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September 11th 1998 - my first F-16 backseat ride (ET-199, LET).
May 28th 1999 - another backseat ride (ET-022, MON).
Overhead the North Sea enroute to a range in England (ET-022. MON).
Danish F-16 inverted.
E-180 "Holger Danske".
Closeup of E-180's tail.
The leader of the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) "JØS" is giving me a present to mark not only my last operational conversion ride, but also the last F16 "Classic" operational conversion ride in the OCU. |
The instructors also made a poster showing my life - with funny remarks (and almost naked women - off course). |
STI (me) in front of the F-16 (E-183) with the presents. |
Starting up for an Offensive Counter Air (OCA) mission. |
Taking-off from RWY 29R (the main) at Skrydstrup AB. |
The most northern point of Denmark; Skagen. This is after the attack. |
Rejoining north of the town of Haderslev. |
Close formation from IP to break. Lead aircraft E-599 is flown by "MON". |
Lead in the "break". |
Downwind 29R at Skrydstrup AB. |
Final approach 29R at Skrydstrup AB. |
Back in the squadron area. |
A day on the range. This time in the backseat of "AMI". |
Rolling in at app. 3,000 feet in order to deliver a low-drag bomb - now the bomb circle is not that easy to acquire. |
After the bomb is released the pilot performs a level turning safe escape maneuver in order to avoid frags from the bombs. The turn is at least a 5G turn and the picture was NOT easy to shoot. Notice the air is being compressed over the wing! |
RDAF flies the largest Fighter Formation in the world consisting of 16 aircraft. This picture is taken as two elements of 4 aircraft has joined and the third is joining. |
When the formation is joined there are aircraft all over the place. There is NO room for break outs and therefore maneuvering is very limited in the close formation. |
16 F16 Fighter aircraft airborne with an extra F16 chasing the formation
in order to shoot pictures. In addition there are 2 airborne spare-aircraft
and 2 spares on the ground. In total that accounts for one third of the
entire fleet on a Sunday afternoon. |
On July 4th 2002 I flew my final ride in the F16 Classic. The sortie was flown as a 2-ship offensive counter air sortie on the wing of the 727th Squadron Commander Major "JØS". Sadly the mission was cut short due to very bad weather enroute |
After having shut-down the Classic one final time it was time for a beer! |
The Crewchief, Jens Peter and I in front of E-091. This aircraft would soon after be taken out of service to go thru the extensive MLU-update and I would be "hitting" new books. |
BAS first solo in the F16. He is flying the 730 Squadron 40th years anniversary specially painted F16 on the wing of SOL and I. |
These pictures are from a 2v2 against Canadian F18 Hornets. |
Merging with one of the F18s. I was in the backseat of "MON" and pulling app. 7 Gs when the pictures was taken. |
F18 joining in order to be let back home to Skrydstrup. |
In formation ready to go IMC on the wing. |
VFR below the clouds. |