Monday, January 22, 2007

The Albatross and the Vampires

Two of the crowd favourites [of what I suspect were many favourites :-)] were the two De Havilland DH 115 Vampires and the L39 Albatross. Both of these types looked great in the air, both during their individual performances and also flying as a single formation.

The L39 flew with various Eastern Bloc forces and the Vampires flew with a number of Western forces, including New Zealand. In New Zealand, the Vampires preceeded the A4 Skyhawks.

De Havilland DH 115 Vampire
L39 AlbatrossDe Havilland DH 115 VampireDe Havilland DH 115 VampireL39 Albatross and De Havilland DH 115 Vampire formation

2 comments:

Hawk_180k said...

The two formation shots are VERY nice! Bet that brings back memories of the Grummans eh?

Rodney said...

Gidday mate! Yeah it brings back memories alright!

I'm going to have to come up again sometime this year - strangely, I still miss AR somewhat...