ZAP16.COM working hard on NEW website!

October 5, 2008 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

ZAP16.COM is in the process of being renewed.

Screen photo of ZAP16.COM's new look

The old site dates from 5 years ago and is completly written in html, The new site uses a database, and will be fresh and new and most of all easier to manage for the team.

It’s possible to take a look at the new site: www.zap16.com/zapnew

Bell Aircraft Corporation P-39 Airacobra

April 17, 2008 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

Zap16.com entered a new fact sheet to it’s list, The Bell P-39 Airacobra.

The P-39 was a special WW II fighter who had his engine placed in the middel of it’s airframe. Also it featured a nose-cannon which came out in the middle of the propeller. There were some 9000 P-39’s built most of them (about 4000) P-39Q’s like the one on the above picture. The Photo was taken at Duxford airfield in the UK last September 2007 by M. van Leeuwen.

Visit the new fact sheet here: P-39 fact-sheet

Interested in a handcrafted model of the P-39D?

Duxford September Air Show photo’s published at zap16.com

October 4, 2007 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

 

Zap16.com published the first batch of photographs of the September 2007 Air Show.

Find this photoreport at: zap16.com

Paris Air Show 2007 photo report published at www.zap16.com

August 28, 2007 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

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Caught two A380’s in one shot…

ZAPP published their photo report of the Paris Air Show 2007.

Visit zap16.com to see the full results.

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Heavy rains on Friday..

ZAP16.COM update: 87 Volkel AFB Photographs published.

August 22, 2007 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

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The zapp team has published 87 photographs of the Open Day Royal Netherlands Air Force 2007 held at the Volkel AFB June 15th and 16th 2007.

Interested in the publication? Visit the page from HERE.

PARISAIRSHOW.EU opens new blog with latest Le Bourget Air Show news.

May 21, 2007 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

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Zijde Aviation Photo Publishing opens a new weblog with only PARISAIRSHOW news.

The coming month Le Bourget Airport will open it’s gates again to host the 47th Paris Air Show. parisairshow.eu will bring the latest news from the show, and also offers photo pages of the Paris Air Show from the past dating 1985 up to 2005.

New B-17 Flying Fortress FactSheet online.

May 14, 2007 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

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zap16.com published a new Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress fact sheet containing information about one of the most famouse aircraft of World War 2. Find Technical and other interesting facts about this amazing plane.

ZAP16.COM update: New AVRO Lancaster fact-sheet online.

May 9, 2007 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

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zap16.com today published a brand new AVRO Lancaster fact-sheet, be amazed about this WWII british bomber and read all about it.

Lancaster Fact-sheet

New Me-262 fact sheet published at zap16.com

July 13, 2006 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

The zap16.com team has published a new fact sheet, this time it describes the Messerschmitt Me-262 ‘Schwalbe’ the worlds first operational jet-fighter.

You can find the data on three variations of this amazing fighter from WW II.

 

New fact sheets at zap16.com

July 5, 2006 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

Today two new fact sheet were added to the extensive database of zap16.com.

1. Dornier Do-28 Skyservant

2. Beriev Be-200 amphibian aircraft.

Both fact sheets were written and researched by Rob Vogelaar of zap16.com

New Fact sheet published at zap16.com

June 29, 2006 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

 

A new factsheet has been published at zap16.com, it describes the German made Grob SPn.

Find the Factsheet here.

zap16.com ends aviation blog to start aviationnews.eu weblog

June 22, 2006 by Marcel van Leeuwen · Leave a Comment 

The zap16.com team decided to end the zap16.com aviation blog to give more attention to their new website aviationnews.eu that offers worldwide aviation news from various sources.

The ‘old’ aviation blog holds some 154 posts starting last April, and will stay online for an undetermined period of time.

Kind regards,

The zap16.com team.