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Exercises and deployments – Exercise Wyvern Tor 2019
Having spent three days embedded with 846 Naval Air Squadron during Exercise Wyvern Tor as they supported the unique Ten Tors Challenge event held on the Dartmoor National Park in south west England, Ian Harding and Kevin Wills report for GAR.
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BlogGAR – Paul Dunn – Military Visitors at Alliance Fort Worth Airport
Alliance Airport in the city of Fort Worth is an airfield which often attracts interesting visitors, particularly transient military aircraft. Paul Dunn reports from two recent visits.
Aviation Feature – The Bücker Bestmann’s ‘Great Escape’
Since 2012, the airshow scene in the UK has become well accustomed to seeing Will Greenwood and his Bücker Bestmann; a very rare machine in this country. In this guest article for GAR, Will explains how he came to acquire the Bestmann and what bringing it back to the UK entailed.
Aviation News – Colorado military assets conduct annual rotary fire-fight training
Over the last couple of weekends both the regular Army from Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, and the Army National Guard from Buckley Air Force Base have been performing their annual ‘Bambi-Bucket’ fire-fighting training at three of the Front Range public reservoirs. Paul Filmer was there for GAR.
Aviation Feature – Japan Pt.1 – Tokyo Narita
Paul Filmer had been interested in going to Japan for a number of years, but unpredictable weather, and not being able to get a suitable group together, had put paid to any plans – until now.
F-16 at 40 – Pt.6 – AETC and AFMC F-16s
As we have seen so far in this series of articles, the majority of the active duty USAF’s F-16 fleet is divided between Air Combat Command, USAFE and PACAF. Much smaller numbers are assigned to Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Force Materiel Command, but their contributions are of great significance.
Aviation Event Review – 20 More Years of The Mighty Buccaneer
It’s hard to believe that it has been 20 years since the iconic shape of the Blackburn Buccaneer left the RAF inventory, but that’s what the celebrations were all about on Saturday 29th March at Bruntinghtorpe airfield, near Leicestershire. With unseasonably mild temperatures, blue skies and sunshine, both models belonging to the Buccaneer Aviation Group, S2Bs XW544 and XW894, both looked superb in their shiny new coats of paint, XW964’s being her first outing for 12 months following an in depth service and a full re-paint. Glenn Beasley was there for GAR.
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