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My name is Vincent van der Meer. I was born on 30 April 1979 in Rotterdam-south, near the football stadium from Feyenoord "The pride off Rotterdam" the Netherlands and now I live in Schiedam. I started spotting in 1993 when we went to the Military Aviation Museum at Soesterberg AB in the Netherlands while walking around in the museum we saw F-15's from the 32 FS make touch & go's all the time and soon we went to go see if we could find a place to take a closer look after some time we found "the Hill" for fun we wrote down the serial numbers to see how long the F-15's would stay away. Those been the 1st movements I made. About 3 weeks later we ended up at my 1st airshow at Eindhoven AB that was also the first European show with an F-117A (static and flying). Before that time I already been at several Dutch navaldays in Den Helder and also a few Army days in Holland since 1988. But the most fun was the harbour in Rotterdam where i've seen my 1st aircraft-carrier the HMS Ark Royal in 1988.

Mig 23UB 12500338/15 Eindhoven airshow

Alpha jet 40+32 Eindhoven airshow

As you probably already noticed on my webadress my favorite aircraft is the Saab Viggen so I was very happy when in 1999 at the Belgium airshow Beauvechain I had the chance to take place in the cockpit of a Viggen after some talk with the pilot.

My dad also rolled into this hobby strange aint it? But just like every spotters you always start too late. For me its missing the F-111's in Europe.
While he Serviced the army for his number he was stationed at Amersfoort right at the end of Soesterberg AB. That was in 1972 so missed the F-4E's.

me and my dad at the RIAT 2005

 

Camera :Nikon D300+Grip and Nikon D300S+Grip
Objectives:
Nikon 18-70mm
Nikon 28-80mm
Sigma 70-300mm
Sigma 50-500mm
Cosina 100-400mm
Speedlight SB600

digital Cam CanonA60

 

Pictures posted in:
Scramble:
310 Pag.68
311 pag.86
331 pag.37+38

Panoravia:

December 2004 pag.43

Augustus 2005 pag.25

 

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