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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.
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Oparation Epic Fury
Fairford United Kingdom
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Bastille day flypast
Paris 2026 |
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Low flying before the Iniochos exercise Andravida ,Greece |
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Falcon spring exercise , netherlands
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Iniochos
exercise Andravida ,Greece |
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50 Years of the F-4E with the Turkisch Air
Force |
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Cobra
Warrior 23-1 Waddington |
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Last
time F-15C 493FS Lakenheath |
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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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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
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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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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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