HAF Open Day: 110 CW Larissa

Mainly rainy the weather in 110 CW located in Larissa but this fact was not a problem for Kostas Alkousis and Dimitris Boudouris who sent us these beautiful pictures from the aircraft exhibition and kiosk used to provide patches, t-shirts, caps etc to the visitors of the unit based in Central Greece.

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HAF Open Day: 114 CW Tanagra

Enjoy some photos from 114 Combat Wing in Tanagra Air Base which flies with Mirage 2000 aircrafts. We thank our friend also known as ‘Leopard‘ and Dimitris Sambanis for the lovely photos they chose to share with us. Click on the images to enlarge.

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New Hellenic Air Force models

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Witty Industrial Co. announced the release of two Hellenic Air Force aircraft models in popular scale 1/72. One for anniversary painted A-7E Corsair of 336 Squadron “Olympos” and another for the F-16C Blk 30 Fighting Falcon of 330 Squadron “Thunder”. The release is awaited in December 2009. For more information please visit their official web-site: here.

We had the honor to get in hand the prototype demonstration model of A-7E Corsair. We thank Jimmy from Witty Industrial Co. for that. We got some pictures and share them with you:

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Remove Before Flight Magazine

The 10th issue of Remove Before Flight Military Magazine is now available for October-November 2009 period. A flight with 338 Squadron F-4E Phantom II is fully described. Photos from briefing and flight will pay you back. More information here.

Interview with Katsuhiko Tokunaga

Photos of Hellenic Air Force’s F-16 block 52+ flood the internet a few years ago. That meant to be the trademark let us say of that particular aircraft and perhaps of HAF itself. These photos were taken from (who else ?) the world famous aviation photographer Katsuhiko Tokunaga who has combined his own name with some of the most elegant protraits of modern jet aircrafts. Recently we had the honor to get a mini interview with Mr. Tokunaga and learn some special things about his career and his flight experience with the Greek pilots.
Q: Hello Mr. Tokunaga and thank you very much for accepting our inviattion for that iterview. Please tell us when did you start your engagement with Aviation Photography and which was the first aircraft that you flew with? A: I’ve been taking of aircraft since my childhood. It was my hobby. I first flew USAF T-33A in 1978.
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Q: How many different countries have you visited? How many different aircraft types have you flown with? Have you counted approximately the total amount of flying hours you have done since today? A: I’m not sure, but about 50 countries and 50-60 different first jets. I have accumulated almost 1,400 hours on military fast jets.

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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!!!

Magazine HAFy 2009/A

The magazine HAFy 2009/A is out now with special thematology. Among others you can read about arrival of F-16 blk 52+ ADV in Araxos AB, 336 squadron the last to fly with A-7 Corsair in Europe, article about Air Tactics Center in Andravida AB, the common exercise of 341 squadron with bulgarian Mig-29, Eurofighter Update program, C-130 Hercules in duty with Hellenic Air Force.

You can taste a topic with an interview of Commander of Hellenic Tactical Air Force talking about Hellenic Air Force in the 21st century. Just click HERE to download the pdf.

Tactical Leadership Programme 2009

Hellenic Air Force participated in Tactical Leadership Programme - TLP 2009 in AB FLORENNES, Belgium during second and third class of 2009 as following:

In second class 2009 (09 March - 03 April 2009) with 2 Mirage 2000-5 of 331 Squadron.

In third class 2009 (04 May - 29 May 2009) with 2 F-16 Block 30 of 346 Squadron.

Photos of Airplanes over the Acropolis

We tried to collect some photos of airplanes that flew over Acropolis which is  formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 150 m (490 ft) above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface area of about 3 hectares. In a few words for any who does not know is the most common symbol of greek nation and democracy since it was built under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, a great Athenian sculptor, and Ictinus and Callicrates, two famous architects, were responsible for the reconstruction. During the 5th century BC, the Acropolis gained its final shape.

For More Information about the Acropolis you could click HERE.

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Anniversary RF-4E Decals

New Decals from THREE STARS DECALS for the two anniversary painted RF-4E of Hellenic Air Force 348 Squadron in the popular scales of 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32. Enjoy the work of Mr. Yiannis Tripolitakis :