In
this section you will find accounts of visits
we made to several countries and exercises and base visits over
the years
All reports are made at the discretion off our
host, so some items seen during these visits are not reported. |
2023 |
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Cobra Warrior 23-1
Waddington |
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2022 |
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Last time F-15C 493FS
Lakenheath |
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2021 |
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Weapon Instructor Standardisation 2021 exercise at
Rijswijk (GE) |
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2020 |
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WRK at meiringen 2020 |
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HWCI Training in the Rotterdam harbour |
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Blue Wings 2020 Norvenich |
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Training area GLV-V
near Oirschot |
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3rd Combat Aviation Brigade transits
via Rotterdam |
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2019 |
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B-52's deploy to
RAF Fairford |
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93 FS Mako's deployed to RAF
Lakenheath |
2018 |
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A visit to 3
RHC at Etain |
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Japan and Taiwan December 2018 |
2017 |
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F-35A Lightning II
on deployment at RAF Lakenheath April 2017 |
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2016 |
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F-22 Raptors on
deployment at RAF Lakenheath May 2016 |
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On Monday 23rd 2016 at Leeuwarden AFB ,
two Netherlands F-35 Lighting II’s landed |
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Thracian Thunder 2016 was held at Graf Ignatievo Air Base in February 2016 |
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The Royal Netherlands Air Force hosted
the Frisian Flag 2016 exercise at Leeuwarden AB. |
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This year’s Anatolian Eagle took place between the
30th of May and the 10th of June |
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2015 |
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194th Fighter Squadron F-15C Eagles taxi out to the
runway during a Operational Readiness Exercise at the 144th Fighter Wing
March 7, 2015 |
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Last Call for the Dutch's SE.3160 Alouette III
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VFC-13 "Fighting Saints" at
NAS Fallon provides adversary training for the USN |
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The Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) is the place to
train the Navy's Air Wings for combat |
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Red Flag 2015-2, the air combat exercise held from March 2 to 13,
2015 out of Nellis AFB |
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The 309th Aerospace
Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis Monthan |
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California Army
National Guard at Stockton receives its new CH47F |
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CAL FIRE is short for California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection |
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Sea-faring dragons visit European ports |
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US ANG F-15's at
Leeuwarden AFB during Frisian Flag 2015 |
2014 |
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Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is the
Navy’s premier naval aviation installation in the Pacific Northwest. |
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During a visit at Nordholz naval air
station, the new organisation of the Marineflieger is reviewed . |
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One of the best if not the best place to still find beautiful old
Propliners in daily service is Alaska |
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a full report on Anatolian
Eagle 2014/2 at Konya AFB Turkey. |
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From the 16th to the 27th of June the 53th Tiger Meet was held. This
time at the north German airbase at schleswig Jagel |
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The Royal Netherlands Air Force hosted
the Frisian Flag 2014 exercise at Leeuwarden AB. |
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Sion Switzerland
for the
2014 Wiederholungskurs which coincides with the WEF
CAP-flights |
2013 |
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Between November 4th and 15th the
seventh edition of Cruzex took place in Natal,
Brazil |
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Early morning choppers at Gilze Rijen AB |
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A visit to JG 73 "Steinhoff" at Laage AB |
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Anatolian Eagle 2013/2 at Konya AFB Turkey |
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Almost 40 years to the day of their first flight,
Luftwaffe F-4 Phantoms are still flying daily missions, but only from
the Ost-Frisian airbase of Wittmund |
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Frisian Flag international exercises, took place from 15 to 26 April
2013, at Leeuwarden Air Base |
2012 |
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From April 30th until May 11th 2012, Fliegerstaffel 8 and Fliegerstaffel 11
had the flying part of there yearly Wiederholungskurs at Meiringen |
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From April 30th until May 11th 2012,
Lufttransportstaffeln 6 and 8
had there yearly Wiederholungskurs at Alpnach |
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Eurofighters at
Zeltweg, Austria taking part in the WEF 2012 with exercise "Daedalus 12"
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2011 |
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Reims-Champagne, the
last base flying the Mirage F1 in the French air force until June this
year |
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A visit to the 204. Aviation Brigade's at
Batajnica Serbia. |
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A visit to Swartkop AFB, South Africa |
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2010 |
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In
October 2010 we were invited to join the Polish Ministry of Defence
photo tour |
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This year we went to England and Wales. In Wales
we hoped to do some low flying action but that had become uncertain due
to the effects of the I am with stupid "scandal". |
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Culdrose and Predannack
The Fleet Air Arm in Cornwall |
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The India -France joint
Air Exercise 'GARUDA -IV' began on Monday June 14 th at Istres and
Orange Air Base in southern France |
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"Coldest January in ages" - a warm welcome at Gilze
Rijen
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Reims still going strong ,a other day at BA112
Reims-Champagne |
2009 |
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This
May we where given the change to visit the Hellenic Air
Force.
Next to visiting the Air force where able to arrange visits to the Army
and Navy helicopter elements |
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From 5 to 16 October 2009, the year
Franco-Saudi Green Shield (Bouclier Vert, in French) exercise took place
on the Base Aérienne 102 near Dijon. |
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Sion Switzerland
to catch the Wiederholungskurs which coincides with the WEF
CAP-flights |
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the new demo bird for the Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 demo team at Volkel |
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Meiringen, One of the most scenic bases of
Europe |
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Phantom
mania at Wittmund |
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Swiss helicopter town Alpnach |
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2008 |
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Australia |
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Greece Air days |
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Graz Austria , last days
of the F-5 |
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Helicopters,
helicopters and more
helicopters.
Two days in July got us on base visits to HMS Heron near Yeovilton in
Somerset, Gosport near Portsmouth and Arborfield near London. |
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Meiringen Switzerland
during the WEF 2008 |
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A day at BA112
Reims-Champagne. During the whole day taking pictures was on the mind of
our host making this one of the best visits I had for years in France. |
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Visit to Baldonnel.
On the 23 of April we had a change to see the changes made within the
Air Corps since our last visit in 2002. |
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On
the 19th of May we were welcome at Marine Nationale BAN Hyères-La
Palyvestre. Situated direct at the Mediterranean sea |
2007 |
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Coningsby Fighter Town
UK. On booth
day's we saw about twenty aircraft flying, as well in the morning as
afternoon mission |
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A other day well spend
at Florennes,
for the TLPTLP 2007-5. |
2006 |
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A trip to the major
basis in Portugal and to Talevera in Spain |
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Tiger meet at Albacete.
With over
50 aircraft and chopper from ten tiger squadrons it was a one of the
bigger meets held in the last years. |
2005 |
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Korea and Japan |
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We went to Coltishall for
a last glimpse of a fast disappearing aircraft type, with the forward
closing date of operational flying of the RAF. |
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A visit to the lynx
squadron at de Kooy and Skyline aviation. |
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NAF Atsugi 21th October
2005
The Naval Air Facility Atsugi lies close to Tokyo, surrounded by housing
and other developments. |
2004 |
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2002 |
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Baldonnel IAC |
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On invitation of the
Fortele Aeriene Romane (The Romanian Air Force) we made a trip along
some Air Bases |
2001 |
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CND 2001 |
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2000 |
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A visit to the 124th Wing,
Idaho Air National Guardbased at Gowen Air National Guard Base |
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1990's |
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Saalfelden, 23 March 99 during the Austrian Air force high altitude helicopter training
course |
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1980's |
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17-07-1986 a day at Wyton.
With all the different Canberra squadrons. And three Nimrod R1 down the
taxi track. |
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The Tactical Air Meet of
1984 was held at Gilze-Rijen air force base in The Netherlands |
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