Every two years Black Sea Defence and Aerospace is organized on Baneasa International Airport in Bucharest, Romania. Aircraft displayed were Mi-8, Mi-17 and EC-135 from the Special Aviation Unit of the Internal Affairs Ministry, IAR-99, IAR-330 Puma SOCAT, C-27J Spartan of the Romanian Airforce, IAR-330 Puma Naval of the Romanian Navy, tanks, air defence units, 2 F-16 of the US Air Force.
Cockpit of C-27J Spartan '2704'
Mi-17-1VA '110' - Special Aviation Unit. VIP helicopter equiped for 11 passengers, 3 armchairs and a couch of 8 people. Two 460 liter extra fuel tanks (it's the same fuel tank like on the MiG-21)
Cockpit of Mi-17-1VA '110' of the Special Aviation Unit
IAR-330 Puma SOCAT '83'
EC-135 '297' - Special Aviation Unit
Mi-8T '716' - Special Aviation Unit - with bamby bucket. This is the oldest Mi-8 currently serving with the unit. Arrived in Romania in 1973 and now it has around 10 flight hours until the resourse will expire.
IAR-316B Alouette '49' slowly closing the zone where soldiers of the special forces will rappel to combat terrorists
Mi-8T '716' with soldier of the Romanian Gendarmerie Special Forces approaching the drop off zone
Quick rappel action
IAR-99 Soim (Hawk) '718' belonging to the Center of Flight Testing in Craiova. Tragicly later last year the a/c crash during take off claiming the life on cmdr. Aurelian Cojocaru (backseater). The frontseater, cmdr. Relu Ioana survived with major injuries.
Left cmd. Relu Ioana, right cmdr. Aurelian Cojocaru
More photos soon to a screen near you.
Black Sea Defence and Aerospace 2012
Black Sea Defence and Aerospace 2012
Game over, man!
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Re: Black Sea Defence and Aerospace 2012
very nice set.......
"It is generally inadvisable to eject over the area you just bombed"
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Re: Black Sea Defence and Aerospace 2012
Good to see an EC135 being thrown about!
Re: Black Sea Defence and Aerospace 2012
very interesting Puma cockpit images.