December 2024

Even though 2024 still has a few more weeks to go, this is the last online edition for Scramble this year. The next one will be the first Sunday in January 2025, so with that in mind we would like to wish all of you (subscribers, readers, contributors and fellow aviation enthusiasts) Merry Christmas and a magical New Year, filled with lots of exciting trips, pictures and movements across the globe!

Back to this month’s affairs and we are slowly catching up with our Movements, with both the Netherlands and Military Elsewhere being back in action. In addition, we have one article; Cruzeiro do Sul Exercise 2024, written by Ian French. It is the largest exercise in South America and attracts participants from all over the continent as well as the USA.

We have started preparations already for our special publications, which should be available around March-April 2025. In the coming months we will start calling for pictures and other useful information.

The January 2025 edition will be available from Sunday 5 January and the deadline for photos is Tuesday 31 December.

Phantom's Phiftiest with the Turkish Air Force was celebrated with an elephant walk at its remaining operating base Eskişehir, preceded by a spectacular series of flybys in nearby Çalkaya Canyon the day before. Dino van Doorn was, of course, among the many thrilled spectators on the canyon slopes on 16 November 2024.