AUSTRIAN TIGERS

In December 2009 the famous air-to-air photographer Katsuhiko Tokunaga visited our squadron. He made breathtaking pictures and some of them were added to our gallery!

DonGil Fotoshooting – Making of

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:49:37 +0000

If you are interested in the making of the pictures click

here

Saab J105 OE – a trend setter

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:40:58 +0000

For a foto shooting of DON GIL the J 105 served as spectacular background !

Drama, baby!

looking for a new design

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:15:13 +0000

From summer till winter 2009 we were looking for a new design for one of our aircraft. We recieved approximately 200 proposals. Thanks a lot to all participants!

Some of the designs can be found here:

Airport Festival Innbruck

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:48:46 +0000

Once again the Airport Festival took place in the capital of Tirol, Innsbruck. Together with the Austrian Armed Forces the airport organized an amazing event.

Great weather

During the national holiday and the “Roadshow” we flew a Saab of the Tigersquadron to the Innsbruck. The apron was partly closed so the people could come very close to the different aircraft.

A lot of spectators around the Saab 105

Over 30.000 visitors came to the airport. Beside aircraft from the Austrian Armed Forces like C130 Hercules, Ab212, S70 Blackhawk and the Alhouette 3, a lot of civil planes were exposed. A highlight was the possibility to fly with Niki Lauda as pilot in one of his airliners.

Hicking to the Feuerkogel

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:20:16 +0000

Last year in autuum the Tigersquadron climbed up the Traunstein. In September 2009 we went to the Feuerkogel near Ebensee in Upper Austria.

The Feuerkogel

Our aim was to hike to the top of the 1529m high mountain. We started our trip at the base station of the Feuerkogel Ropeway.

"Do not trespass" - a well known sign for our squadron

After three hours and 1129 meters altitude difference we reached our goal.

The summiteers

Unfortunately the weather changed rapidly. So we were forced to use the ropeway to get back to the valley.

The weather changes rapidly in mountainious terrain

Air Show Wels

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:01:47 +0000

After receiving a cordial invitation (and of course after approval by higher command) we attended this weekend of the 10th-12th July with our tiger-painted SAAB 105OE. The aircraft was accompanied every day by one technician and one pilot to give answers to all uprising questions of the air show guests. After all our Tiger was something special as it was the only jet – not to mention the chic painting.

But who thinks that we were the only highlight of the show is wrong. Although we have already seen loads of impressive stuff at international air shows we still were astonished by some of the other displays. Just to mention some highlights: there was for example the sound of a real Me 109 which flew escort for a Ju 52 followed by some wonderful overflights. Or the amazing two ship formation of T-6 Texan which proved with a quite dynamic display that also civil pilots can do outstanding close formation flying. In between you had the chance to observe classics like a flight (four ship formation) of Bücker Jungmeister or racy performances of model aircraft.
Unfortunately we were not allowed to demonstrate our own display and so – for a pleasant change – we found ourselves in the rows of the spectators. If in future an invitation from Wels should reach us once more we will be happy to attend the air show again. And we would like to mention the well organised team who made this neat little air show a rememberable event.

Airshow Koksijde 2009 (B)

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:42:11 +0000

Our last Airshow in 2009 took us outside of Austria to Koksijde, Belgium. The reason for the airshow was the celebration of the 30 years anniversary of the F-16-fleet in Belgium. Our plan was to start on Friday morning but due to heavy thunderstorms we were forced to delay our flight to Saturday 0715. Our six squadron members reached the destination airfield Koksijde at the North Sea coast without complications 1hr 30 mins later.
Our display pilot was able to do his rehearsal right before the airshow which started at 11 o´clock. Because of the beautiful weather on both days the program took place without any delay.

After the official dinner on Sunday evening we were able to drive to the coast of the North Sea.

On Monday we returned back to Austria. Beside some thunderstorms near Linz we landed safely in Hörsching.