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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.

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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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!!!

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.

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.

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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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 :

   

From 01 June 2009, all aerial firefighting means of the Hellenic Air Force  are ready to protect the public, forests and the environment in general from possible fire so in order to cover maximum area they have flown to the following airports per type of aircraft:

• CL-415: 2 aircrafts to 113 CW (Thessaloniki), 4 aircrafts to 112 CW (Eleusis) and 2 aircrafts to 117 CW (Andravida).
• CL-215: 2 aircrafs to 113 CW (Thessaloniki), 2 aircrafts to 111 CW (Volos), 2 to aircraft 131 CG (Preveza), 3 aircrafts in the 112 CW (Eleusis), 2 aircrafts to 117 CW (Andravida) and 2 aircrafts in island of Samos.
• GRUMMAN-164 AgCat: 3 to 132 aircraft CG (Agrinion)
• PZL-18 Dromader: 2 aircrafts at each airport  Chrysoupoli, Lesbos, Corfu, Kefalonnia, Lamia, Epitalio Andravida, Tripoli, Kalamata, Sparta and 4 aircrafts in Dhekelia

Source: Hellenic Air Force

The 5th of June is the World Environment Day and one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. Hellenic Air Force is aware of the need for measures to protect the environment. Under this concept applies numerous measures and programs to ensure the environmental protection. In particular Hellenic Air Force develops actions for the implementation of which follows successful partnerships with third parties (Ministry of Environment, local authorities, waste management companies, etc.).

Some of that actions are the following:

• Protection of the natural environment through fire-fighting missions, monitoring forests, afforestation.
• Upgrade of the coasts.
• Limitation of nuisance from noise through proper design of flight operations and other noisy work. Read more »

New wallpapers have been uploaded at the Hellenic Air Force official web-site. Please take a look at them:

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