Hello and welcome to NATO Days,
and the Czech Air Force show here in the Czech Republic.
Join me today as I look around this amazing show
which is the largest of its kind in central Europe.
We’re here in front of the C-130.
I’m Chris Pike. We flew over from the US. I’m a pilot.
I’m a co-pilot on the C-130 here, and I enjoy flying.
Chris, what’s the role of the C-130?
We’re a transport aircraft. We transport cargo and people and we drop air-drop,
which means we drop cargo and people out of the back of the plane as well.
What we’re about to see now is a seven plane display, the Hawk
planes of the Red Arrows. Just to make me feel a bit at home!
I’m here with Captain Aaron Schoett. Thanks for talking to us, Aaron.
Aaron’s going to give us a quick walk-round, talk-round.
The F-15 C is the world’s predominant air-superiority fighter.
It was first flown over forty years ago.
It currently has an unbeaten air-to-air record of 104 kills to zero losses.
The aircraft actually, if you look on the side
right here, you can see two stars – MiG-29s,
when the aircraft, this very aircraft right here, Tail 86156 shot
down two MiG-29s on March 24th 1999 in Operation Allied Force.
So far then, you’ve just seen, we’ve just wandered down across to the right there
and we’ve had a look at some of the American aircraft, the F-15 for example.
We’ve also just wandered past and seen some amazing
attack helicopters that belong to the Czech Air Force.
What we’re going to do now is wander up and head towards the main arena.
Okay, just for a change in pace now
we’ve had a look at some of the F-15s etc etc.
Now the PC9M, certainly something I’ve never come across before, and certainly
very reminiscent of some of the things you are going to see in game.
We’ve got to spend a few moments just to appreciate this.
This is the AN-2 from the Estonian Air Force, and
it’s actually the largest single engine biplane.
Absolutely incredible, and I’m sure you’ll
appreciate it’s just quite a beautiful aircraft.
We’ve just come aboard the amazing AWACS aircraft
and I’m joined by Captain Titus Wong who is going to give
us a quick whistle-stop tour through this amazing vehicle.
As you can see we have crew members, part of the team.
Each console has a unique mission depending on
whether it's running surveillance operations
or whether it’s commanding and controlling fighter
aircraft, or if we ever just need to back each other up.
For example, one person can’t do the job all alone for a constant 24 hours,
so we have multiple people to back each other up in any situation.
Additionally we’ll be listening to several…
several people across the world in some cases,
but depending on what we need to do.
We’ve just witnessed there a demonstration
from the Eurofighter Typhoon from the Czech Air Force.
I’ll attempt to talk through it, but hopefully you’ll appreciate it.
You picked up the sound there, it was absolutely awesome to watch.
Join me now as we go on a quick helicopter tour around the local area.
Come on quick, let’s go!
Well, that’s it for another year at NATO Days in the Czech Republic Air Show.
Thank you so much for joining us
and I really hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Take care!