Starting take-off roll on Rwy 07.

Fuelstop during the delivery flight from Warton to Qatar.

Fuelstop during the delivery flight from Warton to Qatar.

Carrying additional 'Official Olympic Carrier' titles, promoting the Olympic Summer Games 1980 in Moscow.

This is one of the first ever built 737s. Only a few of the series -100 have been built by Boeing, it was especially designed for launch customer Lufthansa in the late 1960s.

The aim of the famous and unique Hatzerim museum is to collect aircraft that have both operated for and against Israel. The desert climate helps to preserve some very rare aircrafts, although the hot Israeli sun may have an impact on the colour schemes.

A busy afternoon at Sky Harbour on this unusually warm day.

Ex USAAF 43-11719 owned by the Confederate Air Force (later Commemorative Air Force). This aircraft must have ranked as the most rare warbird flying at the time, because she was one of only two of her type ever produced. Two P-63Fs (out of a total production of 3,303 P-63s of all variants) were ever manufactured, making N6763 one of the most improbable warbirds to survive the war, let alone remain in flying condition. Sadly she was destroyed in a horrible and tragic midair collision with B-17 N7227C at Dallas Executive airport on November 12th, 2022, exactly 6 years after I took this picture.

Ex USAAF 43-11719 owned by the Confederate Air Force (later Commemorative Air Force). This aircraft must have ranked as the most rare warbird flying at the time, because she was one of only two of her type ever produced. Two P-63Fs (out of a total production of 3,303 P-63s of all variants) were ever manufactured, making N6763 one of the most improbable warbirds to survive the war, let alone remain in flying condition. Sadly she was destroyed in a midair collision with B-17 N7227C on November 12th, 2022.

Special scheme celebrating 65 years of WTD 61, the German Test Flight Center.

The rarely seen Hawkeye of VX-20 (Naval Air Warfare Center) used for test and evaluation work.