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Marco has made a video of the trip

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Last week we made a flying trip to Verdun, to visit the world war I battlefields and the Douaumont Ossuary. Coincidentally, this trip coincided with Ukraine's counteroffensive, and the blowing up of a dam in the Dnieper River.

picture: Douaumont Ossuary

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Last week we flew to Tábor in the Czech Republic for the last three days of the 2022 World Junior Gliding Championships. The trip was fun and it was great to be there. In the Club class, the United Kingdom was declared the winner. In the Standard Class, Germany won and also triumphed in the country teams. A participant from Australia was involved in a mid-air collision during the tournament, but luckily all remained unharmed.

Tábor airfield

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Although we had been to Midden-Zeeland many times before, we had not yet taken the bike from the airport to visit Middelburg. It is certainly worthwhile to do so.

Abbey in Middelburg

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Our son was back for a few days to return the glider he had been using in Switzerland. On Saturday, we took a flight in a motor plane around Thuringia.

Soaring over the Alps

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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The weather did disappoint halfway through the route, but we were still able to make it a nice sightseeing flight over central Germany.

Hamelin

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The flight school at Locarno Airport reopened in June after it had been closed since March due to the Corona virus. We took a weekend trip to Locarno to visit our son / brother.

Crossing the Alps

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Monday was King's Day in the Netherlands. It is a national holiday. In other years there are many festivities, but this year was different. Because of the beautiful weather we went on a scenic flight over Friesland.

Watergate in Sneek

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Thank you for the response. All my trips are with a SEP and VFR only. For me that is just fine.

On Saturday I visited the Stadskanaal aerodrome for the first time. In the past it was an airfield only for ULV/MLE aircraft, but now also aircraft up to 890kg (1962 lbs) are approved. It was time to fly a Cessna 150 once again.

Stadskanaal

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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After intense working from home for days due to the coronavirus, it was time for a little break at about lunch time. We made a trip around the Schiphol CTR to Zandvoort, Haarlem, Alkmaar and Amsterdam. We returned home recharged.

St.Bavo church Haarlem

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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The Grote Waard was a farming region between South-Holland and Brabant, that disappeared in the Sint-Elisabeth's flood of 1421. For decades the church steeples of the drowned villages were still visible above the water.

Biesbosch

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Over the Rhine/Meuse Betuwe region, with lots to see.

Bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem

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South Holland; over the typical Dutch meadows, Leiden, glasshouses, storm surge barriers, Delft, Gouda and Rotterdam.

Meadows, excavated peatlands

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It was good weather on Tuesday. We took a Cessna for some sightseeing near Amsterdam.

Zaanse Schans

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Nothing special, but still a nice trip to an airfield that we had not visited before.

Hoevenen

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Just a few pictures of our holiday to Portugal and Zaragoza.

Zaragoza

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Just a little trip to Borken-Hoxfeld in Germany, but still some nice things to see on the way.

Huis Bergh

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Hi Rene, that is a lot of history covered in such a short flight.  The forts are interesting.  From the fact there is not much structure left I'm guessing that they were mostly wooden.

 

Peter

 

Hi Peter. It's a lot of history packed in a small country that happens to be in the strategic river delta of the Rhine and Meuse.

The Defense line of Amsterday forts are concrete structures with an earth layer on the side facing where the enemy would come from. They are still there, although most of them not open to the public.

See this page about Fort Spijkerboor that we visited recently

A little trip in Holland, with visits to Texel, Fort bij Spijkerboor, Alkmaar and Naarden-Vesting

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Sight-seeing flight over 't Gooi and the Utrecht Hill Ridge in the Netherlands.

Specially interesting is the Naarden Fortification, the Fortresses of the New Dutch Waterline and the pyramid built in 1804 by Napoleon's soldiers.

Muiderslot

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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To Drenthe and Groningen for some history and a sensor network.

Bourtange

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Thanks for the responses. I did not know the story about the Junkers W33 "Atlantis". Interesting. Thanks for the tip ?

Atlantis refuelling in Koepang

The original plan for a trip to the French Alps did not materialize. The weather was just not good enough for the trip. But we made good with some nice flights, and also I did the two-yearly training flight. The weather would not be good in the weekend. On Friday we returned the plane to its base. But not before we made a visit to Bremen.

The Junkers w33 in Bremen

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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Team sailplane flying is still enroute by car to the French Alps, and have stopped at Dijon, Darois aerodrome. They visited the nice city of Dijon. I just made a little sightseeing flight on Tuesday.

St.John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch

A trip report with pictures can be found here

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