::: The annual Open House of the Royal Netherlands Air Force has a great reputation among aviation enthusiasts for its wide variety of interesting aircraft attending the show. This year they lived up to their reputation with rare participants in both static and flying show. This included the only appearance of the Blue Angels out site North American. The 2006 event was held on June 16 & 17 at Netherlands most northern located airbase Leeuwarden. With the very bad weather during the preceding days and marginal weather on the Friday, we were lucky to have great weather on the Saturday.

::: Start of the static were two Turkish NF-5's (former RNLAF types), a Czech Grippen, a Polish MiG-29 and a German Typhoon. Also there were several support aircraft positioned on or near the static show area.

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