THIERRY LETELLIER

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 […]

NATO TIGER MEET 2014 Schleswig-Jagel AB

report by: Thierry Letellier     From the 16th to the 27th of June 2014, the 53th Tiger Meet was held in Schleswig Jagel Air Base in the north of Germany towards the Danish border. The exercise involved 11 countries to participate with 70 aircraft.The importance of the annual Tiger Meet is that it gives the […]

D-DAY Anniversary – NORMANDY 6 june 2014

report by: Thierry LETELLIER   2014 marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Allies’ invasion of occupied Europe by air and sea. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops breached the Atlantic Wall on 6 June 1944;Codenamed Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of Normandy on ‘D-Day’, 6 June 1944 was the largest military invasion in history.America […]

FRISIAN FLAG – LEEUWARDEN Air Base 2014-04-09

Report by: T. LETELLIER   Leeuwarden air base organised the Frisian Flag 2014 exercise. Around fifty aircraft from ten countries took part in the exercise at Leeuwarden air base. The Netherlands with 12, Norway with 6, Belgium with 4, Portugal also with 4, and Denmark with 2 ; all deployed the Lockheed Martin F-16 AM/BM Fighting […]

CRUZEX 2013 – NATAL Air Base

Report by; T. LETELLIER   Between November 4th and 15th the new edition of Cruzex took place in Natal, over the areas known as Rio Grande de Norte and Pernambuco. During  Cruzex 2013 eight countries participated with over 90 airplanes. The Cruzeiro do Sul Exercise (CRUZEX) is a multinational exercise organized by the Brazilian Air […]