i want to fly.
always wanted to.
but will I?

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Today, I went to the RSAF Open House with Cheuk Wing and Wen Xiang! Its pretty much the same as 2 years ago at the last Open House, nothing much new.

Met with Cheuk Wing at 7:45am at CP and then 8am at Hougang Bus Interchange with WenXiang, we got on the 1st shuttle bus to the Air Base! Unfortunately, when we got there, we had to wait for the gates to open, and then we had to wait for the official opening. Just shortly after 9am, the Open House was uhh...opened, the first thing we went to was the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules Flight Simulator. With me as the Captian, Cheuk Wing as my copilot, we were almost able to land the airplane, if not for the time limit being exceed...

Anyway, we went to check out the Singapore Youth Flying Club Booth before heading outside for the Static Aircraft Displays.

The Piper PA-28 Warrior II of the Singapore Youth Flying Club



The exhausts of the 2 turbojets of the Northrop F-5 Tiger II


The "rear view window" (It's actually the window for the Refuelling Boom Operator) of a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker

More of the KC-135R


The Lockheed Martin KC-130B Hercules(1st picture) and the Fokker 50(2nd picture) from on board the Boeing KC-135R



Close up of a Fokker 50


And one of the Lockheed Martin KC-130B


One of the highlights and new displays of this year's Open House, the Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon of the Republic of Singapore Air Force's Aerial Display Team, The Black Knights!



(The air intake)


The Grumman E-2C HawkEye



Lockheed Martin F-16D Block 52 CFT+ Fighting Falcon and a Northrop F-5 Tiger II



Before we went to the Flight Simulator Centre, Cheuk Wing did something very funny...XD


When we came back to the Open House from the Flight Simulator Centre, the skies were much darker than when we left...and soon, it started to rain very heavily




My feet were soaked fully wet!


After a while, when the area was totally flooded at least 5cm deep, some personel from the KC-130B brought umbrellas over and brought us into the KC-130B, without having to queue up! =D
Wen Xiang's funny face!

Thats better...




Stealth C-130!


While we were leaving for gome, a rainbow appeared after all the rain!

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