Brabants Bont; Volkel, September 25, 2012

F-16 at the Parallel Runway; Text and Photograph's by Alex van Noye

On Tuesday, September 25, I had a visit at Volkel Air Base. The F-16s were due to maintenance of the main runway temporarily flying from the parallel runway. This is an ideal situation for spectacular action shots of the departing F-16s. There were only 4 aircraft planned for flight this afternoon. Also we were positioned at an unfortunate location along the runway; the F-16's were already pretty high when they passed us. Luckily I managed to capture a few nice photos of the departing F-16s. The aircraft stayed away for over 1.5 hours. A number of F-16s made a few touch and go’s before they landed. After the landing of the last F-16 the visit was over.