Good evening, I spent a total of three days down at Mont de Marsan to witness the official withdrawal of the legendary Mirage F.1 from service in the French Air Force. A total of four Fox Ones received a special camo for the final retirement ceremonie. After all a well organized but quite sad event....
Stars and Stripes mentioned also closure of Aviano Air Base. At least for the American part of it. http://www.stripes.com/news/the-stru...eucom-1.270465 Not looking good. Not aviano but SPANGDHALEM CLOSURE as i understood Read the article carefully. In order to save 2 billion USD anually, Lakenheat...
Nope,
Spotters Day is scheduled and fully booked.
Gendarmerie will take care of the rest of everyone outside base hanging on the perimeter fence with latters etc. .
Went to Nancy last Friday for the 70 Years celebration of EC3/3 Ardennes. The unit painted 648 133-XT in a very beautiful special livery. Photos are heavily cropped, because even media was kept quite far away from the runway. I think they are still worth to share with the community here. http://s1.d...