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100 years Turkish Air Force

Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:35 pm

In 2011 the Turkish Air Force celebrate his 100 years anniversary. For that they organised a four day Air Show and Spotters Event at Izmir / Cigli air base. I was there and made some video. The first clip now online show many different airplane types of the Turkish Air Force inventory:

McDonnell Douglas F-4E
McDonnell Douglas RF-4E
Lockheed F-16C
Lockheed F-16D
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
Northrop NF-5A
Northrop NF-5B
Northrop T-38
KAI KT-1T
Cessna T-41D
Cessna T-37
SIAI Marchetti SF-260
CASA CN-235
C-160 Transall
Boeing 737 AEW&C Peace Eagle
Boeing KC-135
Eurocopter Cougar MK-1
Bell UH-1H

See that via the following link:
http://www.clipwings.com/index.php?comm ... eo_id=1167

Another clip show the following planes of different aerobatic teams forming together for a photo mission over Izmir:
F-16 „Solo Turk“ followed by NF-5A und NF-5B of the Turkish Stars, C-101 Aviojet of the Patrulla Aguila, MB-339 of the Frecce Tricolori, TS-11 Iskra by the Iskry Team and Alpha Jet of the Patrouille de France. One Alpha Jet and the NF-5B was used as Photo Ship. See the following link:

http://www.clipwings.com/index.php?comm ... eo_id=1174

Some pictures out of the video footage:

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