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Dutch
Aviation MEDIA BV 2010
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new article for the independent leading Spanish aviation magazine
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Dutch Aviation MEDIA brings you:
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| Special
thanks to Koos Heemskerk for his support and time ! |
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| DHC
- DUTCH HELICOPTER COMMAND 2010 - A complete overview ! |
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scroll below, and read all about it in our extended article - Exclusive
interview ! |
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story opens with a commando raid at Malden, small town of Holland..... |
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where data had to be secured out of a crashed UAV. |
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show you all inns and outs of this new Helicopter organisation... |
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is located at Gilze-Rijen Airbase in the Netherlands. |
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helicoptertypes, transport, attack, SAR, VIP, Navy, MAOT, maintainance all
of it ! |
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story implicates visits, these were very special to us ! Special thanks to
all !! |
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CHIEF
OF OPERATIONS (H-OPS) |
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APACHE
AH-64D - 301 Sqn |
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you join an exercise, it sometimes delivers very nice poictures, like
autumn colors here |
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| A
row of 'Redskins' AH-64D helicopters at Gilze Rijen Airbase |
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| Gilze
Rijen is the home of the DHC, Defense Helicopter Command for The
Netherlands |
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| Every
picture of this war machine is impressing ! |
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little hop over the tree-top, and there it is ! Taliban disappears where
the Apache appears ! |
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flights all kind of checks are made, and also collegues are instructed. |
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| The
Apache is maintained small outside... and thoroughly inside by certain
programs. |
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only being pilot is a boys dream, for technicians this place is the
walhalla ! |
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separate parts are checked on metal-fatigue, the engines are so well
inspected |
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goes for all kinds of pods and armament as well such as the eye-controlled
gun ! |
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Free fantasy of the Redskins in the Apache hangar at Gilze Rijen |
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| For
every task there are teams, also like for refuelling the machines properly |
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the missions in Uruzgan the squadrons cooperate very tight in exercising |
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the AH-64 sneaks away between trees, in Afghanistan it's not only desert
you meet. |
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unity is essential for work and also typical for the RNLAF personell, if
it comes to flying... |
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or refuelling, maintaining, catering or cleaning. One Team One Mission !! |
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EXERCISE
HOT REFILL |
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neccessary to be able to refill with turning rotors as quickly as possibe... |
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specially for Afghanistan conditions. We joined exercise 'Hot Refill'
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which gave such a nice view on the Apaches on the paltform before
departing. |
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| After
the flights and required checks the machines are parked in their hangars
again. |
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| Here
a view with 'NVG'Night vision goggles on a quala (farm) in Afghanistan |
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| Another
NVG sight on the desert of a Taliban convoy, not just making a cosy
walk..... |
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| The
sign at the entrance of Gilze Rijen, and an own interpretation of the
Redskins logo...... |
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