Category: military aviation report

report by : Thierry LETELLIER            Naval Air Facility Atsugi is the largest Naval Air Facility in the Pacific and is home to Carrier Air Wing Five, the Navy s only permanently forward-deployed air wing. Carrier Air Wing 5 operates from the USS KITTY HAWK, conveniently stationed in Yokosuka, only fifteen miles […]

report by: Thierry LETELLIER   Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan The Korea Conflict of 1950 emphasized the need for maintaining a naval presence in Okinawa. On February , 1951, the US Naval Facility, Naha, was activated and later became commissioned on April . Commander Fleet Activities, Ryukyus was commissioned on March 8, 1957. On May […]

Report by: Thierry LETELLIER and Pierre-Yves LECOEUR   Franco-Saudi Green Shield exercise took place on the Base Aérienne 102 near Dijon; between 5 and 16 october 2009. The Royal Saudi Air Force deployed for the event five F-15C Eagle and one F-15D Eagle and almost 175 personel from 5 Squadron based in TAIF ( King […]

report by Pierre-Yves LECOEUR and Thierry LETELLIER The course involved as usual, all aspects of NATO flying tactics that have been developed over the last 30 years of TLP. What was significant about TLP 2009-3 was that it was the last to be held at Florennes, its home for the last 20 years. As TLP […]

report by : Thierry LETELLIER   In august 2008 ; i was lucky enough to spend a full journey on the beach near NAS North-Island in Coronado California . The local traffic was not really impressive but the visitors flow was constant and sustained The first one , under a completly overcast grey sky due […]

report by : Thierry  LETELLIER Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) in Nevada is the home of the US Air Force Warfare Centre(USAFWC).The first Red Flag took place at Nellis in 1975. It was realised during the Vietnam War that pilots who survived ten combat missions were significantly more likely to survive subsequent missions. The aim […]

report by: Pierry-Yves LECOEUR   During the last week of january and the first of february 2008 was held on Base Aerienne 115 at Orange-Caritat the exercice { Chef de Mission }. This exercice is in each point comparable to the NATO TLP ( Tactical Leadership Programme ) but with the specificity to only involve […]