During a year, swiss militia pilots have to fly their IT's (Individual Training's) - meaning to complete around 33 day's a year on their military a/c.
Here a Member of FlSt 8 is retourning from one of his three flights this day.
The last of the commanded 84 Swiss Air Force's Alouette III received lately also a nice Batch, 'celebrating' the last Pilot School educated on this very well known french bestseller. The next Pilot School Class learns on EC635.
This a/c is flown by an exchange pilot of the US Navy - actually from Squadron VFA-113 'Stingers'. He uses his personal HGU-68 Helmet - Swiss Hornet Pilots uses HGU-55 and JHMCS-Helmets.
Upside down directly after the shooting on Ebenfluh Range, this Tiger searches another valley for cover. J-3014 will maybe soon be seen in service as US Navy (VFC-13 or VFC-111) or Marines (VMFT-401) 761539.
Capt Patrick 'Dähli' Dähler is turning his Hornet hard in front of the waiting PC-7 Team during Open Day 2003 - and if you knew that this was only my 2nd day with my then new Nikon D100, then you can understand how proud I was to take such a picture.
J-3001 leads a 4-ship of Tiger J-3014, J-3033 and J-3060. J-3001 and J-3060 were sold to the USN and are flying now as (ex J-3001) 761526 at VFC-13 and (ex J-3060) 761585 at VFC-111. J-3014 was on wet lease in Austria and will be sold also to the USN.
Meiringen in Winter - not easy to take pictures of aircrafts. No sun on them 'cause the mountains blocks it. But very nice activity and marvellous background.
Welcome to Tanbov - among of hundreds of scrapped, stored and active a/c's - this L-29 leads a row with more of it's kind and some preserved MiG-23 and MiG-27
among of hundreds of scrapped, stored and active a/c's - beginning with L-29 and ending with Tu-22 - this MiG-27 is one of the unlucky ones, but still looking fine