I'll tell you a little about a trip that I did today (october, 12/2006). I have some photos too . Hope you like it! WARNING: If you can't stand some english gramatical errors DO NOT READ THIS!

This week is the week that we celebrate the aviation day. So all the Air Force bases are open gates.

The Air Force base is located in a city called Canoas on the Rio Grande do Sul state. Canoas is 110km far from my city, Lajeado. In this Air Force base are one of the most advanced fighter from our Air Force. They did an entire upgrade on the F-5E/F Tiger II. Now he is called F-5EM (monoplace) and F-5FM (biplace).

F-5EM in his new camo paint


But we need to start from the begining. The next one in the line is a plane called P-95C Bandeirulha. His responsability is maritime patroal. The big nose is the home of a big maritime radar. He was made here in Brazil. A national product. Embraer is the 3rd biggest airplane factory in the world. Embraer lost just for Boeing and Airbus.

P-95C Bandeirulha side view


P-95C Bandeirulha radar view. In the background you can see a R/C plane


Next in the line is the UH-1H Huey. That we call here, Sapão (Big Frog). The Huey are in use in south Brazil, where I live. In the Amazon they're being replaced by the Blackhawk HH-60.

UH-1H Sapão


This babie down here is a Navy hello. Don't know much about him, I'm more Air Force fanboy.

Navy hello

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