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Haneda to Tokushima

Hi Philbert! Welcome aboard!

Museum of Aeronautical SciencesThe museum is right at the end of the runway of Narita International Airport.

Old YS-11 prop plane.

Inside the YS-11

Museum's observation deck.

Air Nippon YS-11 propeller plane. Donated by All Nippon Airways in 1997.

YS-11 propeller plane. Open to the public on certain days of the year.

Front of YS-11 propeller plane.

Propeller

In front of Tokorozawa Aviation Museum is a Curtiss-Wright C-46 transport plane.

The C-46 was used by the Japan Air Self-Defense Forces for cargo transport from the 1950s.

Monument for Japan's Birth of Aviation 日本の航空発祥の地・所沢

Inside the Tokorozawa Aviation Museum. You are greeted by a replica of Kai-1, Japan's first military plane developed, produced, and flown at Tokorozawa on April 5, 1911. It flew 10 meters high and 800 meters long for 80 sec. 会式一号機

Other more modern planes and helicopters are on display in the main exhibition hall. This is a North American T6G.

Sikorsky H-19

Japan Air Self-Defense Force helicopter.

Inside helicopter

Helicopter cockpit with glass bottom.

Above is a Piper L-21, below is Fuji T-1B.

Remains of a Nieuport 81E2.

Replica of Nieuport 81E2. This was first imported to Japan in 1918 and used to train Japanese pilots by a French mission.

Model of Japan's first motorized flight.

Turbine engines

Flight simulator (Not as good as Microsoft Flight Simulator.)

Very impressive and educational aviation museum. Great for kids too.

Boeing 747 flight simulator (Not as good as Microsoft Flight Simulator.)

Exhibits on Tokorozawa's aviation history.

Pilots who flew at Tokorozawa.

Pilot's goggles and cap.

Bust of General J.P. Faure, a Frenchman who trained Japanese pilots in 1919.

Bust of General J.P. Faure

Statue of Japanese aircraft mechanics who worked at Tokorozawa. This is where the aircraft maintenance hangar was.

ANA (All Nippon Airways) offers free tours of their maintenance facilities at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. You can see planes in a huge hangar being serviced.You have to make reservations at their website, but everything is in Japanese. They have four 90-min. tours almost daily, but only in Japanese. (Pamphlet has some English.) You should reserve weeks or months in advance because tours get booked up quickly. However, when people cancel their reservations, tours may open up. You have to keep checking. Children must be at least elementary school age. http://www.ana.co.jp/group/kengaku/outline.html

From Haneda Airport's International terminal, you can see ANA's maintenance hangars at the end of Runway A which is one of the airport's original runways.

After passing the JAL maintenance hangar, you will see this overpass connecting the ANA buildings.

On the left is the ANA Component Maintenance Building where you check-in for the tour. Show the security guard your reservations (printout of the email confirmation) to enter the building.

When you enter the building, you will be in the reception lobby.

Reception lobby of the ANA Maintenance Facility's ANA Component Maintenance Building. There's a gift shop, model planes, and other exhibits. At lunch time, they sold bento so we had lunch here after the tour.

Gift shop sells ANA goods.

Pose

ANA Gundam in the lobby.

ANA cockpit in the lobby.

ANA model planes in the lobby.

Panel about the 747. ANA retired its last Boeing 747 in March 2014. ANA first flew 747s in 1979. Will be missed.

In this lecture hall, ANA's tour started with a 30-min. talk and video about flight, their planes, Haneda Airport, etc.Part of ANA's talk was about how planes fly. They demonstrated how wind can lift the wings of a toy plane.

ANA's lecture hall has some exhibits like model planes.

ANA's whale plane.

ANA's Peanuts (Charlie Brown) plane.

Tire, cockpit window, lights.

Free souvenir of the tour. Cell phone strap with an ANA maintenance man.

After the slide show lecture, we wore a hard hat and walked on the overpass to the plane hangars. There were around 80 people in the tour and they divided us into around 15 people per group for the hangar tour. Each group had a guide explaining things in Japanese.

ANA's airplane maintenance hangar at Haneda Airport. Photography was permitted, but no videos. You can post photos online, but you need their approval. These photos here have been approved by ANA. They don't allow ANA personnel and the other tour participants to be pictured. Also cannot show any non-ANA plane.

ANA's Boeing 787

ANA's Boeing 787 inside the maintenance hangar at Haneda Airport.

Engine removed from the plane.

Passenger seats were taken out and the cushions replaced.

Where the tail fits.

Tires

Tires are not that huge. Tires are inflated with nitrogen, not air (one thing that they always mention).

They have to replace the tires quite often, every 2 months or so.

Extra hangar space.

Jet engine undergoing maintenance.

The hangar can get very noisy when they are testing an engine.

ANA plane

Always impressive to see a jet plane up close. We see it only on the outside, cannot go inside the plane.

ANA plane parked outside the maintenance hangar.

Extra dock in the maintenance hangar.

Jet engine cowlings.

How workers get around. Enjoyed the tour.

On approach to New Chitose Airport on an Air Do Boeing 767.

Landing on New Chitose Airport's runway 19L from a northerly approach.

Hello Hokkaido, it's been a long time since I've been here.

Arrival at the New Chitose Airport terminal.

The baggage crew worked very quickly. That's my bag rolling off the plane while I was still sitting in my seat waiting to get off.

New Chitose Airport, Hokkaido's main gateway, is the first place you see G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Welcome signs as we get off the plane.

Air Do Boeing 767 at New Chitose Airport.

New Chitose Airport, another Welcome sign as we head for the baggage claim area.

Inside New Chitose Airport's Central Plaza, G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit countdown.

Ze plane...

On the boarding bridge to the plane. Notice the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Welcome signs.

In my seat. Calbee is a sponsor, selling potatoes and potato chips.

Rainy night for take-off.

Bye-bye Hokkaido...

Hanno is in the direct flight path to Yokota Air Base in neighboring Mizuho and Fussa.

Iruma Air Base is near Inariyama Koen Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line (40-50 min. from Ikebukuro). This is the crowd leaving the train platform at around 9 am.

A record-breaking 280,000 attended the Iruma Air Show on Nov. 3, 2010. The festivities started at 9 am and admission was free. This was also a super sunny day.

They inspected our bags and even had a German Shepherd dog.

It would take maybe only 5 min. reach Iruma Base from the train station, but it took us at least 25 min. with numerous stop-and-go crowd control.

Trying to cross the train tracks. Another bottleneck as trains always pass by.

Finally getting nearer to Iruma Air Base, the Japan Air Self-Defense Forces' largest air base.

The first thing I saw was this YS-11 flying around. They had a parade and Miss Air Show contest, but I was too late for that.

This was the 42nd Iruma Air Show on Nov. 3, 2010.

YS-11 landed.

This is a U-125 plane which was also flying and had landed when we got to the air base.

Even at around 9:30 am, a huge crowd.

At the front line in front of the Blue Impulse Aerobatic planes.

Blue Impulse jets parked front and center.

Blue Impulse jet

More photos of the Blue Impulse later on below.

Next were three Kawasaki C-1 transport jets taking off.

C-1 flying over Blue Impulse.

Another Kawasaki C-1 military transport jet taking off. It has the Japan Air Self-Defense Force livery.

Kawasaki C-1 has been around since the 1970s.

The three Kawasaki C-1 in formation during a fly-by.

The Kawasaki C-1 return to release parachute troopers.

Kawasaki C-1 for a parachute drop at Iruma Air Show in Saitama.

The three Kawasaki C-1 jets dropped parachuters onto Iruma Air Base.

I've never seen so many parachutists in an air show before.

C-1

A squadron of T-4 trainer jets perform semi-aerobatics.

T-4 trainer jets

They didn't release any smoke.

T-4 trainer jet lands.

UH-60J rescue helicopter demo.

CH-47J Chinook helicopter demonstrates cargo transport. They had something flying in the air almost non-stop all morning until around lunch time.

The crowd. Behind is a large hangar where they had aircraft displays.

The crowd waits for the Blue Impulse.

As 1:15 pm approaches, the crowd gets bigger and more eager to watch the Blue Impulse, seen here in the background.

I waded up to near the front row at around 12:30 pm to await the Blue Impulse to take off. Blue Impulse is Japan's foremost aerobatic team belonging to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

The Blue Impulse flies Kawasaki T-4 jets since 1995. They were established in 1960, inspired by the Thunderbirds of the US Air Force.

This ground crew of a Blue Impulse T-4 includes a woman.

Pilot putting on his helmet. This year in 2010 happens to be the 50th anniversary of the Blue Impulse team established in 1960.

Seven Blue Impulse planes were on display, but only six of them flew. Blue Impulse is based at Matsushima Air Base in Miyagi Prefecture. They have a busy performance schedule from April to Dec. ブルーインパルスの曲技飛行

Ready to leave for the runway.

As the jets taxied off, the pilots waved to the crowd.

Blue Impulse Kawasaki T-4

The jet blast from the T-4 wasn't so bad, but it did blow away a few caps on our heads.

Blue Impulse head for the runway at Iruma Air Base.

And now here they come in all their glory, the Blue Impulse Aerobatic Team.

All these formations and aerobatic maneuvers all have a name. This is the Diamond Formation.

Two more Blue Impulse jets later took off.

Spectacular formations.

Blue Impulse Aerobatic Team at Iruma Air Show.

Flying upside down.

The smoke color was either white or gray.

Thrilling show, but the element of danger is always present. The Blue Impulse have had a few fatal accidents.

Also see my YouTube video here.

Star Cross: Smokey star in the sky. They also drew a Valentine heart, complete with an arrow. Also see my YouTube video here.

Blue Impulse official Web site here.

This Tack Cross has one jet flying straight while the other is spiraling around it. Quite spectacular.

The crowd cheers wildly as the Blue Impulse returns. They performed until around 2:30 pm. The festival ended at 3 pm when many of the planes on display took off for home.

Iruma Air Show Blue Impulse video 2010.

Sikorsky SH-60J Seahawk anti-submarine warfare helicopter

Sikorsky SH-60J Seahawk

UH-60J rescue helicopter is based on the Black Hawk copter.

This U-125A plane is for search and rescue operations. A good number and variety of planes were also on display. Some of them were flown during the air show.