Centenary of first airplane flight in Chile

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Shocman
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Centenary of first airplane flight in Chile

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Hi everyone!!!
Long time without posting anything, but I came back.
Yesterday we celebrated the centenary of the first flight of a plane in Chile. In 21th August 1910, Copetta brothers purchased in France one aeroplane Voisin. Then in Chile, they started the assembly process, when they finished performed the first flight in a farm called “Valparaíso”, which today is a square just a couple of blocks from my house.

In the celebration participated some old and classic airplanes from many differents Clubs and owners, and the National Airspace Museum made a static show with some old Chilean Air Force Aircraft and some civilian and one now in service in the Air Force.

Well these are some images of that great day.

AT-6 Texan from National Aerospace Museum
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Enaer T-35 Pillán, I flew in that plane in 1998!!!
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Then at midday started the flypast
The first flight, Halcones in Extra 300L
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Then the second flight, seven PA-38 Tomahawk II from Club Aéreo de Santiago
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The third flight, "Classics 1" (Aeronca 7 Champion and Piper Cub)
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The fourth flight "Classics 2" (The right wing Piper J3C)
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The fifth flight 3 Piper Super Cub and 3 Gliders
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The last flight was three PT-17 Stearman
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During the night the static planes have very interesting lights and take some shots
Enaer T-35 Pillán
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Extra 300 from Halcones
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Let-23 Super Blanik from Chilean Air Force, I flew in that plane in 1997!!!
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Well I hope you enjoy my images, it was a very great day.

Greetings from Chile!!!

Shocman :cool:
Aviation from the most southern country in the world
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Re: Centenary of first airplane flight in Chile

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Great stuff Antonio, you Chileans love your big flypasts!!!

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Re: Centenary of first airplane flight in Chile

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Hi, thanks for your comments.
In effect TonyO, in Chile we love the flypast, because we have very few times at year to see airplanes in formation, specially civilian ones.
Sadly the place where the planes overflew was not very clear with many trees and big buildings, for that reason I taken my shots with the sun in front of me.

I'm so glad DanO1978, with share here my humble images, and show some airplanes from that part of the world.

Happy Greetings from Chile!!!

Shocman :cool:
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