AirPower09 - provisional programme
Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June
9am to 10am
Opening with three Saab 105OE from the Austrian Armed Forces and an Alpha Jet owned by the Flying Bulls
Helicopter flag parade: Augusta Bell 212, Bell AH-1 Cobra (Flying Bulls), Alouette III, Agusta Bell 206A Jet Ranger and Bell OH-58 Kiowa
Display by NATO AWACS Boeing E-3A Sentry (Saturday only)
Display by experimental aircraft: Bede BD-5, Gyroflug SC01 Speed Canard and Rutan Long EZ
Austrian Armed Forces: trainer aircraft display with Saab 91D Safir, Diamond DA40, Pilatus PC-7 Turbo Trainer and others
10am to 11am
Display: Agusta A109, Saab 105OE (Armed Forces), Aermacchi MB 339CD (Italian Air Force), F-16 Fighting Falcon (Dutch Air Force)
Breitling Jet Team display team (France)
11am to 12.30pm
Helicopter display: Bell 47G-3B-1 Soloy (Flying Bulls), Agusta Bell 206A Jet Ranger and Alouette III (Armed Forces)
Austrian Armed Forces: Agusta Bell 206A Jet Ranger fly-out
Helicopter display with BO-105 (Flying Bulls)
Formation display:
Flying Bulls Aerobatics Team (Czech Republic)
Blanix (mirror flight team with 2 LET L-13 Blanik sailplanes)
Krila Oluje "Wings of Storm" (Croatia)
Solo display: Saab JAS 39 Gripen (Hungarian Air Force)
12.30pm to 1.30pm
Evacuation and air landing demonstration by the Austrian Armed Forces: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk, Agusta Bell 212, Bell OH-58 Kiowa
Demonstration: differences between military and civilian parachute jump (aircraft: Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter)
Air survaillance demonstration by the Austrian Armed Forces: An unidentified aircraft penetrates Austrian airspace and is located by the Austrian Air Surveillance system GOLDHAUBE. Then two Eurofighter are scrambled, intercept the target and conduct a forced landing (aircraft: Bell OH-58 Kiowa, Eurofighter Typhoon, Lockheed C-130 Hercules)
Flight display by four Austrian Armed Forces Eurofighters
1.30pm to 2.45pm
Formation displays: North American AT-6 (Walter and Toni Eichhorn), Piper PA 18 Super Cub (50 years of the Kondor amateur pilot group)
Solo displays: Bell AH-1 Cobra, Pilatus PC-21, F-16 Fighting Falcon (Belgian Air Force; Friday only)
Turkish Stars display team (Turkey)
2.45pm to 3.30pm
The history of air racing
A race between aircraft from the great eras of the fastest motorsport in the world. Blériot XI (1908), Boeing PT-17 Stearman (1934), Douglas DC-2 (1934) and Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair (1940)
Red Bull Air Race demo with four aircraft
Solo display by Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch
Firefighting demonstration by the Austrian Armed Forces: Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter, Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk, Bell 412 (Slovenian Air Force), Agusta Bell 212, Alouette III
3.30pm to 5pm
Warbirds
Fokker Dr. I (1917)
Messerschmitt Bf-109 (1935)
Beechcraft Model 18 Twin Beech (1937)
Lockheed P-38L Lightning (1939)
Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair (1940)
North American B-25J Mitchell (1940)
Jakowlew Jak-3U (1941)
Solo displays: Sikorsky CH-53 G (German Army), Beechcraft King Air (RAF), Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, Dornier Do-24ATT, Douglas DC-6B (Flying Bulls), Alenia C27J Spartan (Italian Air Force)
5pm to 6.30pm
Team Orlik display team (Poland)
Grand finale: Saab 105OE, Soko G-2 Galeb, Eurofighter (Italian Air Force), Hawker Hunter
Patrouille Suisse display team (Switzerland)
100 years of air racing
AirPower09 pays tribute to air racing past and present. In a unique display, four aircraft from the great eras of air racing will take part in a race.
- Blériot XI (1908)
- Boeing PT-17 Stearman (1934)
- Douglas DC-2 (1935)
- Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair (1945)
The winner will be the aircraft which flies over the approximately two kilometre runway of Fliegerhorst Zeltweg in the quickest time. A dramatic race against the clock - right in front of the spectators.
The public will be directly involved in the race by way of a competition. The prize for the winner will be a ride in a Boeing PT-17 Stearman biplane owned by the Flying Bulls!
In the second part of the tribute, four Red Bull Air Race pilots will put on a demo, negotiating a course of four gates or, all in all, 11 pylons (the gates on the race course which mark out the slalom). They will demonstrate just how spectacular motorsport can be. After the race, the reigning world champion of the Red Bull Air Race, Styrian Hannes Arch, will put on an impressive solo aerobatic display.
Support programme
Fun for all the family - the support programme for AirPower09 in Zeltweg has lift-off! What's on offer:
"Bungee crane" Second only to flying!
2 flight simulators
Sony PlayStation truck
kidsMANIA childcare
24 entertainments managers are on hand to keep your kids amused. Friday and Saturday from 9am to 6pm.
AirPower09 offers kids a whole lot of fun with activities and creative games and a number of games and adventure zones.
There is a trampoline, a painting workshop for face-painting or taking part in the aircraft painting competition, a bouncy castle, bungee jumping, a go kart track, a 10-metre blow-up climbing tower, a children's theatre and a Lego tent with some great new party games.
The friendship bracelet for just five euro gives you access to all attractions, as often as you want, all day long.
Airline industry show
Experience the future! A special exhibition by the Austrian airline industry gives visitors an insight into the technology of the present and future. Free admission!
Forces' postal service
Send your mail from AirPower09 and have it stamped with a special postmark. Or purchase the eleven souvenir postcards of AirPower09.
You are entering the AirPower09 area, which is a military premise.
For safety reasons, we kindly ask you to accept/obey to the following regulations:
- Follow the instructions of the military guards
- Accept access and luggage checks, refusals of access and confiscation of dangerous goods
- Do not use bicycles
- Keep dogs leached and muzzled at all times
- Accept to be photographed and filmed and to be published in the media afterwards
