De NOS schrijft op 13-2-2020 : Het plan van Defensie om meer te vliegen vanaf vliegbasis Gilze-Rijen gaat in de ijskast. Dat heeft staatssecretaris Visser beloofd aan omwonenden van de Brabantse luchtmachtbasis. Ook deed ze andere toezeggingen aan de bewoners, die al jaren klagen over geluidsoverlas...
Weekly update in the newsletter: This week we are pleased to confirm the Royal Danish Air Force 's attendance, who are always great supporters of the event. This will see the return of the CL-604 Challenger on static display and, returning to the flying display schedule at Fairford for the first tim...
From the newsletter: We're very excited to share with you that, subject to operational tasking, we are hopeful the UK F-35B Lightning and new RAF P-8A Poseidon will appear at this summer's Air Tattoo, representing the airshow's two themes for 2020; Fast Jet Combat Air Power and Intelligence, Surveil...
Via de Reddit link naar Dr. Jerry Pournelle : A long time ago at a Human Factors lab on an Air Force base in Texas, a group of human factors space scientists and Air Force pilots were sitting in the O Club and got to talking about cats and zero gravity. How would a cat orient in micro gravity? Visua...
From the December Vliegende Hollander : $1 miljard voor updates E-3 AWACS-vloot De E-3 Sentry radarobservatievliegtuigen van de NAVO worden de komende jaren voor 1 miljard gemoderniseerd. Secretaris-generaal Jens Stoltenberg en de president van Boeing International, Sir Michael Arthur, ondertekenden...
From the NATO newsroom QUESTION [DPA]: Ansgar Haas, DPA. Secretary General, can you confirm that NATO will sign next week a one billion dollar contract to extend the lifetime of the AWACS fleet until 2035? JENS STOLTENBERG: Yes, I can confirm that we will sign a contract upgrading, modernising the A...
The F-16A preserved at the Royal Military Academy (KMA) in Breda since 1998 was lifted from its stands today to be scrapped and replaced by another one. More info and pictures via Omroep Brabant and BN The Voice . https://img-brabant.rgcdn.nl/a77b8ce85e564d1f86865cf19f644695/opener/Het-toestel-werd-...
Is the KB Spottersday website already mentioned? Be advised! Doors & Info Timings: Parkings accessible: 08:30 GPS: Herenwijerstraat, Peer Doors open and Static: 09:00 First power on: 09:30 End of event: 17:00 Security Reasons Ticketing : For security reasons we kindly ask you to submit one order for...