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Joop de Groot's Photo Gallery

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D-5805 @ EHVK - landing at Volkel
D-5805 @ EHVK		 D-8318 @ EHLW - target tow
D-8318 @ EHLW		 D-8312 @ EHYB - Last opportunity to see the Dutch Starfighters in the open. After Ypenburg was closed the airframes were scattered all over the Netherlands.
D-8312 @ EHYB
D-5801 @ EHVK - By early train and rental bike to Volkel was quite a common way tot visit air bases in the eighties. Now I get my car...
D-5801 @ EHVK		 D-5805 @ EHVK - This kind of pictures always remember me to the characteristic sound of the good old Starfighter.
D-5805 @ EHVK		 D-8311 @ EHVK - Volkel resident
D-8311 @ EHVK
D-8300 @ EHSB - on static during the 1981 open house.
D-8300 @ EHSB		 D-8293 @ EHVK - return after a recce mission.
D-8293 @ EHVK		 D-8052 @ EHVK - The classic Dutch recce configuration: one Orpheus reconnaissance pod and four fuel tanks.
D-8052 @ EHVK
D-6654 @ EHLW - In the aftermath of the Starfighter era the F-104 was used for target tow duties. Hence the removed canon from this once proud interceptor.
D-6654 @ EHLW		 D-8279 @ EHVK - After the crash of Starfighters D-8279 and D-8341 the remains of both aircraft were rebuilt to one airframe. This was used to train tracktor drivers in the handeling of the F-104.
D-8279 @ EHVK		 D-8273 @ EHVK - Dutch recce Starfighter with the distinct Orpheus recce pod.
D-8273 @ EHVK