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Dutch Aviation Support - Fuerza Aerea 2010 publication |
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| A new article for the independent leading Spanish aviation magazine 'Fuerza Aerea' | ||
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| Aranysas published the story in short about Slovenian Airforce... | ||
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| We are happy to show you this extended article about the many aspects... | ||
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| .. that we were to discover in this growing Airforce in Slovenia ! Kees Otten flew the PC-9 himself. | ||
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| TWO BASES: CERKLJE & BRNIK | ||
| Introduction to the types of airplanes in use: | ||
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LET - L-410 UVP-E TURBOLET |
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| The Let L-410 is the fixed wing transport horse of the Slovenian fleet | ||
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| How much bad luck can you have... it was raining cats and dogs during our visit days | ||
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| Never the less the maintainance crew was 'caught in the act' while servicing the Turbo-Let | ||
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| Cerklje Airfield does not only host military planes, but is also a busy civil airfield as well | ||
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EUROCOPTER - COUGAR AS532-AL |
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| The next type is the Cougar, a 'roof-drive' workhorse | ||
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| The type is to be foun on both bases, maintainance provided on the spot | ||
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| We'll be back on this type later on. | ||
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PILATUS - PC-6B PORTER |
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| Who doesn't know this Icon of aviation: The Pilatus Porter for all kinds of jobs... | ||
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| ... reliable to the bone, endless, timeless, and very useful for medium range jobs ! | ||
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BELL 412-SP/HP/EP - GRIFFON |
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| Next to the Cougar the Bell-412 is also a backbone to Slovenian Airforce | ||
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| This machine is used very intense, for several purposes | ||
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| We'll see it back later on, here some images on Cerklje | ||
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| Maintaining, training, SAR, fire fighting... | ||
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| ... it can do it all, this multi purpose helicopter | ||
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| As you see a lot of space for wounded men, a hoist and medical equipment | ||
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| A view in two cockpit variants... | ||
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| ... with many life-saving items such as life-base package and lifepack defibrillator | ||
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| Next to inside, the outside was shown to us, no sunny shot... but this also is reality ! | ||
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| In that case you'd better work in the modern maintainance halls, all new built recently | ||
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| Ok, let the Bell fly, and finally we show you some wrecks and relics on the Slovenian Bases... | ||
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| ... such as this Sabre and an old preserved DC-6B | ||
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