September 18 is a special date for Eindhoven. It is the day the city was liberated by the Allies in 1944. That fact was commemorated for the 79th time on Monday evening. A moment that Eindhoveen resident Marc Rademakers (63) managed to capture beautifully.
The photography and airplane fan knew that around eight o’clock a Spitfire, a historic British fighter plane that served in the Second World War, would fly over the city. At that moment he was ready with his camera on his balcony at Gerretsonplein.
“I had already heard it take off. That is such a special sound,” says Rademakers. “And it could hardly have been better with the beautiful light of the sunset while the Spitfire, the PH-OUQ, almost flew into me. I was in exactly the right place at the right time.”
Rademakers has been photographing aircraft for about forty years. He can therefore regularly be found at Eindhoven Airport and the air base. “When I know something special is about to happen, I grab my camera,” he explains.
And sometimes, like this Monday evening, it turns out very nicely, as can be seen from the photos he sent us.