Tactical Weapon Meet at Florennes AB/Belgium 2017
The Tactical Weapon Meet was organized by the 1st Squadron of the Belgium Air Force. Nowadays, the 1st Squadron is part of the 2nd Wing and based at Florennes, in the Ardennes in the...
The Tactical Weapon Meet was organized by the 1st Squadron of the Belgium Air Force. Nowadays, the 1st Squadron is part of the 2nd Wing and based at Florennes, in the Ardennes in the...
The central European country of Austria is quite small, at nearly 83,000 square kilometers (or 32,000 square miles and roughly the size of the state of South Carolina); the possibility to train with its’ Eurofighters...
Article and photography by Peter Boschert The 2017 edition of Frisian Flag was conducted between March 27th to April 07 2017 at Leeuwarden AB in the North of the Netherlands. The participating refueling aircraft...
2016 Annual Leapfest Competition 1 to 9 August 2016 I attended the annual Leapfest competition, held at the University of Rhode Island, on 6 August 2016. This was my 3rd time attending, and is...
The CH-53 was developed in the early 1960s as a fast, all-weather and heavy transport helicopter for the United States Marine Corps. The German Bundeswehr bought 112 of these transport helicopters beginning in 1972, which...
The photography of Dietmar Schreiber/aviation-media.com The Transall C-160 was developed in the 1960s by the German-French consortium Transportation Alliance consisting of MBB, VFW-Fokker and Aerospatiale, as a tactical transport aircraft. The type designation of...
The photography of Dietmar Schreiber/aviation-media.com During the Second World War, De Havilland was primarily known for the production of over 7700 Mosquitos. In 1943 De Havilland started to develop a successor for the DH89...
The base was founded as Alamogordo Army Air Field on 10th of June 1942 as a training field for much needed pilots in the USAAF. On 13th January 1948, the base was renamed to honor...
Anatolian Eagle is an exercise, which is held at 3ncu AJÜ (Main Jet Base) Konya in Turkey, hosted by the Turkish Air Force. This exercise is similar to Red Flag, the ultimate air combat...
In March 2015 I was in Tucson once again and was able to spend a day in the area of the 309th AMARG. The third largest Air Force in the world sits here on 2,600...
When we arranged the visit to AMARG in 2007, we thought of sun, heat and dust. We packed our boots, we bought special sunscreen and we prepared some t-shirts for the day. Plenty of...
During the Cold War, the United States based the EF-111A/F-111E & F-111F with the 20th & 48th TFW in the United Kingdom. While the 20th TFW received the F-111E and later the EF-111A Raven,...