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Juli 2006: The 'Verkehrslandeplatz Schwarze Heide' held it's annual
airshow. EDLD (Dinslaken/Schwarze Heide) is just a short hop from EDLV (Niederrhein). It also is a lot smaller, but for general aviation pilots much more
interesting.
Today
al lot of general aviation was to be seen as well as some aerobatics
aircraft like the Extra 300 aircraft. At Dinslaken the famous Extra
factories are located on the south side of the field. Today these
factories were off-limits to the general public.
The
airshow was well organised and had a mix of displays and roundflights,
some interesting aerobatics could be seen against a deep bleu sky. The
airshow was divided over saturday and sunday. This report is from sunday
afternoon only..
We
arrived at Dinslaken around noon and were stuck in a traffic jam so we
missed the "Utterly Butterly'' wingwalkers, we managed to get on
the field after their show was over. We payed the 7 euros entrance fee,
and could enjoy some aircraft on static while an Bel 206 helo was
constantly busy for their round flight. Als the Antonov An-2 was doing
roundflights today. One of the coolest aircraft was, in our opinion the
Russian built Yakovlev Yak-3. He gave a nice display today.
Also
nice to see was the demo of a Fieseler Storch, when I first saw the
Fieseler
Storch, it struck me as being a ungainly and strange looking aircraft,
especially on the ground. Then I discovered its amazing flight
characteristics. It has full length fixed wing slats, Fowler-type flaps
that increase the wing area by 18 % and ailerons that droop with the
flaps when they are extended past 20 degrees. Those long, spindly legs
gives the plane the ability to land in arkward places, as they are able
to absorb the chock of a hard landing and the wide stance makes for
stable landings in rough conditions. This storch made a very short
landing at EDLD today using only for about 10 meters of runway.
Also
an Extra 300 gave also a nice demo with some amazing stalls and short
turns. Other aircraft to be seen were amongst others, the ''Crici'' (smallest
twin-engined aircraft in the world) some harvards, Hughes 500 helicopter,
boeing Stearman biplane and the usauls based ultra light and cessna's.
Off
course we DID miss the jet noise and the smoke trails and kerosine
smells, but hey, you can't have it all. All in all we did see some nice
airplanes this sunday...
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(c 2006)
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By: Ron Kellenaers & Rene Wilthof