Photos on Asian Aerospace 2000

Asian Aerospace in Changi, Singapore (26 Feb 2000)

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Apache (Bell Labs)
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Upside down in the air. Just imagine how strong the blade must be to be able to withstand the immense pressure to keep the craft upside down, since it is built to fly the craft upright. The famous attack helicopter which caused so much havoc to Saddam's tanks in Ops Desert Storm, up close and personal.
The Rafale
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Model

In the air, demonstrating its capability as an air to air combatant.

The flight display unit
Famous Fighter Jets
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F-5 (actual) F-5 (model) Mirage 2000 Popular fighters produced by Lockhead Martin. Can you recognise them? Amongst are the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-18 Hornet and F-22 JSF
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Eurofighter- Typhoon, a collective effort by 4 countries, the first and now only 5th generation fighter jet. Notice its similarity to the Rafale

My favourite F-16 Fighting Falcon! Yeah!
Other Aircraft
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Lear- Falcon 50EX Lear- Falcon 900EX E-2C AWAC Other business jets The famous B-1 Lancer. Whoa!
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Tiltprop
Pratt & Whitney Engines
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Check out how the turbine engine works! The PW300, a very widely used engine turbine.

PW4098

The 3 acrobatic teams who took to the air at AA2000 are (chronologically):

Black Knights of the RSAF
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F-16 F-5 04 x  F-5 & 02 x  F-16 in diamond formation Both F-16 in near miss F-16 mirror
Roulettes of RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force)
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Roulettes up close and personal 'Diamond' formation Flip in the air while in the 'diamond' formation Saying goodbye
La Patrouille de France
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Entering 'Arrow' formation 'T' formation Happy Valentines. Romantics from the French

See you at Aerospace 2002. Ciao!

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