Post by Djamald on Nov 27, 2005 18:11:00 GMT 2
Good news: found this on the Touchdown mailing list.
"More Flankers in France next year. No dates, as yet, but
watch
this space.
For anyone who might be considering a jaunt down, Colmar is a great
base for
photgraphy from outside and, during ODAX '01, the local Gendarmerie
were
just about the friendliest we encountered (thanks to regular visits by
Swiss
photographers I'm led to believe)!
Russian Military Pilots To Visit French Airbase in 2006
Pilots of the Lipetsk air center and the Normandy-Niemen regiment will
make
an official visit to France's Colmar airbase in 2006, Russian Air Force
Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Mikhailov said on Monday.
"Joint flights are to take place during the visit. The delegation,
which
will be led by Lipetsk airbase commander Major General Alexander
Kharchevsky, comprises over 60 people, including Russian veterans of
the
Normandy-Niemen regiment and officers who serve in this regiment today.
Russian pilots will fly to France on four Su-27 planes and an Il-76
military-transport plane," Mikhailov told Interfax-Military News
Agency.
A delegation of French veterans of the Normandy-Niemen regiment will
attend
the opening of a memorial at the 7th Central Clinical Air Force
Hospital in
Moscow on Friday. The memorial is devoted to pilots of the
Normandy-Niemen
regiment, Mikhailov said.
He recalled that a delegation of the French Normandy-Niemen regiment
visited
the 18th Guards Vitebsk-based regiment, also known as the Russian
Normandy-Niemen regiment, in spring this year. Senior Lieutenant Marcel
Lefevre, a French citizen and a Hero of the Soviet Union, is put on the
personnel list of the Russian regiment for eternity. The regiment's
best
pilot gets the right to make a flight in Lefevre's honor monthly.
French Ambassador to Russia Jean Cadet gave Russian military pilots
Major
General Alexander Kharchevsky and Colonel Anatoly Fetisov the French
order
For Merits late last week. According to the ambassador, the two pilots
made
a personal contribution to the development of relations between the two
countries.
Source: Interfax-AVN (21st November, 2005)
--"
This could be a very good reason to visit the Alsace region next year.
"More Flankers in France next year. No dates, as yet, but
watch
this space.
For anyone who might be considering a jaunt down, Colmar is a great
base for
photgraphy from outside and, during ODAX '01, the local Gendarmerie
were
just about the friendliest we encountered (thanks to regular visits by
Swiss
photographers I'm led to believe)!
Russian Military Pilots To Visit French Airbase in 2006
Pilots of the Lipetsk air center and the Normandy-Niemen regiment will
make
an official visit to France's Colmar airbase in 2006, Russian Air Force
Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Mikhailov said on Monday.
"Joint flights are to take place during the visit. The delegation,
which
will be led by Lipetsk airbase commander Major General Alexander
Kharchevsky, comprises over 60 people, including Russian veterans of
the
Normandy-Niemen regiment and officers who serve in this regiment today.
Russian pilots will fly to France on four Su-27 planes and an Il-76
military-transport plane," Mikhailov told Interfax-Military News
Agency.
A delegation of French veterans of the Normandy-Niemen regiment will
attend
the opening of a memorial at the 7th Central Clinical Air Force
Hospital in
Moscow on Friday. The memorial is devoted to pilots of the
Normandy-Niemen
regiment, Mikhailov said.
He recalled that a delegation of the French Normandy-Niemen regiment
visited
the 18th Guards Vitebsk-based regiment, also known as the Russian
Normandy-Niemen regiment, in spring this year. Senior Lieutenant Marcel
Lefevre, a French citizen and a Hero of the Soviet Union, is put on the
personnel list of the Russian regiment for eternity. The regiment's
best
pilot gets the right to make a flight in Lefevre's honor monthly.
French Ambassador to Russia Jean Cadet gave Russian military pilots
Major
General Alexander Kharchevsky and Colonel Anatoly Fetisov the French
order
For Merits late last week. According to the ambassador, the two pilots
made
a personal contribution to the development of relations between the two
countries.
Source: Interfax-AVN (21st November, 2005)
--"
This could be a very good reason to visit the Alsace region next year.