Hornet is take off with full afterburners and vapours trails from wingtips into first round of live firing with cannon M-61 at Axalp-Ebenfluh shooting range.
Super Puma is descending from Axalp-Ebenfluh shooting range to Meiringen AFB with VIP´s onboard after rehearsal of Fliegerdemonstration Axalp 2008 in tuesday.
During the annual refresher course these Tigers are waiting for yet another mission. In the background the usual net barrier. It was not until the arrival of the Hornet that Switzerland introduced arrester cables.
In today's flight this Hornet had to fly with 1.5-1.7 Mach from Lake Constance directing Lake Geneva and one of the Typhoon's (currently in test by armasuisse) in the other direction.