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| 0 Map to show the situation where the action in the next pictures takes place. North is on the right. (Map copied from MS-Flight Simulator 2004.) |
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| 1 Five Apaches are parked outside on the 301 sqn platform. Two of them are starting up. |
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| 2 One of the Apaches with the engines started. |
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| 3 Chinook D-102 is also on the platform and has its engines started. |
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| 4 D-102 turns and taxies across the ramp to intersection K, following the two Apaches for a combined mission. |
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| 5 The first Apache awaits clearance to enter the runway. |
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| 6 While the first Apache enters the runway, the pilot of the second one suddenly shuts down his engines.. |
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| 7 The Chinook lifts off from the taxiway and passes behind the second Apache onto the grass. |
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| 8 The crew of the second Apache opens the cockpit on the starboard side. Apparently they have had a fire warning and did send out a fire alarm. |
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| 9 The first Apache vacates the runway to intersection L. In the meantime the Chinook makes a 180% left turn to park alongside the runway in the grass. |
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| 10 This picture is to confirm that the serial of the first one is Q-24. Note the yellow centaur of 301 sqn. |
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| 11 Q-24 enters intersection L. |
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| 12 Q-24 keeps hovering over intersection L. |
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| 13 A crash tender arrives in front of the second, unidentified, Apache. |
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| 14 When the crash tender passes the Apache and turns behind it, both crew members have already left the helicopter. |
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| 15 While a fireman inspects the situation and another one rolls out a fire-hose, the crew members stay clear from the Apache. |
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| 16 From the far end of the runway fire-van 852 and a second crash tender arrive in a hurry, passing the Chinook. |
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| 17 The drivers don't turn off at intersection K, but proceed to intersection L. The Apache crew has disappeared behind the first crash tender. |
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| 18 At intersection L both vehicles have to stop because Q-24 is hovering there in front of them. Apparently they make radio contact with the pilot. |
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| 19 Q-24 leaves the intersection onto the grass on its left side to free the way for the vehicles. |
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| 20 The crash tender pulls up, leaving a big cloud of smoke. |
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| 21 After both vehicles have passed Q-24, they drive across the platform in front of the hangars and along the taxiway to the unlucky Apache. |
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| 22 The pilot of Q-24 steers back to intersection L and lands on the asphalt. |
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| 23 The crew of Q-24 waits pending a decision on further action. |
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| 24 The firemen are still deliberating on the situation. |
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| 25 It looks as if a decision has been taken to carry-on with the mission without the second Apache, since the pilots of both Q-24 and D-102 open the throttles. |
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| 26 Q-24 lifts off and turns 180%. |
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| 27 Q-24 hovers back to the runway. |
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| 28 This picture was meant to confirm the serial of Q-24 from the port side, but the numbers are hidden behind one of the rotor blades. |
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| 29 While Q-24 proceeds to the runway, a fire-truck with a trailer arrives at the scene. |
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| 30 When Q-24 nears the runway the Chinook also takes off. |
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31 After Q-24 has turned into a southeasterly direction (to Oirschot?), she is followed by
D-102. |
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| 32 An ambulance arrives on the scene along the taxiway (on the right). |
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| 33 The engines of one of the three remaining Apaches on the platform are started up, apparently as a replacement for the one that broke down. |
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| 34 The pilot taxies the third Apache free from the other two. |
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| 35 The third, also unidentified, Apache takes off directly from the platform. In the background the second crash tender returns to its position at the far end of the runway. |
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| 36 The third Apache leaves the airfield in the same direction as the first one and the Chinook. |
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| I would be very pleased when someone could tell me the identity of the second and third Apache. |
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