348 TRS Participates RIAT 2009 \ Photos

Royal International Air Tattoo took place last weekend 18 & 19 of July 2009 in Fairford UK. With over 300+ aircraft participating each year, upwards of 170,000 visitors and support from the Royal Air Force and some of the world’s leading aerospace companies, the Royal International Air Tattoo has been acknowledged as the world’s largest military airshow. Greece participated RIAT 2009 with a RF-4 E Phantom II of 348 Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron which is placed in Larisa 110 CW. Other countries that participated can be found in the following List: Click HERE to view.
The pilots of Hellenic Air Force arrived Fairford on Thursday 16 and left the airport on Monday 20 of July. In the following pictures that are taken from our friend Kostas Tsipas you can see the crew and the technicians that accompanied the RF-4E Phantom of 348 TRS also patches, stickers and book that were sold to viewers of RIAT in Fairford. Please enjoy
348 TRS RF-4 E Phantom II Arrival & Departure Video

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348 TRS Participates RIAT 2009

Hellenic Air Force and 348 Squadron participated Royal International Air Tattoo 2009 (www.airtattoo.com) organised in Fairford England. For that reason special patches were manufactured by Aeronautical, like the following:

You can visit our Gallery to view all of them.

Soon we will get back with a lot of photos from RIAT 2009 and especially the RF-4E Phantom of 348 TRS and its crew & technicians that travelled from Larisa Greece to Fairford… So tune in!!!

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Hellenic Air Force Plaquettes

Really beautiful those plaquettes that Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, a friend of airforce.gr web-site sent us today. They are totally hand made using wood for the base, ceramic material for the body of each aircraft and painting of the camouflage by hand at the end. The thematology at the moment as you can watch is powered by the Hellenic Air Force aircrafts like F-16, A-7 and F-4 Phantom. Soon other figures like Hellenic Air Force squadron emblems and Phantom Spooky are prepared, will be implemented and exhibited through the pages of airforce.gr.

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