{"id":66069,"date":"2026-07-07T20:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66069"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:45:55","slug":"eight-spanish-fighter-jets-over-new-york-and-a-b-29-bomber-over-the-ship-juan-carlos-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/07\/eight-spanish-fighter-jets-over-new-york-and-a-b-29-bomber-over-the-ship-juan-carlos-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Spanish fighter jets over New York and a B-29 bomber over the ship 'Juan Carlos I'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More images continue to arrive of the spectacular naval and air parade on July 4th in New York for the 250th anniversary of the USA.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/05\/the-large-spanish-military-presence-at-the-united-states-250th-anniversary-events\/\">The large Spanish military presence at the United States 250th anniversary events<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/06\/the-spanish-aircraft-carrier-juan-carlos-i-displayed-by-the-us-navy-in-norfolk\/\">The Spanish aircraft carrier 'Juan Carlos I' displayed by the US Navy in Norfolk<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/05\/the-large-spanish-military-presence-at-the-united-states-250th-anniversary-events\/\">we already saw here the large Spanish representation in that parade<\/a>, with several Navy ships and eight fighter jets from the Air Force and the Navy's Air Wing (FLOAN). Last Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@airshowfansh\" target=\"_blank\">Zinger Aviation Media<\/a> <strong>published a complete video showing the July 4th air parade over New York:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sail4th 250 - International Aerial Review\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71dcVqVS6AQ?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>In the video, we can see the Spanish participation in the parade. At 28:04, we see <strong>four Harrier II Plus fighter jets from the 9th Squadron of the Spanish Navy<\/strong> appear in the distance, flying in a diamond formation. The aircraft were unarmed and had an external fuel tank under each wing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55380201679_7524026318_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55380201679_fdd8ff0c9f_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>At 29:03, we see four Spanish Air Force fighter jets in the distance<\/strong>, specifically two EF-18M Hornets from Wing 15 and two Eurofighters from Wing 11, also in a diamond formation, with the Hornets flanking them. All four aircraft were unarmed. The EF-18Ms carried three external fuel tanks, and the Eurofighters carried two each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55380201684_6250bfa53f_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55380201684_d7b3852268_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In addition to the fighter jets, an A330M MRTT multirole aircraft from Wing 45 also participated in this parade<\/strong>. It can be seen starting at 18:02 in the video. This aircraft provided in-flight refueling for the two EF-18Ms and the two Spanish Eurofighters that flew to the United States to participate in this parade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55379121052_9b196ef5b2_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55379121052_0f328c3794_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the first time nine Spanish military aircraft have flown over New York,<\/strong> as far as I know. These are images that will be very difficult to repeat, but there's an even rarer sight. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CAFMediaTV\" target=\"_blank\">Commemorative Air Force<\/a> <strong>released a video filmed from the B-29 bomber \"Fifi\" that participated in the parade<\/strong> (you can see it at the beginning of the Zinger Aviation Media video). \"Fifi\" is one of only two B-29 Superfortresses still airworthy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/01\/05\/asi-es-por-dentro-fifi-uno-de-los-dos-unicos-bombarderos-b-29-que-aun-continuan-volando\/\">We saw it here in 2019 in a video recorded from inside.<\/a> In this new video, we can see it flying over New York last Saturday, in footage recorded from the port wing of that historic World War II aircraft:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside FIFI&amp;apos;s Epic July 4 Flight Over New York Harbor | POV from the B-29 Superfortress\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZREc_LGuTo?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>\"Fifi\" flew over the naval parade<\/strong>, passing over the Upper Bay and the Hudson River and leaving spectacular images like this one, in which we see <strong>this historic bombing run flying in front of the enormous World Trade Center tower:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55379082417_5f1c395b07_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55379082417_522253c624_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>However, the image that most caught my attention was the following.<\/strong> I'm sure Spanish readers of this blog will recognize a familiar silhouette:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55380020866_a087c7c1cc_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55380020866_5cdf8d425d_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we can see an enlargement of the previous image, with <strong>\"Fifi\" flying over the aircraft carrier \"Juan Carlos I\" L-61, the flagship of the Spanish Navy<\/strong> and one of the naval units that represented Spain in that parade:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55379082387_426cc4ecba_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55379082387_99dc399615_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GZREc_LGuTo\" target=\"_blank\">Commemorative Air Force<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More images continue to arrive of the spectacular naval and air parade on July 4th in New York for the 250th anniversary of the USA.<\/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":[11546,19630,15961],"tags":[1111,1239,1240,1247,1248,2245,7493,10431,10505,10669,11229,11875,12268,15498,18531,24212],"class_list":["post-66069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-aviation","category-1a-plana-defense-eng","category-bloque-6-english","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-eav-8b-harrier-ii","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-ef-18-hornet","tag-ala-15","tag-ala-11","tag-eurofighter-typhoon","tag-9-escuadrilla","tag-commemorative-air-force","tag-united-states","tag-new-york","tag-spanish-navy","tag-aircraft-carrier-juan-carlos-i-l61","tag-spanish-air-force","tag-boeing-b-29-superfortress","tag-airbus-a330-mrtt","tag-aircraft-fleet-of-the-spanish-navy-floan","tag-ala-45"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 23:05:43","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\/66069","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=66069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}