Amsterdam Spotter News

MALEV - Hungarian Airlines ceases operations with immediate effect

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:00:00 GMT

One of the oldest continously operating airlines of the world has ceased all operations with immediate effect:

MALEV - Hungarian Airlines, almost a century old has ceased operations tonight due to financial problems. It has been put under bankruptcy protection in the end of last week and has now ceased all operations due to the lack of financial ressources.

Currently it is not known, if MALEV will restart or say good-bye to the airline world for ever.

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Amsterdam Spotter, 4th of November 2011

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The last Friday afternoon was my first office free afternoon within my parental leave and I was able to make some reconnosation for my spotting guides (which I hope to implement very soon) and of course some interesting pictures. After the demise of Amsterdam Airlines last week, Strategic Airlines is taking over their charter assignments instead, bringing a new database entry for me:

LX-STA, Strategic Airlines

Transavia is leasing out some of their planes to Aero Mexico this winter, PH-HZO is one of them, here being prepared for the transfer flight to Mexico in Schiphol-Oost:

PH-HZO, Transavia in Aero Mexico c/s

Then on the Polderbaan we additionally have seen PH-BFW coming back from it's long Trip:

PH-BFW, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Also Delta had a late arrival on this Friday afternoon, N176DZ:

N176DZ, Delta Airlines

KLM coming back home like an Eagle, I really like the look of a Triple Seven short before Touchdown:

PH-BVC, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

And also a new database entry for me, British Airways with Embraer:

G-LCYM, British Airways

I hope you liked this week's pictures a bit.

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Amsterdam Spotter, 23rd of October 2011

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

On this sunny October (late) afternoon, I was able to spare some time with my family at the lovely, but relatively "fresh" Polderbaan "Spottersplek".

So we took the smallest Amsterdam Spotter with 4 feet, the Junior Spotter and the Manager Spotter (my wife is our family manager) to the Polderbaan an just walked some hundred meters on the adjacent bikepath, powering out the Dogspotter with a lot of running and playing and the junior spotter with almost the same activities, giving me the space to take some nice pictures.

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New picture accepted at Aviationcorner.net

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

I have made another try and had success with another picture at Aviationcorner, votes are as always welcome:

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Good bye Martinair

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Today is a sad day for most of the Martinair employees. Effective today, Martin Air Holland ceases passenger operations with their Boeing 767-300ER planes.

Today there is a "Goodbye Flight" scheduled with the PH-MCL Retrojet of Martinair which will fly for about one hour above the Netherland to say "Farewell" to all possible Martinair passengers in the Netherlands.

As spotters, we will miss the Martinair 767's, but will look forward on how Martinair will develop further in regards to Cargo Traffic which shall be the new role in the AirFrance - KLM group for Martinair.

Goodbye PH-MCL and sister planes, the Amsterdam Spotter will miss all of you:

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First picture ever accepted

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Today is a milestone in my spotter's career: I have my first picture accepted on Aviationcorner.net:

I appreciate votes on the image :)

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Luchtmachtdagen 2011 - Leeuwarden AirBase

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Hello to all,

now upcoming the veyry first content post for the relaunched Amsterdam-Spotter.

It has been a while and I know, for some of our visitors it is not something new I present in the following, but I think it is still worth of posting these pictures again.

The 2011 Air Force Days will be the last AirForce Days until 2013, where the Dutch AirForce will then celebrate their 100th anniversary in Volkel.

But now to the present, the Air Force Days 2011 were again a fabulous event which was organized pretty well and had some highlights to present.

The very first highlight already has been experienced, when I was not even close to the Airbase with the parking spot on the Motorway between Harlingen and Leeuwarden as they have simply closed down a whole motorway to accomodate all the parking cars of us visitors. The airforce offered a free Bus shuttle to the AirBase from where ver you have parked on the long Motorway strip which provided a smooth way of parking and getting without stress to the Airbase itself.

The first Display I have experienced was the solo display of the Begium AirForce F-16, again a fabulous show has been delivered:

Some minutes later, the Dutch AirForce started it's Apache Solo Display Team, again, incredible what they can do with these Apache's:

A Fly-By together with the Hawker Hurricane and the Solo Display F-16 of the Dutch AirForce:

Note the many different speed capabilities of the single Planes / Helicopters, while the Apache is almost flying it's top speed, the F-16 is close to a stall and the only one flying "comfortably" is the Hawker.

Flare action by AH-64:

And a very close one of the Solo F-16, RNLAF:

Finnish Air Force, F-18 "Hornet", Solo Display

And finally landed:

Royal Navy Lynx Display Team, they were making a really cool show and the whole demonstration looked more like ballet dancing than flying military helicopters:

Italian Air Force, Eurofighter "Typhoon" Solo Display, incredible how maneuverable this plane is with these canards, a real dogfighter:

Flying Bull, MBB Bo-105, also here incredible to see what a good pilot can do with a helicopter:

An my personal favourite of that Day, loud, ugly and smokey, Polish Air Force MiG-29 "Flogger", the last dinosaur of the cold war, now fighting for the former enemy coalition (NATO):

Turkish Air Force, F-16 Solo Display, last year they still had a formation team with F-5 "Tiger", the premiere on Dutch grounds for this display:

And finally, at the very end of the flying show day in Leeuwarden, the fabulous and famous "Patrouille de France", as dream of myself has been fulfilled by seeing this team flying:

These formations they flew were awesome, i am still impressed by the accuracy they have flown their programme:

And the greetings to all Frisian's could not have been left out:

Goodbye "Patrouille de France" hopefully we see us again in 2013:

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Gallery and first spotting guide back online

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

After our Server crash, we have brought the first parts of the Sotting Gallery and the first spotting guide back online.

More will follow in the next days .

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Relaunch of the Amsterdam Spotter

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Leider haben wir am Wochenende ein vollständigen Servercrash erfahren müssen, inklusive unserer Backup Festplatten und Dateien, so dass wir nun wieder komplett bei Null beginnen müssen.

In den folgenden Tagen werden wir wieder mehr und mehr Inhalte hier uploaden und die Vogt Familie Website neu durchstarten.

In der Zwischenzeit, folgt uns Doch bei , oder bei

Unfortunately, we experienced a full server breakdown this weekend, including the damage of our backup drives and files, so we need to start from scratch with this website.

In the upcoming days, we will more and more bring back the old contents and relaunch the Vogt Familie Website.

In the meantime, please follow us on , or

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