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04-30-2004, 08:25 PM
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A few not extremely horrible pictures from Iceland!!
 The best F27 in the world, the icelandic coast guard TF-SYN, which has single handedly discovered scores of various modern submarines, without the use of sonar...  A P-3 Orion over the westest part of Europe, which incidently is also on the west part of Iceland.(north west part actually, but still most westest part though)  An Aerospatiale Dauphin about to crash...  No I was lying, it didn't crash. Thats only because the pilots onboard are the best Aerospatiale Daupin pilots in the world, which is no lie.  A P-3 Orion, it landed safely afterwards I'm told...  American HH-60G in front of the Reykjavik-city-Hospital (Borgarspítalinn) with some injured individual.  An HH-60G displaying the fact it can bank a little. Which is very useful in hilly terrain, or any terrain for that matter...  A naz... I mean german MiG-29 taking off from Keflavik airbase, heading for the United States, as they often do.  One of the four F-15s that are "supposed" to be stationed here in Iceland, although I haven't seen one in a while.. so I can't be sure if they are actually still here.  A B-52. It had to use the runways to taxi around, it is far too heavy for the taxiways.  One of those Norweigian F-16s landing in Keflavik.  A Duch F-16 doing evasive manuevres above Keflavik airport, these are supposed to help defend Iceland in case the Faroese invade us..  One of the two Ukrainian Su-27s that visited Iceland sometime ago, this one is a UB(Su-27UB that is). The fuel lines here didn't fit the Sukhois so we had to do some scratchbuilding to make them fit...  A C-17 that practically crashed when it delivered an american celebrety to the Vestmanneyjar (Westman Islands). That celebrety is actually food, called Keiko, I mean a killer whale called Keiko, who was supposed to live out the rest of his life in Iceland, chasing Killer whale chicks and something, but he chose to go to Norway, and got killed of course. (you know what a killer whale is don't you?) Actually back in the 60s and 70s the Icelandic government ordered the Orions based here to bomb some Killer whale packs with depth charges. Lots of dead killer whales and blood on the ocean were the result of that.  Ye thats the bloddy whale I'm talking about, evil thingy... |
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04-30-2004, 08:27 PM
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 You have a thing for making weird captions
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04-30-2004, 08:28 PM
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Good pics by the way
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04-30-2004, 08:29 PM
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 funny guy (apart from that nazi Mig  )...nice pics
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04-30-2004, 08:31 PM
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Re: A few not extremely horrible pictures from Iceland!!
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 I don't know about the various roles of this aircraft for our defence forces, but at least it's used to drop the paratroops on training and it will be used in real situation as well, probably. 
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04-30-2004, 08:48 PM
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The eagles are still at Kef, they are a rotational force. You'll see eagles with a stylized hawk on the tails next month.
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04-30-2004, 09:00 PM
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So the Lakenheath ones will go (if they haven't already), where are these stylized hawk ones from? -- Just looked in another topic and found out. So if you are coming to Iceland I'll have to give the typical Icelandic greeting to foreigners who visit us. " How do you like Iceland so far... and uhh Welcome to Iceland." in this order and usually omitting the last part. |
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04-30-2004, 09:22 PM
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Re: A few not extremely horrible pictures from Iceland!!
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This is the one our Airforce is flying. It's the F60, let's say a newer version of the F27, and especially for military use.... The F50, which is almost similar to the F60 is the version for civilian use.     Btw, the F60 is used for transport (personel and cargo) and to drop para's. I jumped three times out of the U-02 (the one with the flares) |
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04-30-2004, 09:28 PM
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It may be cold in your country, but your sense of humor is alive and kicking!
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04-30-2004, 09:37 PM
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Great pictures as always Bloddyaxe, and the best captions by far
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04-30-2004, 10:49 PM
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Nice pics mate, nice to see a bit of humour on the boards as well.
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04-30-2004, 11:06 PM
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Re: A few not extremely horrible pictures from Iceland!!
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04-30-2004, 11:40 PM
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Re: A few not extremely horrible pictures from Iceland!!
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of what I found on the net Finnair´s Fokkers were obviously bought from Iceland as well. Given the huge (not) amount of these aircrafts in the Finnish Air Force I assume that Finnair would in case of war have to give away some of its planes to the Air Force, Finnair obviously doesn´t operate F-27´s anymore, but there are probably some other smaller daughter companies to Finnair that does have those, or atleast similar (sime size, layout etc). Such as the ATR 72  ATR 72, that Finnair operates, as well as Kar Air and so forth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72 |
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05-01-2004, 02:55 AM
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3 F-27M Maritime is operated by Spanish Air Force from Gando Air Base in Gran Canaria (Canary Island) in SAR roles.
More info (& pictures) in Spanish Air Force website. And, yes... quite funny captions...
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05-01-2004, 04:08 AM
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Yepp great pics,
by the way, whats the population in Iceland...?
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