report by: Thierry Letellier Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, are home to RED FLAG-Alaska, a realistic, 10-day air combat training exercise held up to four times a year. Each RED FLAG-Alaska exercise is a multi-service, multi-platform coordinated, combat operations exercise and corresponds to the designed operational capability of […]
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Anatolian Eagle Konya AB june 2015
report by: Thierry Letellier In 2001 Turkish Air Force Command consequently established its own air warfare training centre at Konya air base to be known as ‘Anatolian Eagle’ (AE).Before that Turkish Air Force (TurAF – Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) came for a first time in Nellis Air Force base in the United States , […]
Le Bourget 2015 Paris Airshow
report by: Thierry letellier The Paris Air Show (Salon international de l’aéronautique et de l’espace de Paris-Le Bourget, Salon du Bourget) claims to be the world’s calendar-oldest air show.Established in 1909, it is currently held every odd year at Le Bourget Airport in north Paris, France. The 2015 Paris Air Show, from 15–21 June 2015, […]
FRISIAN FLAG – LEEUWARDEN AB . april 2015
report by: Thierry Letellier In the north west of the Netherlands ( Friesland ) is established Leeuwarden Airforce Base, a very famous place; due to The annual FRISIAN FLAG exercice. From 13th to 24th of April, jointly with European Air-to-Air Refuelling Training held at Eindhoven AB; 322 TACTESS Squadron was the official host of this […]
LIMA Airshow march 2015 Langkawi Airport
report by: Thierry Letellier This year marked the 13 edition of LIMA ( Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition )at LANGKAWI Intl Airport. As chairmanship of Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ ASEAN ] , Malaysian Authorities wanted to highly focused on ASEAN meeting held at the same place and in the same time […]
JASDF HYAKURI december 2014
Report by : Thierry Letellier Also known as Ibaraki Airport , in fact the Japan Air self-Defence Force is now sharing his 2 runways with the Civilian Airport . Basically the Air Base remain on all the eastern side of the field . JASDF Hyakuri is part of the Central Air Defence Force : [ 7e KOKUDAN […]
NAF ATSUGI december 2014
Report by : Thierry Letellier After a five years time ; i decided to return to the southwest suburbs of Tokyo to make a visit to this very intresting Naval Air Station. NAF Atsugi houses both American and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) units and has a mission to provide facilities, services, and material support […]
TYNDALL AFB – 82ARTS oct 2014
Report by: Thierry Letellier In october , we were able to make a visit to the 82 ARTS at Tyndall AFB. it was certainly for us the very last occasion to see in operationnal conditions the vénéralbe QF-4. The official retirement from this squadron is expected in summer 2016. At this time the sole QF-16 […]
AIR14 – PAYERNE AB sept 2014
report by: Pierre-Yves Lecoeur and Thierry Letellier With three major anniversaries; AIR14 certainly had the potential to become one of those show, difficult to forget. Hosted at Payerne Air Force Base in western Switzerland, the event last took place in september 2014. The show was split over two weekends in an attempt to avoid massive […]
BELGIAN AIR FORCE Days 2014 Kleine-Brogel AB
report by: Pierre-Yves Lecoeur Kleine Brogel Air Base (ICAO: EBBL) is a Belgian Air Component military airfield located 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km; 0.92 mi) east of Kleine-Brogel, in the municipality Peer, Belgium. It is home to the Belgian 10th Tactical Wing, operating F-16 Fighting Falcons, which are capable, among other capabilities, of delivering […]