AAAAXALP
2012 SWITZERLAND AAA
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Aviation MEDIA 2012
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Axalp 2012 exercises.
Aeronautica & Difesa reports
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Ok, let's proceed. Nice to see you back here ! |
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the weather was so to say extremely bad. |
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Next
to that one of our planned associates could'nt join us at the last
moment... |
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this caused that we could not make the 'Alps-session to a good succes on
our own. |
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In
such a case you have to rely on a friendly collegue, who - sportsmanlike -
provides us with some images. |
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So
the credits of the first twelve pictures on this website-page are for
Peter Steehouwer... |
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showing us the real stuff of the exercise between the Axalp mountains ! |
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Here's
a target hit very well ... |
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and yes, they do fly this low and extremely concentrated ! |
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First
time this year the new chosen SAAB Gripen participated in the Axalp
exercises... |
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and ofcourse a lot of F-5 Tigers, operational... |
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and the ones that fly in the Swiss demo-team the 'patrouille Suisse'. More
about the F-5 hereafter. |
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This
is what a photographer gives the goosebumps, such an image of the F/A-18
Hornet ! |
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A
lot of material was brought uphill by helicopters, als nice for the
present spectators ! |
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These
Eurocopters departed from Alpnach, which was also visited by us
in.... rain... ;-(( |
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Ok,
well, more about the F-5 Tigers now. Oh yes, you can make a lot of almost
similar images... |
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and this time it's very functional both ways because the F-5 Tiger will
soon retire from the Swiss Airforce... |
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one very good reason. The other reason was because of the bad weather. |
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The
grasslands where cars had to be parked were sodden of the falling rain for
days... |
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so the regular (conrete) runway had to be used as a parkingplace, and for
that reason... |
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most Tigers and Hornets had to be translocated to Sion in the Rhone-valley. |
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Making
the best of it we decided to dedicate some attention to this airfield.... |
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and particularely the F-5 Tigers, while the weather at Sion was so much
better and it gave us the opportunity... |
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We
hope you liked the impressions, below you can read the article if you like. |
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Article in Englishl |
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Thanks
for your attention, and thanks to all who made it possible again. Axalp
2013 will be there as well !! |
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