akureyri, June 21, 2008. Photographed a number of interesting planes at the airshow/flyin, among others Beechcraft C-45H, TF-JFA flying and retracting gear for the first time in two years. Yak C11 G-BTUB was very impressive like most of the other flying events. |
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Mosfellsbær, June 13,
2008. Photographed PZL-101 TF-PZL east of Mosfellsbær and Aeronca AC11
TF-LOA west of the Esja mountain. |
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Mosfellsbær, June 12, 2008.
Photographed CAP 10 TF-UFO from Cessna 170, TF-MOS. TF-UFO had a thirtieth
anniversary just last week and is a beautiful airplane. The pilot was
Sigurjón Valsson and my pilot was Elías Erlingsson. As can be seen the cap
is very nimble. Also got a chance to shoot TF-REF one of the Icelandic Jodels with owner and pilot Magnús Víkingur Grímsson at the helm. |
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Hafravatn, June 10, 2008. Arngrímur B. Jóhannsson lands and takes off in
his new DHC Beaver floatplane on the lake Hafravatn close to Reykjavík. It
still carries a ferry registration of N610LC but underneath it we will soon
see TF-ABK. It will be based at Akureyri like all other ABJ planes. |
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Return to Index | Keflavik June 3. The Red Arrows arriving at Keflavik for an overnight stop on the way to a four week American tour. The Arrows always do a textbook formation approach wether permitting when they arrive at an airport. |
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Return to Index | Keflavik June 3. The Red Arrows turn on the smoke when arriving over the runway threshold before perfoming a break with all eleven aircraft making an individual landing in a single stream. |
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Return to Index | Keflavik June 3. The aircraft that has been longest on the Icelandic register, ex Flugfélar Íslands DC-3, TF-ISH Gljáfaxi, now TF-NPK was doing checkflights and landings at Keflavik. |
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Return to Index | Keflavik June 3. The aircraft that has been longest on the Icelandic register, ex Flugfélar Íslands DC-3, TF-ISH Gljáfaxi, now TF-NPK was doing checkflights and landings at Keflavik. |
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Keflavik, June 3, 2008. Daily operations
from Keflavik showing morning landings, afternoon takeoffs and missed
approaches. Snæfellsnes, May 30 2008 on board the Coast Guard Super Puma TF-LIF we meet two French Mirage 2000s at 1000 feet in rather dull weather. |
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Reykjavík May 24, 2008.
The flight week ended with the Reykjavík 2008, airshow
on the 24th of May. The first 19 photos on the page show a group flyin of 21
lightplanes in 7 groupðs from Tungubakkar in Mosfellsbær to BIRK in the
morning. they were then part of the static display. the rest of the photos
are the usual lowpass and aerobatic displays that would make the pilots lose
their licences on a normal day. Here are some photos taken during the display |
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Reykjavík May 20, 2008.
This week is a flight week at BIRK and every day
there is something going on. You can find the schedule at this address (new
window) Flugmálafélag Íslands. Here are some photos taken during the open house at the Icelandic Coast Guard. Click on the photo for a page from the event. |
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Reykjavík May 18, 2008.
This week is a flight week at BIRK and every day
there is something going on. You can find the schedule at this address (new
window) Flugmálafélag Íslands. Here are some photos taken during the open house at the private and flying clubs area of BIRK. Click on the photo for a page from the event. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavík May 5, 2008. The first Dash 8-311 for the Swedish Coast guard stopped over with the Icelandic Coast Guard, giving them a preview of the type they will be receivin next summer. Here basking in the afternoon sun. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavík May 5, 2008. The first Dash 8-311 for the Swedish Coast guard stopped over with the Icelandic Coast Guard, giving them a preview of the type they will be receivin next summer. Here doing a 250 feet pass down runway 19. The weather did not cooperate at this time. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavík May 5, 2008. The first Dash 8-311 for the Swedish Coast guard stopped over with the Icelandic Coast Guard, giving them a preview of the type they will be receivin next summer. Here making its first landing in Europe. The weather did not cooperate at this time. |
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Return to Index | Keflavik May 5, 2008. Four Mirage 2000 of the French Air Aorce arrive at Keflavik airport for six week of air defense. Click on the photo for a six photo page. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, February 29, 2008. Sometimes an impromptu visit turns interesting. I had two hours to kill on a Friday afternoon and in the brilliant weather on leap years day went out to Reykjavík Airport. Saw two aicraft of a type I had not seen before, and was asked if I had time to take some air to air photos of them, as they had just completed their first flight in Iceland with the Geirfugl flying club. When I said yes, three pilots were summoned and off we went. Some of the results are here. Click on the photo to open a page with 14 photos. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, October 14, 2007 at 20:00 hours. Ex Flugfélag Íslands DC-3 / C-47 TF-ISB is loaded onto a flatbet trailer that will carry it into the night and through a backroad route to Keflavik where it will get a hangar for the winter. Shot with a Canon Eos5D at 1600 ASA and 1/40 sec at Aperture. 2.8. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, October 14, 2007. Ex Flugfélag Íslands DC-3 / C-47 TF-ISB is loaded onto a flatbet trailer that will carry it into the night and through a backroad route to Keflavik where it will get a hangar for the winter. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, October 14, 2007. Ex Flugfélag Íslands DC-3 / C-47 TF-ISB is loaded onto a flatbet trailer that will carry it into the night and through a backroad route to Keflavik where it will get a hangar for the winter. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, September 5, 2007. A Lockheed 12A Electra Junior. Built in 1937, this aircraft has a fantastic history. In the first years after construction it participated in numerous air races in the US. During WW2 it flew for the FAFL (Free French Air Force) on anti-submarine patrols, evacuating wooded soldiers, and notably as a transport plane for Corlenel Carretier, Commandant Morel, and the more famous General Maréchal LeClerc and General De Gaulle. Sold in 1946 by French governement, it had three succesives registrations (G-AHLH, EI-ALV, F-BUIE). After years of storage in differents hangars in the south of France it flies again under it first registration NC18130. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, September 5, 2007. A Lockheed 12A Electra Junior landed on runway 19 at approx 19:20 last night and parked at the Flugþjónustan spot. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, August 30 Basler BT-67 Turbo Dakota basks under a full rainbow justa fter arrival at Reykjavík today. Belongs to the Alfred Wegener Institut for polar and oceanographic research. |
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Return to Index | Reykjavik, August 30 Basler BT-67 Turbo Dakota basks under a full rainbow justa fter arrival at Reykjavík today. Belongs to the Alfred Wegener Institut for polar and oceanographic research. |
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Reykjavik, August 23 Björn Thoroddsen has just finished test flying his new Pitts M12 and was taking off for Akureyri today at 15:00 hours. |
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Keflavik, August 14 and refuelling airspace August 15, 2007. Photographed some of the excercise aircraft on the 14th, was flown on a tanker mission, but window covered with hydraulic fluid and unusable for photography. Fortunately the tanker had some writeups so that it got recalled to Mildenhall and me with it. Got back the next morning on the replacement KC-135R. Had the window cleaned before take off and had a very good Boomer, SRA Kelly Donahue, which made sure the fighters posed correctly after refuelling. |
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Reykjavík, August 13, 2007. Was fortunate enough to be able to photograph the only flying DC-3 in Iceland from the air in various areas around Reykjavík. |
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Birkilaut, July 28, 2007. Visited the annual summer gathering of the flying club Þytur close to the volcano Hekla. Among other things they had a spot landing contest, and of course the campsite was buzzed numerous times. Great fun. The page text is in Icelandic. |
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Akureyri, July 16, 2007. Visited the cradle of flight in Northern Iceland and was given the opportunity to photograph seven interesting flying treasures, most for the first time. Follow the link to the page or click on the photo, The page text is in Icelandic. |
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Hella July 14, 2007. Visited the small grass field in the south of Iceland for some close up action with the Iceland Flying Club fly in. The last nine photos on the page depict the mark landing contest, with the winner flying TF-KRA shown in the last two photos. The second last shows him with the main wheels on the line, but not yet in the grass. Perfect 10. His name is Guðmundur Guðjónsson. The page text is in Icelandic. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 30 at 0941 AM. North American P-51D Mustang named Miss Welma taking off for her first takeoff from Reykjavík this morning. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 30 at 0941 AM. North American P-51D Mustang named Miss Welma taking off for her first takeoff from Reykjavík this morning. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 30 at 1143 AM. North American P-51D Mustang named Miss Welma taking off for her second and last takeoff from Reykjavík this morning. The PC12 escort had a warning light problem after 15 minutes of flying and both decided to turn back and fix it. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 30 at 1143 AM. North American P-51D Mustang named Miss Welma taking off for her second and last takeoff from Reykjavík this morning. The PC12 escort had a warning light problem after 15 minutes of flying and both decided to turn back and fix it. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 30 at 1021 AM. The Pilatus PC-12 accompanying North American P-51D Mustang Miss Welma landing. The PC12 escort had a warning light problem after 15 minutes of flying and both decided to turn back and fix it. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 29, 2007 at 02:52 AM. The North American P-51D Mustang named Miss Welma recently rebuilt by Fighter Rebuilders at Chino California, and accompanying P-38F Glacier Girl across the Atlantic to Duxford, England, had to leave the P-38 behind in Goose Bay with a failed engine. The P-51s pilot, Ed Shipley carried on and made it to Reykjavík last night. |
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Reykjavík Airport June 29, 2007 at 02:52 AM. The North American P-51D Mustang named Miss Welma recently rebuilt by Fighter Rebuilders at Chino California, and accompanying P-38F Glacier Girl across the Atlantic to Duxford, England, had to leave the P-38 behind in Goose Bay with a failed engine. The P-51s pilot, Ed Shipley carried on and made it to Reykjavík last night. |
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Mount Esja, June 11, 2007. Piper Cubs TF-CUP and TF-KAS flying close to the slopes of Mount Esja. This was a trial photo mission with the photo ship being Kitfox 163 piloted by Ragnar Eldon (see photo). Flying TF-CUP from the back seat was Erlendur Einarsson and TF-KAS was Sigurjón Valsson from the front seat with Hafsteinn Jónasson as passenger. |
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Mount Esja, June 11, 2007. Piper Cubs TF-CUP and TF-KAS flying close to the slopes of Mount Esja. The air was rather rough and it was really hard to both hold the camera in the slipstream with the Kitfox window open, and also to see the focus. I had to trust the camera, and of course with all this motion and the background, it miscalculated the focus a number of times, |
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Mount Esja, June 11, 2007. Piper Cub TF-CUP flying close to the slopes of Mount Esja. This plane was rebuilt from the crashed TF-GEV by Einar Páll Einarsson who specialises in rebuilding Piper Cubs. It was displayed at the EAA show in Oshkosh Wisconsin 2002 and won the coveted Judges Choice award. |
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Mount Esja, June 11, 2007. Piper Cub TF-KAS Icelandic CAA number 52 flying close to the slopes of Mount Esja. This plane was also rebuilt by Einar Páll Einarsson who specialises in rebuilding Piper Cubs. |
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Reykjavík Airport, June 11, 2007. Grumman Tigercat G-RUMT stopped over at Reykjavík during the weekend, and took off for Greenland and the US this morning at 10:45. It was delayed because of low ceilings in Narsarsuaq. Note the condensation circles from the propeller tips. |
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Reykjavík Airport, June 11, 2007. Grumman Tigercat G-RUMT stopped over at Reykjavík during the weekend, and took off for Greenland and the US this morning at 10:45. It was delayed because of low ceilings in Narsarsuaq. Note the condensation circles from the propeller tips. |
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Reykjavík Airport, June 11, 2007. Grumman Tigercat G-RUMT stopped over at Reykjavík during the weekend, and took off for Greenland and the US this morning at 10:45. It was delayed because of low ceilings in Narsarsuaq. |
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Mount Vifilfell, June 8, 2007. Super Puma TF-GNA excercising mountain rescue in the slopes near Mount Vifilfell. TF-GNA is the latest addition to the IGC helicopter fleet. Note the rotor tip condensation in the humid air of the evening. |
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Mount Vifilfell, June 8, 2007. Super Puma TF-GNA excercising mountain rescue in the slopes near Mount Vifilfell. TF-GNA is the latest addition to the IGC helicopter fleet. Arrived in Iceland on Saturday June 2, 2007. Note the rotor tip condensation in the humid air of the evening. |
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Mount Vifilfell, June 7, 2007. Super Puma TF-GNA excercising fast approaches in the slopes near Mount Vifilfell. TF-GNA is the latest addition to the IGC helicopter fleet. Note the rotor tip condensation in the humid air of the evening. |
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Mount Vifilfell, June 7, 2007. Super Puma TF-GNA passing by the top of Mount Vifilfell. In the background you see the steam from the latest thermal power plants near Mount Hengill. TF-GNA is the latest addition to the IGC helicopter fleet. |
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Keflavik Airport, April 17, 2007. Boeing 737-800NG the first of three operated by JetEx for Primera Air, arrived at Reykjavik late on the 16th. It was flown to Keflavik on the 17th and made two low approaches for runway 29 and 11. |
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Keflavik Airport, April 17, 2007. Boeing 737-800NG the first of three operated by JetEx for Primera Air, arrived at Reykjavik late on the 16th. It was flown to Keflavik on the 17th and made two low approaches for runway 29 and 11. |
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Keflavik Airport, April 17, 2007. Boeing 737-800NG the first of three operated by JetEx for Primera Air, arrived at Reykjavik late on the 16th. It was flown to Keflavik on the 17th and made two low approaches for runway 29 and 11. |
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Keflavik Airport, April 17, 2007. Boeing 737-800NG the first of three operated by JetEx for Primera Air lands on runway 29. |
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Hella, July 22, 2006. A selection from the small airport at Hella. A gathering of private pilots and aircraft. |
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Reykjavík, October 12, 2006. The USS Wasp arrived in Reykjavík harbour today on a courtesy visit. One of the USN CH-53Es, from squadron HM-14, Vanguard, landed at the Coast Guards apron 2 to pick up media people and dignitaries for a visit to the ship at sea. Here it is landing on runway 10 in front of the Coast Guard Hangar 2. |
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Reykjavík, October 12, 2006. Here it is taxying out to runway 01 in front of the Coast Guard Hangar 2. |
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Reykjavík, October 12, 2006. Here it is taking off from runway 01 in front of the Coast Guard Hangar 2. |
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Reykjavík, October 12, 2006. Here it is taking off from runway 01 in front of the Coast Guard Hangar 2 with TF-SIF in the foregound. |
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Keflavík, September 16, 2006. Two Hawker Hunter Mk. 58s landed here on the evening of the 15th. They belong to a company called Northern Lights Combat Air Support, owned by André Lortie in Montreal, Canada. They operate 12 of these on training contract with various forces of the world. These two, C-GZIB and C-GZIC were on the way to France with next destination being Exeter, England. Here B is taxying out from Kilopad 10, where they spent the night. |
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Keflavík, September 16, 2006. Two Hawker Hunter Mk. 58s landed here on the evening of the 15th. Not often these days you see Hunters take off, particularly in formation like here. |
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Keflavík, September 16, 2006.
Two Hawker Hunter Mk. 58s landed here on the evening of the 15th. Gear is almost up |
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Keflavík, September 16, 2006. Two Hawker Hunter Mk. 58s landed here on the evening of the 15th. On the way to England. |
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Keflavík, September 16, 2006. Being ferried to new owners in the US, this old soldier is taking off from runway 20. Note the condensation from the prop tips this early in the morning. This is almost certainly ex OO-DHL, from the L on the nose. |
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Keflavík, September 16, 2006. Being ferried to new owners in the US, this old soldier is taking off from runway 20. Note the condensation from the prop tips this early in the morning. This is almost certainly ex OO-DHL, from the L on the nose. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. This is part of a formation of three Piper Cubs going all out in a low pass. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. This is part of a formation of three Piper Cubs going all out in a low pass. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. TF-FIO taking off on runway 19, rotating and lifting off very early this showing the power of this versatile flying machine. She os off well before the crossing of taxyway ECHO as can be seen by the signs, and this well before passing Hotel Loftleidir. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. Capt. Tómas Dagur Helgason made two low passes over the show, here going clean at a full clip. The sun did not help us with any light this day. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. Capt. Tómas Dagur Helgason made two low passes over the show, here going clean at a full clip and waving good by to the crowd. The sun did not help us with any light this day. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. Þyrluþjónustan made a spirited display of the capabilities of their Bell 206 Helicopter. |
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Reykjavík, August 26, 2006. Þyrluþjónustan made a spirited display of the capabilities of their Bell 206 Helicopter. |
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