*** Posted by RUN ***
[If "SPADE" is for Draken You might be right, but I'm just another danish avi.freak! With the age of 40 I've used most of my youth with bending my neck backwards after the destinctive howl of the Starfighters, enjoyning the "humpty dumpty"- moves of the F 100's laying eggs on the clear blue sky by using the burner during dogfight excercises and loving the sight of the Saab double-delta in the air!
Related to my "disbelieving" to the SQ's: there is a fine line between my expression "GO", and Your defence of "the spirit" of today!
Even though my avi. interrest and joy by the European soccerchampionship in '92 (in between i've investigated the "mexico W C" to be in '86!!), I'm not able to remember the "klaphat" story, and are together with Rapier looking foreward to hear (refresh?) it.
I remember Rapier as canadian(?), boy You have got yourself in trouble by mention the "klaphat": I cant see how I would explain what the word covers ;o)

Kim. ]

he he

It must have been nice with all those jets flying around. Unfortunately we only have a fraction of those today.
The "Klaphat" insident actually happened after Denmark won the European soccerchampionship in '92 & the soccerteam was escorted home by F-16s with the pilots wearing "Klaphats".
You are right about me beíng in trouble when I have to explain what a "Klaphat" is, but fortunately I managed to find a picture on the net. But just a short description:

A "Klaphat" is a hat in the Danish colors (Red & White), which have two hands sticking out in the front. By pulling a string you can actually make the hands clap.
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RUN