Tag: Koninklijke Luchtmacht
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Exercise Orange Bull 2025
Exercise Orange Bull 2025 is a military training operation conducted by the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) from March 24 to April 4, 2025. The exercise focuses on practicing tactical landings, cargo drops, and parachute operations across various locations in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant, Overijssel, Groningen, and parts of Belgium. As part of…
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Throwback – Exercise Cerberus Guard
In March 2013 the area around the former Twenthe Airbase was the scene of a large exercise called Cerberus Guard where airmobile forces had the objective to capture the airfield.
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Exercise Orange Bull
Between 1 and 5 July 2019 exercise Orange Bull was held at Twente Airport.
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Fire Bucket Operations in Hengelo
In the weekend of 30 June 2018 the Twence waste recycling facility in Hengelo was struck by a large fire. The fire was so intense that the Koninklijke Luchtmacht had to assist the fire brigade with Chinook helicopters. On the evening of 30 June 2018 the fire brigade was alarmed for a fire at Twence…
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Let’s get dirty
After I visited the GLV-V low flying area in 2017 (see https://niekvanderzande.nl/wordpress/helicopter-action-in-glv-v/), I decided it was time to eat some dirt again. Therefore Ramon Wenink and I headed south last week to try our luck in this unique environment. The day we visited GLV-V was the day with the best weather forecast of the week, 27…
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Helicopter action in GLV-V
Throughout the Netherlands, there are several dedicated Low Flying Areas (Gebied Laag Vliegen – GLV). This report focuses on Low Flying Area 5, also referred to as GLV-V. Just north of Eindhoven Airbase, the Oirschotse Heide can be found. The Oirschotse Heide is a large training area used by the Dutch Ministry of Defence next…
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Twente Airport Opened
On Thursday 30 March 2017 Twente Airport was officially opened as a civilian airport. During a ceremony the authority was officially transferred from the Dutch Ministry of Defence to the Province of Overijssel. More than 250 guests attended the ceremonies surrounding this transfer of authority, one of them was Sharon Dijksma, secretary of Infrastructure and…
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Royal Netherlands Air Force Historical Flight
The Royal Netherlands Air Force Historical Flight Foundation, in Dutch ‘Stichting Koninklijke Luchtmacht Historische Vlucht’ (SKHV), was first started in 1969 as an aero club (Stichting Vliegsport Gilze-Rijen) by a group of former Air Force and Navy fighter pilots. The commander of the Gilze-Rijen Air Base at that time supported the renovation of a small…
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A Blast from the Past
Recently I had the opportunity to scan some of the slides that I took at Twenthe Airbase in the nineties and the beginning of the new Milennium. Looking at those pictures brings back nice memories, so why not share those pictures as well. 1996 Open House The Open House usually brought many nice visitors to…