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The Airpower is one of the most important airshows in Europe, organized every 2 years (or 3 like this edition, due to financial problems) on Zeltweg Austrian Air Force base. Red Bull is the main event sponsor, and it brought almost the whole Flying Bulls fleet to the show.<\/p>\n

3 PC-6 draw the Austrian flag in the sky with coloured water.
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Red Bull DC-6
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Fokker D.VII replica
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4 Austrian SAAB 105 trainers
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Belgian Air Force F-16 solo
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Patrulla Aguila
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Czech Air Force SAAB Gripen in Tiger Meet livery
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Special formation with many types which served in the Austrian Air Force:
\nFouga Magister
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de Havilland Vampire
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SAAB Tunnan
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F-5 Tiger
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SAAB Draken
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A SAAB 105 and a Typhoon completed the formation
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The Draken then performed its own solo display
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Peter Besenyei display
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PC-7 Team
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The only airworthy Bristol Sycamore in the world, recently restored by Red Bull
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North American T-28 Trojan, recently restored by Red Bull
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Belgian Air Force A109
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Red Bull’s Blanix Team
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Austrian SAAB 105 in Tiger Meet livery
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Red Bull’s Bo105
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Red Bull’s AH-1 Cobra
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Red Bull’s Bell 47
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Ecureuil for aerial footages
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Austrian Pilatus PC-7 in special livery to commemorate the 30th anniversary of PC-7s in Austrian Air Force service
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The tactical demo simulated the retrieval of civilian personnel from a conflict zone.
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…followed by a flight of Black Hawks
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Bell 206s simulated an attack on a “technical” which tried to attack the civilians.
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Then the 212s came back to retrieve the civilians, while the airbase speakers played Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries”
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A flight of Alouette IIIs retrieved the remaining soldiers
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2 Typhoons scrambled to simulate a C-130 interception
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Then the 2 Typhoons simulated a dogfight
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Red Bull formation, with B-25 Mitchell, P-38 Lightning, F4U Corsair and 2 Alpha Jets
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Patruouille de France
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Hawker Sea Fury
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Polish Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum
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French Air Force Rafale
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Italian Air Force C-27J Spartan
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Messerschmitt Me.262 Schwalbe replica
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Frecce Tricolori
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SAAB Viggen
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Czech Air Force Mi-24 Hind with special livery to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the formation of RAF’s No 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron. This livery belonged to a Squadron’s Liberator.
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The only photo I took of the static display, NATO’s E-3 Sentry
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