Updated 30th June 2020 DIN POBEDA is Russian for Victory Day and normally is held on May 9th each year, when there is a massive celebration, in all major Russian Cities, of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. The reason we in the West celebrate VE Day on May 8th and Russia is […]
Posted on behalf and with the kind permission of Gavin Maxwell. This is when I first see them approach over Sokol. The large white building is the Aerostar Hotel and the old buildings at the forefront are the old MiG factory which contains a few preserved aircraft that no one has even seen. The bases […]
Thanks to a tip-off from Stewart Toone, the following bad news has just been received……. Next year’s AVALON airshow is being postponed from 23 February to a later date, likely to be in November. The ADMA foundation, which organizes the biennial event, blamed the lengthy logistical lead times and uncertainty about international travel caused by […]
Updated 16th June 2020 POBEDA is Russian For Victory and on May 9th each year there is a massive celebration of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. The reason we celebrate VE Day on May 8th and Russia is May 9th is due to the time difference between Moscow and the UK. It […]
Hi all, This was our last day in the USA and we still had more Boeing MAX to see! By now it was clear that this might be the last trip away for the foreseeable future and what a trip it was! I was converted to using PlaneBase a few years back and all the […]
Hi all, Penultimate day of our USA MAX bash and we are back in Phoenix. Now this routing might seem strange as we were here a few days earlier, but of course the original plan was to see us spending today at Luke AFB for the airshow. As we knew this had been cancelled just […]
Hi all, Our last day in Seattle saw us revisit all the Boeing sites again. I had been tempted to go to NAS Whidbey Island but I would have wanted to spend a good part of the day there and there were still some other things to do in the general Seattle area. Also as […]
Hi all, After a long day on the road yesterday doing Moses Lake as a day trip, it was now time to turn our attention to aviation around Seattle. I already knew that sitting all day at the airport might get a bit boring after a while as it is very Alaska Airlines heavy and […]
Afternoon all, On a typically sunny and bright day the below logged 0700 – 1230 before heading back to LAX for the flight back to London. Unusually quiet on the roads with all public spaces being closed from 1800est today N25MX Da900 N41SC G4 N43MS C525 N61AP Be200 N91FX BD700 LXJ N94HL C525* N108KN LJ45 […]
Hi all, Of the overall Boeing MAX hunt, this was the most eagerly awaited day where we would get to see over 200 of them parked up at Moses Lake. I suspect many of us would never have heard of this place before the Boeing facility started being used to relieve the Seattle Boeing fields……how […]