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Dutch Aviation MEDIA 2010 |
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A new article for the independent leading Italian aviation magazine | ||
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Dutch Aviation MEDIA brings you: |
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Special thanks to Koos Heemskerk for his support and time ! | ||
DHC - DUTCH HELICOPTER COMMAND 2010 - A complete overview ! | ||
Do scroll below, and read all about it in our extended article - Exclusive interview ! | ||
The story opens with a commando raid at Malden, small town of Holland..... | ||
..... where data had to be secured out of a crashed UAV. | ||
We show you all inns and outs of this new Helicopter organisation... | ||
....which is located at Gilze-Rijen Airbase in the Netherlands. | ||
All helicoptertypes, transport, attack, SAR, VIP, Navy, MAOT, maintainance all of it ! | ||
Every story implicates visits, these were very special to us ! Special thanks to all !! | ||
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CHIEF OF OPERATIONS (H-OPS) |
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APACHE AH-64D - 301 Sqn |
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When you join an exercise, it sometimes delivers very nice poictures, like autumn colors here | ||
A row of 'Redskins' AH-64D helicopters at Gilze Rijen Airbase | ||
Gilze Rijen is the home of the DHC, Defense Helicopter Command for The Netherlands | ||
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Every picture of this war machine is impressing ! | ||
A little hop over the tree-top, and there it is ! Taliban disappears where the Apache appears ! | ||
After flights all kind of checks are made, and also collegues are instructed. | ||
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The Apache is maintained small outside... and thoroughly inside by certain programs. | ||
Not only being pilot is a boys dream, for technicians this place is the walhalla ! | ||
All separate parts are checked on metal-fatigue, the engines are so well inspected | ||
That goes for all kinds of pods and armament as well such as the eye-controlled gun ! | ||
Left: Free fantasy of the Redskins in the Apache hangar at Gilze Rijen | ||
For every task there are teams, also like for refuelling the machines properly | ||
For the missions in Uruzgan the squadrons cooperate very tight in exercising | ||
Here the AH-64 sneaks away between trees, in Afghanistan it's not only desert you meet. | ||
This unity is essential for work and also typical for the RNLAF personell, if it comes to flying... | ||
... or refuelling, maintaining, catering or cleaning. One Team One Mission !! | ||
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EXERCISE HOT REFILL |
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It's neccessary to be able to refill with turning rotors as quickly as possibe... | ||
... specially for Afghanistan conditions. We joined exercise 'Hot Refill' ... | ||
... which gave such a nice view on the Apaches on the paltform before departing. | ||
After the flights and required checks the machines are parked in their hangars again. | ||
Here a view with 'NVG'Night vision goggles on a quala (farm) in Afghanistan | ||
Another NVG sight on the desert of a Taliban convoy, not just making a cosy walk..... | ||
The sign at the entrance of Gilze Rijen, and an own interpretation of the Redskins logo...... | ||
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