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Alconbury 14 Aug 1982

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Ramstein 1986
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Two more F-111s!
One on the flightline of Chièvres during the airshow of 1986.
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And a EF-111A landing at Upper Heyford in July 1985.
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Tres Jolie! @ Eagle

(that is French for: HolyF..ckadoodle! Nice shots!)

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TAM (Tactical Air Meet) 1982 was held at Jever and Wittmund. While Jever housed the attack and recce tasked jets including USAFE F-4E's , Wittmund played host to A/D tasked types. Apart from based F-4F's, these included RAFG Phantoms, Belgian F-16's and USAFE F-15's.

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The Open House at Ahlhorn (then a USAFE A-10 FOL) on 22 September 1984 featured a helicopter winching contest. Among the contenders was this UH-1N 69-6611 from the 67ARRS, det Zaragoza.

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Later still, in 1988, the NATO Tactical Air Meet was held at CFB Baden Sollingen. USAFE sent these beauties, apart from F-15's and F-16's.

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Wow Hans!! some very nice catches at the TAM at Söllingen, great stuff, that are the pics I hoped for, all those NATO exercises in Europe with AFRES, ANG and of course USAFE jets that visited Europe back in the 80's. I remembered that Denmark also was a good host of the shows.

Maybe a start of another topic;-)

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Nice ones Hans!!

That HH-1 is a rare beauty and a nice addition to the fighter hardware! :good:

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1. also at the TAM 1988
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3.and another TAM 1988
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P.Terlouw wrote:1. also at the TAM 1988
Good to see them, Peter!
Where you with the Onze Luchtmacht flight with F.27 C-11 as well that day? Did you fly one sector or both ways?

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:) yes Hans. I go there by bus and went back with the C-11 from Strassbourg (Nellie Speerstra in the right seat). I have some cabin shots so if you were there also......
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P.Terlouw wrote::) yes Hans. I go there by bus and went back with the C-11 from Strassbourg (Nellie Speerstra in the right seat). I have some cabin shots so if you were there also......
I went the other way. Flew in via Strassbourg shooting some of ER33's Magisters and went back by bus on the night "we" won the Euro Cup.
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A behind the scenes player within USAFE during the sixties, seventies and eighties was Silk Purse. This codename was given to a number of Boeing EC-135H with 10 ACCS as airborne command posts. 61-0291 was seen at the 1988 Mildenhall Air Fete on 28 May that year.

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