My enthusiasm in aviation goes back to the late fifties. The RLS Harvard and Beech D-18S circling over our house in Groningen in the Netherlands attracted me to visit the airport. Two landing RAF Beverly's gave the push to get really fascinated by aeroplanes. With my first camera, an Agfa Click, I started in 1964 as a photographer when I made a photo of a Flying Enterprise' Canadair C-4 Argonaut at Groningen Airport Eelde.

Interested in as well military as civil aviation, I collect slides of all planes that are driven by an engine. This contains the whole range from ultralight aeroplanes, fighters and airliners up to the big ones like the AN-124 or even the AN-225. Next to the fixed wing aircraft the slides collection contains helicopters. My speciality, however, is the DHC-6, of which the collection has grown to about 950 colour slides.

Many airports, airfields, heliports and Air Force Bases were visited over the years. A highlight during the trips made in the past was on May 27, 1994. On this day the Soviet Air Force officially withdrew from their duty in the former DDR. The ceremony was held at Sperenberg Air Base. However we came for the transport aircraft and helicopters, I'll never forget the dramatic of this day.

On 04/06/1999, I was photographed by one of the crewmembers of the US Navy team Blue Angels in front of their McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet 181955 # 6 at Kalispell - Glacier International Airport in Montana, USA.

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