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Sion was one of four Swiss Air Force Bases with regular military jet traffic. Because of the redimension of the Swiss Air Force decided the withdrawal from Sion and the last Training Course with lots of flying activity, called Wiederholungskurs...

Payerne is the largest Air Base of the Swiss Air Force. It hosts Fighter squadrons Sqd17 Falcons and Sqd18 Panthers, the militia F-5E Tiger II Squadron 6 Ducks and the Transport squadron LT1. Every year the troops are doing a two-week Repetition...

Meiringen is one of four Fighter Air Bases of the Swiss Air Force. Every year pilots of the Fighter Squadron 11 (F/A-18 Hornet), Fighter Squadron 8 (F-5Tiger) and ground crews of the Swiss Air Force are training their skills during a WK...

The "Air Zermatt" was founded in 1968 with a helicopter, a pilot and a mechanic. Currently, the company employs about 65 people on the three bases Gampel, Raron and Zermatt. Nine helicopters are flying today in the fleet of "Air Zermatt": 2 Lamas,...

During the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships 2017 in St. Moritz the Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) was flying an air display with a new Bombardier CSeries 100 Airplane together with the "Patrouille Suisse". I made a one day trip to St....

Green Flag-West is a realistic air-land integration combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies that is primarily conducted in conjunction with U.S. Army Combat Training Center exercises. The Exercise takes...

During my trip through the west of the USA I attended an Airshow in Hillsboro, the “Oregon International Airshow”. It was a nice family friendly show with just one international participant: the “Breitling Jet Team” which I already saw many...

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is one of the largest international airports in the United States and it is the seventh busiest airport in the world. 2015, LAX handled over 70 Million passengers. The Airport has four east-west parallel...

"Red Flag" is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted several times a year at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. During my trip through the USA in Summer 2016 I had the opportunity to stay 2 days in Las Vegas. Unfortunately the...