report by: Danny Bonny The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Yuma Test Branch, near the present site of U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in 1943. It sits beneath the Laguna Dam on the Colorado River in south western Arizona and is one of the largest military installation in the world. Encompassing over 3,387 […]
Category: military aviation report
Militärflugplatz Meiringen Oct 2016
Report by: Mike Danks Nestled in the bottom of a steep sided valley and taxiways crossing the roads from the cavern hangers, Meiringen Air Base is one of the most stunning bases to photograph aircraft in Europe. The locally based aircraft are F/A-18s of Fliegerstaffel 11 ‘Tigers’ and F-5E/Fs of Fliegerstaffel 8 ‘Vandalos’. But […]
Holloman AFB – 82 ATRS visit – sept 2016
Report by : René Vallée Holloman is located in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin between the Sacramento and San Andreas mountain ranges. The base is about 10 miles west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, on route 70/82; 90 miles north of El Paso. Located on the eastern edge at the southern part of WSMR, Holloman Air […]
F-35 Fightertown augt 2016 LUKE AFB
report by: Thierry Letellier Luke Air Force Base is located in Maricopa County, Arizona and is approximately thirty miles west-northwest from central Phoenix. The geographical coordinates are 112°22’W longitude and 33°32’N latitude. The field elevation is 1090 feet above medium sea level, and the base’s parallel runways are oriented 030° – 210°.The main host […]
TUCSON ANG F-16 Fightertown 2016
report by:Thierry Letellier The unit’s history dates back to 1956 when the 152nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron of the Arizona Air National Guard flew the Korean War vintage F-86A. Late in 1968 the unit received its first of five Air Force Outstanding Unit Citations for converting from the F-100 day-fighter to the all-weather F-102 “Delta […]
RED FLAG – augt 2016 – Nellis AFB
report by: Thierry letellier Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies, is coordinated at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and conducted on the vast bombing and gunnery ranges of the Nevada Test and Training Range. It is one of a series of […]
PITCH BLACK 2016 RAAF Darwin
report by Ian Moy and Thierry Letellier Exercise Pitch Black 2016 is a three week multi-national large force employment exercise conducted from RAAF Base Darwin and RAAF Base Tindal from 29 July to 19 August 2016. 115 aircraft from around the globe were travelling for the exercise including participants from Australia, Canada, France (New […]
EVREUX AB 14.07.2016 Paris Flightpass
Report by: Jacques Vincent et Thierry letellier As every year now ; i try to save some moments to catch the movements generated by the flightpass for the Paris ‘ défilé ‘ expected for the fourteen of July. The most important part of the fighters taking part, are coming from the BA-105 located at Evreux Fauville […]
BELGIAN AIR FORCE Days 2016 Florennes AB
Report by : Jacques Vincent & Thierry Letellier To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Belgian Air Force was presented an exceptional exhibition during the Belgian Air Force Days on the 25th and 26th of June at Florennes Air base in the south of Belgium. 20 years of F-16 operations. In October 2016, with the […]
KADEX 2016 Astana Kazakstan – june 2016
report by: Thierry Letellier The IV International exhibition of weapons systems and military equipment KADEX was held within the period from June 2 to June 5, 2016 in Astana city. Kazakhstan is the largest of the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union. It is surrounded with Russia, China, and the Central Asian […]