Aerospace
News from the aviation world and industry
Fokker 100 for Aviodrome Theme Park Museum 23 June 2010
One of the many airline companies operating the successful Fokker 100 is KLM. Although Fokker went already bankrupt in 1996 their aircraft continued to fly, without doubt also for many years in the future. However, because of increasing maintenance costs KLM has decided to terminate its use of this very versatile plane. They will be [...]
McRobertson race
To celebrate the fact that 75 years ago the famous McRobertson race from London to Australia was held, the Aviodrome Theme Park Museum had organized in the weekend of 4-5 July (2009) a Fly-in of aircraft from that period. Aviodrome tried to get as many aircraft types as possible to this event that had participated [...]
Caudron C.460 Rafale replica presented at Le Bourget
In 1936 a French racing plane, the Caudron C-460 Rafale won both the Greve and the Thompson Trophy race in the United States flown by the famous French pilot Michel Detroyet. To commemorate this Tom Wathen and Mark Lindsey from AeroCraftsman constructed a beautiful flying replica of this famous racer. The replica is powered by [...]
Aviodrome Theme Park Museum Gets Gloster Meteor!
On 17 February 2009 a Gloster Meteor F.8 was donated to the Aviodrome Theme Park Museum. at Lelystad Airport. It was donated by mr. Aart van Wijk, a former Meteor pilot. The Meteor F.8 served at the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) until it was phased out in 1958 when it was succeeded by the Hawker Hunter. [...]
P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft Homebasing Announced
The Department of the Navy announced on January 2nd 2009 its decision to provide facilities and functions to base five fleet squadrons of the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) with a fleet replacement squadron at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, four fleet squadrons at NAS Whidbey Island, Wash., and three fleet squadrons at Marine Corps [...]
Exhibition- Gerben Sonderman 1908-1955
Exhibition Gerben Sonderman 1908-1955- a born pilot, resistance man and friend of the Prince On Saturday 13 December 2008, Wouter Sonderman, the son of the famous Dutch test pilot Gerben Sonderman, opened an exhibition to commemorate his father. Wouter Sonderman during his opening speech in a nearby church Gerben Sonderman was tragically killed in 1955 [...]
Belgrade Air show 2008
The Belgrade air show took place above Kalemegdan fortress on October 19th 2008. Organizers dedicated this show to Istvan Kanas, a pilot who crashed recently on Batajnica Airfield during practice for Belgrade air show. Curiosity of this air show is that aircraft were taking off and landing from 5 different airports: Serbia Air Show 2008 [...]
High-Energy Laser Fires for First Time
The high-energy laser installed earlier this year on the Missile Defense Agency’s Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft fired successfully Sept. 7 in a ground test at Edwards Air Force Base, USA. Northrop Grumman Corporation built the megawatt-class laser, the most powerful directed energy weapon ever developed for airborne use. Airbore laser firing test Called “first light,” [...]
G-4 crash on Batajnica
Today 24th September 2008 a Serbian Air force G-4 Super Galeb (Super Seagull) crashed on Batajnica airfield near Belgrade. Plane crashed just two minutes after take-off during low level acrobatic exercise for air-show to be held on 27th September. There are still no information about cause of the accident, and the investigation has started. During [...]
