Combat planes over Brussels for 75th anniversary of Battle of Britain

[jan_olieslagers]

Today Monday 21 sept., 16:15 locql: two combat jets flying over Brussels centre, not too low, not too fast, east to west.

What brought them here? A late departure from Sanicole / Kleine Brogel, perhaps?

[Homo Aeroportus]

You're fast Jan !


My attention was attracted by the noise (music) but I had only a split second viewing so not sure but they looked like F-16s.
Heading about 300° above central Brussels indeed.
Low, say 1000-2000 ft but not fast. A bit like the 21st July parade.
??

H.A.

[Homo Aeroportus]

Got it !

Rehearsal for the 75th commemoration of the Battle of Britain that will take place in Brussels this Wednesday 23rd.

See : http://www.mil.be/fr/communiques-presse ... angleterre

and http://www.mil.be/nl/persberichten/75st ... le-britain

Aircraft of the Air Component will participate.
Any closure of airspace around Brussels then?

H.A.

[jan_olieslagers]

I checked the NOTAMs, nothing found as yet. Closest I came was both EBBE and EBFS announcing extended operational hours, which might be related. But NOTAMs tend to come late and that is not necessarily a bad thing, it adds to their reliability, "kort op de bal spelen" as the Dutch say.

PS to me they didn't look like F16's either, but I had only a brief glimpse, and I am not an authority on combat planes anyway.

[Hue]

Good job H.A.

Civil traffic at Brussels Zaventem will very briefly be halted for military fighters fly by Wednesday. Heads up near Atomium and Jubelpark/Parc du Cinquantenaire.

[b-west]

I saw them going over the Grote Markt. They did look like F-16 to me. What a delicious sound they made Stopped all conversations for a while.

[sergioboeing]

Good job H.A.

Civil traffic at Brussels Zaventem will very briefly be halted for military fighters fly by Wednesday. Heads up near Atomium and Jubelpark/Parc du Cinquantenaire.

Do you know when exactly? I work near the Cinquantenaire so it could be a good opportunity to catch these birds

[EBBU]

Offenberg square near the Atomium has a BoB memorial...
It's rumoured that the overflight there will be a couple of F16's and a spitfire.
In the evening the belgian branch of the RAF association is hosting a 'night at the museum' diner at the air museum. Overflight there is rumoured to be 4 F16's and the 4 Red Devil Marchetti's.

Mind, this info has not been confirmed.

[Homo Aeroportus]

Offenberg square near the Atomium has a BoB memorial...
It's rumoured that the overflight there will be a couple of F16's and a spitfire.
In the evening the belgian branch of the RAF association is hosting a 'night at the museum' diner at the air museum. Overflight there is rumoured to be 4 F16's and the 4 Red Devil Marchetti's.

Mind, this info has not been confirmed.

Thanks EBBU.

There will be indeed a ceremony at the Heyzel as from 16:30lt and the flypast would be F-16s, no Spit mentioned on this web site though
http://www.belgianaviationnews.be/2015/ ... saire.html

In the evening the "Night at the Museum" starts at 19:00lt and a flypast is also mentioned so I guess about 19:00 and 19:30.
http://www.rafabelgianbranch.com/

Look up and open your ears for the music of a Merlin

H.A.

[Hue]

Do you know when exactly? I work near the Cinquantenaire so it could be a good opportunity to catch these birds

The Cinquantenaire will only be in the evening. After 1930 LT.
4 F16 & 4 Marchetti's probably, very low altitude.