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The last station of our the airshow saison 2011 led us to Britain for the legendary Royal International Ait Tattoo! In 2011 the RIAT celebrated its 40th anniversary and as a side event there was also a “Tiger fly-in” on the occasion of the 50-year anniversary of the NTA held. Because of the huge amount of aircraft participating at biggest Airshow in Europe we had to start the journey with our two aircraft on Thursday.
The main event on Friday was the „crew challange“: 16 international teams with four players each competed in diverse caregories: First Aid, skill parcours, precision shooting (pistol and rifle) and survival techniques.
First Aid
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After one year break, the Austrian Tiger squadron was again invited this year to the Innsbruck Airport Festival on 26th October to establish a static display to offer the population of the western parts of Austria the possibility of an insight into the Austrian military-jet-aviation and to allow a direct conversation with the pilot and the technician.
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As mentioned before the new model for the FSX is now ready for download! Please be aware that it is a beta version. It can be found on the download page
Many Happy Landings!!!
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On one hand the name Amadeus stands for a very famous Austrian musician but on the other it stands the biggest exercise for the Austrian Air Surveillance.
During September 2011 the Austrian Armed Forces trained with 2000 soldiers and 42 aircraft the defense against terror. In this fictive scenario Austria’s oil producing industry faced massive attacks in order to destabilze the Austrian government. The aim of the terrorists was to reduce the number of Austrian soldiers within their country.
(Picture: Bundesheer)
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We heard some rumors that a squadron insignia of the Tigerstaffel was seen on highest mountain of Africa. For us it was clear that there is only one way to find out if there is anything true about it: someone has to walk up there!
So one lucky guy (the one who pulled the shortest stick) started his long journey to the Kilimandscharo in September 2011! After a exhausting ascent to the summit were are now 100% sure: it is true!
Of course we have an evidence: here is a picture from the 5895m high mountain:
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The Tigerstaffel was informed that Christian Haiböck is working on a new model for the Microsoft Flight arbeitet.
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One of the greatest and most exciting airshows in Europe with approximately 300.000 visitors takes place in Zeltweg, Austria – the AIRPOWER11. And also the AUSTRIAN TIGER SQUADRON is one part of this airshow. In the one hand with two amazing flying parts, one solodisplay with the new Tiger and one formationdisplay with four J105, and in the other hand also with the static display on the ground with the 2nd tiger-styled aircraft, a shop and the new tiger-tent.
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After years of participation in Tiger and Mini Tigermeets on a regular base we started thinking about hosting an event together with our fellow tigers from Lechfeld. Together with our German friends from 321 squadron we evaluated different possibilities which led us to host a Mini Tiger Meet in Germany and Austria.
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From 9th to 20th Mai Tiger squadron Austria took successfully part in the „Nato Tiger Meet 2011“ air exercise in CAMBRAI/FRANCE. Our overall aim was to evaluate our own procedures in an international environment and to tighten relations to our fellow Tigers.
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After the participation at Rochefort Airschow in 2007 we were lucky to take part again this year. With one intermediate stop at Payerne airbase in Swiss we left behind the bad weather in Austria. After a warm welcome all necessary forms were filled out in a very short time. After the check in we had to push the aircraft by hand to the static position, located on a car parking area in the barracks. With the help of the French ground crew this wasn´t a big deal.
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