Dec
13
2006
13. December 06 u. 14. December 06
For the third time members of the tiger squadron organized a mulled wine booth in order to gather money for needy children. During two days we were selling hot wine in front of the NCO mess of the AFB Vogler as well as various articles such as a big eatable [...]
Sep
15
2006
150906 – 180906
For the last time of the year 2006 four members of the tiger squadron started their journey to an air show outside Austria . During the planned intermediate stop in Graz we refueled our J105 and checked the weather once again. Due to thunderstorms in the north of Italy we were forced to [...]
Sep
1
2006
The second part of the reorganisation of the Tigersquadron is now completed. During the last two month our squadron was part of the 2nd aviation regiment but from now on we will belong to the new fighter wing. Our task´s won´t be influenced by this restructure, but our official name changed from 3rd squadron / [...]
Jun
30
2006
30. June 06
On the 30th of June the reorganisation of the Austrian Forces, officially known as “Bundesheer 2010″, had big influence on the Tigersquadron. The 3rd squadron was released from the 3rd aviation regiment in Linz and was handed over to the 2nd aviation regiment in Zeltweg. The aim of the restructure is to get [...]
Jun
29
2006
29 June – 03 Jule 2006
As every year the beginning of summer is a very busy time concerning Airshow participations. A detachment of the Tiger squadron Austria has been to Waddington/UK last weekend.
For us this is a more or less well known airfield as we go there quite often. The journey started Thursday in perfect [...]
Jun
9
2006
09. – 12. June 2006
In June we took part in a Mini – Tigermeet for the first time. The meeting was held by the Czech Tiger squadron from PREROV, which is operating the Mi – 24 “Hind” helicopter.
Jun
6
2006
020606 – 050606
The 2nd of June 2006 was a cold and rainy day in Linz/Hörsching and the weather forecast didn´t expect any improvement for the following weekend. In situations like these you long for being at a sunnier, wormer place than the cold Austria. Four of our squadron were lucky to get out of [...]
May
19
2006
19. – 22. Mai 2006
Finally the airshow season 2006 has started. Our first trip this year took us to ROCHEFORT / FRANCE.
During the initial preparation phase of this airshow we have learned that we unfortunately would not be able to fly with our tiger painted aircraft. Apart of that everything went very well and so [...]
May
15
2006
May 15th – May 18th 2006
As reported last year our squadron has frequent contact to the Swedish flying school. Both sides tried to intensify this relation. The output of these efforts was a squadron exchange that started last year with the visit of our squadron at LINKÖPING in Sweden and was continued this year [...]
Apr
1
2006
April 2006
It has become pretty clear during the last months but now it has happened. The squadron was reinforced by 5 real Tigers. From the time they entered the squadron they did not only improve their flying skills but they also have been integrated into the team and as a final stage they got, after [...]