The fine lines of the Connie are quite evident in this photo.

After the shower.

Two veteran submarine hunters of the Dutch navy in the Aviodrome museum park. The Tracker was last used by the KLM technical school.

Dragonfly WG752 is representing Jezebel, a Sikorsky-built S-51 which was the first helicopter in the Netherlands. It was put to good use during the 1953 flood disaster.

Added to the Aviodrome collection, this F100 was parked at the EHLE main apron today because of an event at the museum. Fortunately she got her engines back later on.

Nicely preserved at the Aviodrome in her original demonstrator colours, the second prototype Fokker Friendship had a long career with LTU, IFG and WDL as D-BAKI before acquisition for preservation in 1995. Actually the third F27 built, as the second was a static test airframe; parts of prototype F27 PH-NIV's fuselage are stored behind one of the hangars at Lelystad

A light helicopter of Dutch design, the Kolibrie was powered by rotor tip-mounted Kromhout ramjets. About ten H-3s were built for agricultural use. This is the prototype H-3, first flown in May 1956. Its H-2 predecessor, PH-NFT, is suspended from the ceiling.

Seen taxiing to the Aviodrome museum after its last landing.

Dutchman Frits Koolhoven designed this fighter for the British BAT company in 1918. F1654 was used for racing after the war, wearing these colours and provisional civil registration K-123. Beautifully restored, it was moved to the grand Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 2012, even though it's hardly a Dutch aircraft.

One of the first jet trainers, the S.14 was a big machine compared to e.g. the Fouga Magister. This is the prototype, which was re-engined with a Rolls-Royce Nene, putting the Machtrainer firmly in the advanced trainer class. The 20 production aircraft had the original Derwent engine.