Oranje F-16 will escort Dutch World Cup team home

[RecceJet]

IJmuider Courant - Oranje F-16 begeleidt Oranje naar huis

Een F-16 van de Koninklijke Luchtmacht zal maandagmiddag het vliegtuig van het Nederlands elftal begeleiden. Op de grens van het Nederlandse luchtruim vangt de oranje gekleurde F-16 het toestel van Oranje op.

Dat heeft het ministerie van Defensie zaterdag bekendgemaakt. Onder begeleiding van een tweede jachtvliegtuig van de luchtmacht wordt het elftal naar de luchthaven Schiphol gevlogen. Daar zal het team met een Chinook-helikopter van Defensie verder vliegen.

An orange-coloured F-16 of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force) will escort the aircraft carrying the Dutch football team once it enters Dutch airspace. Once the team has arrived at Schipol international airport, they will continue the remainder of their journey by CH-47 Chinook.

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ANP article and you find it at the Ijmuider Courant, lol?! (circulation 7000)

Airforce site has more info... also Dutch though.
http://www.defensie.nl/luchtmacht/actueel/nieuws/2010/07/10/46167286/F_16_s_heten_Oranje_welkom
http://www.defensie.nl/luchtmacht/actueel/nieuws/2010/07/09/46166296/Oranje_per_Chinook_het_land_in

[RecceJet]

So any more photos of the F-16? I love the Oranje paint-job! I wish Australia did the same for Australian sporting heroes.

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Hmm, posted some nice ones here:
http://www.flightforum.org/index.php/topic,3435.msg19549.html#msg19549
last year here:
http://www.flightforum.org/index.php/topic,2852.0.html
and get one for your desktop here:
http://www.milavia.net/downloads/wallpapers/71.html

got plenty more of the Orange Lion, but there's alrdy so many everywhere.

I love the Oranje paint-job! I wish Australia did the same for Australian sporting heroes.

for the record, the jet is the RNLAF F-16 demo, its paint job was not applied for the world cup... ONE TEAM refers to the airforce... but it fits nicely with the football team as well.

Maybe the second F-16 in the escort will wear some special sticker, but if it said world champions, then guess not.

[RecceJet]

For the record, the jet is the RNLAF F-16 demo, its paint job was not applied for the world cup... ONE TEAM refers to the airforce... but it fits nicely with the football team as well.

That explains the lack of the letters KNVB on the aircraft then! I'd be impressed if the Chinook was orange, though.

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LOL, nice idea, but orange helicopter isn't that original...

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First videos are appearing online:

F-16 escort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rtb83U-ok
http://nos.nl/wk2010/video/171595-aankomst-oranje-in-t-kort.html

Chinook flight + boat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VWnLvSiGPs

Party 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwfJxD6U80