My name is Mike Kruiper and live in the Netherlands and am 35 at the moment of writing. This site is all about aviation in all its forms, though the emphasis will be on airshows. On this site you can find, videos, photos, reports and interviews to give you an in depth view of what goes on at airshows and the aviation world. Sometimes I'm in the lucky position to have articles and/or photos published in magazines.

When I was young I always wanted to be a pilot, but that is something that didn't happen, my love for planes however, stayed. I got into photography at a young age, photographing just about everything. I loved to go to airports and airshows when I was young and still do. I started photographing with a compact camera, where the planes in the skies were tiny dots, but you could make decent shots of the static planes. At a certain point I wanted more, certainly after seeing the photos on Sky-flash.com by EJ van Koningsveld, and bought my first SLR camera, the Minolta 404si and got better shots.

I only recently stepped over to Digital SLR, my first was a second hand Canon EOS300D and now I use a Nikon D80 with a 70-300mm VR 3.5-5.6 lens and the 18-55mm VR 3.5-5.6 lens. With this site I hope to show people that you don't need the biggest lens or most expensive camera on the planet to make great photos. (It might help though)

I am in the lucky position to have a wife that loves planes as well, her favorite aerobatics team are The Blades and The Red Arrows and her favorite plane is the F-14 Tomcat. My favorite plane is the F-15 Strike Eagle and my favorite aerobatics team are the Red Arrows.

Visitors are allowed to use the photos on this site for private use only. Have fun on this site and if there are any questions or comments feel free to ask.

Equipment list: Nikon D80, Nikkor 70-300mm 4.5-5.6 VR, Nikkor 18-55mm 4.5-5.6 VR, JVC GZ-HM1 Videocamera and the Gopro Motorsports wide for in-cockpit footage.

For Editing: Pinnacles Studio Plus 12 and Corel Paint Shop Pro X2, for fast editing like adding the logo I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

For Web design: A free program called Komodo Edit 5.2.

The photo of me next to the red plane is made by Jos Bornhijm and is copyright (c)2009 JHB Fotografie (click on the name to go this site). A big thanks to Jos for taking the photo and ACVT Teuge for supplying the plane.