Exercise Cobra Warrior 2024
Centred on RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, UK, 10-30 September. Report by Peter Davison and Colin Coulthard This multinational exercise centred on Waddington but utilised assets from across the country. The based participants included eight CF188 Hornets from the Royal Canadian Air Force, Six...
UK Grand Prix Helicopters 2023
Turweston Aerodrome, Buckinghamshire, 9th July 2023 The British Grand Prix is held at Silverstone Circuit and, as the event grows in status and popularity, the road closures and parking restrictions have increased to a point where dawn departures and extreme patience are...
UK Grand Prix Helicopters
Turweston Airfield, Buckinghamshire, England, Sunday 3rd July 2022 Turweston is unusual in these days of General Aviation airfield closures in that it has grown in status over the last decade. This is partly due to it being the Headquarters of Britain’s Light...
Crimson Warrior 2020
RAF Marham, Norfolk, England 19th October – 5th November 2020 With Europe starved of international airshows and the skies above sadly depleted as airlines suffer unprecedented drops in custom, it was good news to hear that exercise Crimson Warrior was to proceed...
INIOCHOS 2018
Andravida Air Base, Greece 12th-23rd March 2018 What appears to have been the fourth of the International Iniochos Exercises took place at Hellenic Air Base, Andovida during March of 2018. A press day was arranged for the 20th March with participation from...
Tactical Leadership Programme 2018
Tactical Leadership Programme 2018-1 Albacete Los-Llanos airbase Spain 29/1 – 23/2/2018 This multinational NATO programme is normally held four times a year. It was initially at Jever in Germany in 1979 before transferring to Florennes, Belgium in 1989. The need for more...
NATO Tiger Meet 2017
Base Aeronavale Landivisiau, Brittany, France 5th -16th June 2017 Every year the NATO Tiger Squadrons, those with a cat image in their Squadron Insignia, gather together to exercise and share their operations. This year it was the turn of 11 F, home...
Anatolian Eagle 2016
Konya Air Base, Turkey 30 May – 10 June 2016 International military exercises are intended to foster cooperation and improve compatibility between Nations. Exercise Anatolian Eagle, held annually in southern Turkey not only achieves this but also fosters good relations between the...
Anatolian Eagle 15-1
Konya Air Base, Turkey, 8-19 June 2015 After visiting the US for many years since the 1980s to observe and sometimes participate in Red Flag exercises, the Turkish Air Force formulated a plan to organise a similar set of exercises closer to...
Red Flag Alaska 15-2
Elmendorf and Eielson AFB, Alaska, USA, 30/4-15/5 2015 Three times a year Red Flag Alaska (RFA) military exercises are held at the two main bases of Eielson and Elmendorf-Richardson just outside Fairbanks and Anchorage respectively. Originally named Cope Thunder, the Pacific Air Forces...