Take-off Swiss McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet.
Registration: J-5007.
A McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet of the Swiss Air Force takes off from Leeuwarden airbase.
The Swiss Air Force is the air force component of the Swiss Armed Forces. Founded in 1914 as part of the army, the air force became an independent army component in 1996.
This photo was taken on 5 April 2019 during exercise Frisian Flag.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…