Glideslope

The Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) is a research center at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The Center operates manned, instrumented research aircrafts in support of the…

The Panamese Air Force operates an Embraer ERJ-135BJ Jungle Jet (serial HP-1A) in the VIP-role for governmental use. It can be seen as the so called “Airforce one” from Panama. The…

I have visited Wittmund, the last Phantom airbase in Germany, where I made some night shots of this preserved German F-4F Phantom II near the barracks of Jagdgeschwader 71 “Richthofen” (JG-71). As it was the 1st of December it was in the middle of the winter, and getting dark very early that day. Here the result of what you can do with a DSLR, a tripod and some patience…

For over half a century the Iroquois helicopter was the main type within the U.S. Army, and the workhorse of the force. The Bell UH-1 Iroquois is a military helicopter powered by a single, turboshaft engine, with a two-bladed main rotor and tail rotor. Therefore it has a characteristic and typical helicopter sound which can be heard from miles away. The helicopter was developed by Bell Helicopter to meet the United States Army’s requirement for a medical evacuation and utility helicopter in 1952…

Based at Taitung Airbase is 737th Fighter Training Wing which also operates the aggressor unit, the 46th TFS. The 46th TFS is a independent command unit and is the ACMI/aggressor squadron for the RoCAF. The inclusion of large numbers of defectors from the mainland in the Taiwanese armed forces enables the aggressor training program to be especially accurate in simulating the tactics of their most likely opponent.

Our main mission is to provide intermediate level and limited depot level maintenance to Army National Guard aircraft throughout the nine Southeastern United States,” as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, said Maj. Andrew Ratcliffe. “We also provide support for the 22 Army Aviation Support Facilities.”

From 14th untill 25th of September 2009 the annual NATO Tiger Meet (NTM) was held at Kleine Brogel airbase (B), and hosted by the based unit 31 Smaldeel.

A wind of change is blowing true Jagdbombergeschwader 31 in Nörvenich, Germany. The first four Eurofighters have been handed over to the Wing just before Christmas 2009. During 2010 the current Tornado pilots will convert to Eurofighter (EF2000) operation and JaBoG 31 will retire her Tornado later this year.

Since November 2009 a former Polish MiG-21MF is parked as an eye-catcher at a farming machine company in Dutch village of Barneveld. This former coldwar Warschaupact jetfighter has always defended…

Over more then half a century the Cessna T-37 has proven it has been a very loyal workhorse for young recruited USAF pilot and NATO pilots from the ENJJPT programme….

Here you can see C-32A (a Boeing 757 airframe) with serial 99-0003 from 1st AS (US Air Force) with Hillary Clinton on board, departing Amsterdam-Schiphol heading inbound London for another meeting.

We have had the possibility to have a look at the base of Fliegergruppe Nord in Gifhorn. Here is what we have seen.