{"id":52762,"date":"2023-08-19T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52762"},"modified":"2023-08-25T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:12:56","slug":"the-skillful-demonstration-of-a-swiss-air-force-hornet-fighter-in-the-glarus-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/19\/the-skillful-demonstration-of-a-swiss-air-force-hornet-fighter-in-the-glarus-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"The skillful demonstration of a Swiss Air Force Hornet fighter in the Glarus Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend an air festival was held at the former military airfield of Mollis, in the middle of the Glarus Alps, in Switzerland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/19\/the-spectacular-aerial-display-of-two-swiss-f-a-18-fighters-in-the-middle-of-the-alps\/\">The spectacular aerial display of two Swiss F\/A-18 fighters in the middle of the Alps<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/08\/17\/two-of-the-best-mountains-in-the-world-to-see-war-planes-flying-at-high-speed\/\">Two of the best mountains in the world to see war planes flying at high speed<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The festival held annually at the former airbase, converted into a civil airfield in 2020, has been given a new name this year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zigairmeet.ch\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZigAirMeet<\/a>. <strong>This event mainly brings together historical aircraft<\/strong>, some of them from the Second World War era, although this year it also featured <strong>current combat aircraft<\/strong>, such as a Eurofighter German, a French Rafale, a Belgian F-16 and <strong>a Swiss Air Force demonstration F\/A-18C Hornet fighter-bomber<\/strong>, flown by Captain Yannick \"F\u00f6nsi\" Zanata.<\/p>\n<p>British photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DafyddPhillips\/featured\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dafydd Phillips<\/a>, famous for his excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/08\/17\/two-of-the-best-mountains-in-the-world-to-see-war-planes-flying-at-high-speed\/\">the Welsh Mach Loop<\/a>, has traveled to Switzerland and has published <strong>a video of the formidable display of the Swiss Hornet<\/strong>. The skillful maneuvers of the pilot are adorned, in this case, by a spectacular landscape. <strong>Turn up the volume on your speakers, because the sound is great<\/strong>, with the sound of jet engines bouncing off the mountains:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZIGAIRMEET 23 SWISS F-18 HORNET SOLO DISPLAY\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AXRE9XilmPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here you can see some screenshots from the video<\/strong>, in which we see the Swiss Hornet flying with the rugged mountains of Mollis in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53127888245_73fecefbbd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53126888342_97d5f98578_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53127481006_4cb210500e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53127689644_6fe1df81b5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend an air festival was held at the former military airfield of Mollis, in the middle of the Glarus Alps, in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11549],"tags":[16982,19936,7281,19938,19937,17684,17055,19933],"class_list":["post-52762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-military-history","tag-alps","tag-glarus-alps","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-fa-18-hornet","tag-mollis","tag-mollis-airfield","tag-swiss-air-force","tag-switzerland","tag-zigairmeet"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 05:24:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}