Exercise Flying Rhino 14-30 April 2008

[Otto]

Arrived at Namest (LKNA) on friday (11/4):
RFR7000 3x Tornado RAF Marham
RFR7001 3x Tornado RAF Marham
RFR7002 2x Tornado RAF Marham
RFR7003 2x Tornado RAF Marham

Last saturday (12/4) two AAC Gazelles (participants) made a fuelstop at Buggen.
AAC705/731 ATA ETUR 14:20LT.

Sceduled for today (14/4)
RFR7004 Tornado RAF Marham. ETA 12:50LT (Namest)

[Wim]

Does anybody knows the serials of the 2 gazelles that participate the exercise?

[Le Addeur noir]

One of the Gazelle's was showing on the SBS logs as

XX442 E 666(R) Sqn.

The callsigns would imply one helicopter from each of 658(V) Sqn and 666(V) Sqn.

[Percy]

Tornados went out to Namest as follows:

Friday 11th April:

Dep Marham 0900:
ZA609 as RFR7000A
ZD848 as RFR7000B

Dep Marham 0930:
ZG775 as RFR7001A

Dep Marham 1030:
ZA591 as RFR7003A
ZE116 as RFR7003B

Dep Marham 1055
ZD748 as RFR7002A
ZD851 as RFR7002B


Dep Marham 14th April
ZA373

All had returned back to Marham by 30 April except ZD748 which stayed for the open day, returning to Marham on 2 May.

Gazelles present for the Exercise were:
XX442 (E) and XZ349 (U), both carried 666 Sqn markings and spent the middle weekend at Praha Airport!!!

Hawks present for the first 2 weeks were:
XX284(CA) and XX265 (CK)

The only other non-Czech participants noted were 2 Slovakian L-39's:
1730 and 4707 arrived 20 April.

Percy