27-07-2011 IN MEMORIAM :

27-07-2011
ANUNAL REUNION 2011
Let us remember, in the last minute, because saturation of the " Place du Cinquantenaire " by a
European trade union demonstration we were forced to postpone the date of our meeting for a
week. It was a real challenge, but everyone answering the phone and it was finally done without
much difficulty. Except that this postponement has unfortunately prevented members Serge
MARTIN (Cadet), Jacques MELCHIOR (Melkiki) and Danny CABOOTER (CAB), to confirm their
participation for reasons of personal obligation.
So a nice day was waiting for us and, as usual, a great atmosphere of reunion
and again we found our commitment to an annual meeting being respected
Photo of the group as well as in appendix most of the photos taken during this day by Moes & Tonio.
 IN MEMORIAM : Let us remember, the death of our friend and
member Roger KÖLLER on 06-February-2011.
Roger was born in Verviers September 23, 1933
joined the Air Force 01-March-53. He enlisted the
127th promotion on 08-Feb-55. and after
graduation he joined the 350th, 11th, 349th, 7th
and 8th Squadron. He flew SV4bis, T6, Meteor IV, Meteor VII,
Meteor VIII, Hunter IV, Hunter VI, CF100, F84G, SF260-M and Fouga. We will remember him.
20 mai 2011
Page 1
20 mai 2011
Page 2
20 mai 2011
Page 3
20 mai 2011
Page 4
20 mai 2011
Page 5
PHOTOS..Like last year, it is possible to cherish the reunion by means of these photos) in color.
Size 11x17 price of € 0.25 per photo. If the order exceeds 10 photos, we ask you € 0.15 per photo;
€ 2.95 more for shipping. In this case the printer will send the photos directly.
For orders, we ask you to pay the amount on the account:
732 – 0147720 – 40 or IBAN : BE02 7320 1477 2040 EUR
SWOB – Abstraat,153 – 3090 Overijse
20 mai 2011
Page 6
In communication, you put the picture Nr. x Number of copies. Example "002, 015, 031x2, 036"
The photo numbers are the last three digits above the photo. You can order them until the end of
September. After that, we group the orders together and will print to avoid shipping costs. Then
we will send them by mail.
For internet users, you can go to this address to copy the photos:
http://www.quodbach.be/swob/banquet2011/index.html
MEMBERSHIP 2011 :
We dug up one of our former members, Louis (Houba) HOUBAILLE. He was a
member of the 129th promotion. He was at the 25th, 22nd, 26th, Towflight Sylt
and 7th Squadron.
We are currently with 94 active members 6 were out of time with their
contribution.
Here these 6 late members of contribution.
GUEUNING Charles
LAPORTE Théophile
VAN DE GRAAF Arie
JACOBS Raoul
MULS Tony
VANDERWAEREN Johny
Can we kindly request the latecomers to regularize their contribution 2011 as soon as possible?
Allow us to remember that
For the effective members in 2010, the amount of this contribution is 10 €.
For the others, the amount of the contribution will be doubled. thus of 20 .
Be so kind to pay on the following Account: 732-0147720-40
or IBAN : BE02 7320 1477 2040 EUR of S.W.O.B., mentioning «Membership 2011».
AVIATION HUMOR
20 mai 2011
Page 7
July 8, 2011
The unusual news of the week |
Oversight or deliberate ? A man has forgotten his wife along a country road
after a pause pipi performed at 3am. The deserted wife found herself alone,
barefoot and without a mobile phone. She headed for the village and knocked
on the door of the first house to call her husband. The man, distracted or
tired, his wife came back 2:30 later.
France will receive the first A400M, in December 2012
A Belgian military pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Tanguy Flamant,
join the test program of the new European transport aircraft
Airbus A400M, a device called now called "Grizzly"
This officer, pilot C-130 "Hercules" in 1996 and has since
participated in numerous military operations abroad, join
Toulouse (southwestern France) in early September to attend
two years of testing A400M, sources said the agency Belga. Lt.
Col. Flamant is also a test pilot, a qualification he obtained in
2005 at the School of Aircrew Testing and Receiving (EPNER )
Istres (southern France). Belgium had, like other countries
A400M customer, the possibility of designating a test pilot to
participate in the development of new aircraft, including three
copies fly since the end of last year.
Six of the seven major customers of the
military transport aircraft Airbus A400M including Belgium - Wednesday signed a
framework agreement on support to
service the fleet of these aircraft when
they enter service, announced the French
Ministry of Defense.
The agreement, a "Memorandum of
Understanding" (MoU) provides for the
establishment of a "common core" for all
countries and partners to manage all the
configuration changes made on the
aircraft and possibly ( parts), spare, said
French Defense Minister, Gerard Longuet
said in a statement. The agreement was
signed by France, Germany, Spain, the
United Kingdom and Belgium (on behalf
also of Luxembourg) was held
Wednesday noon at the 49th Paris Air
Show. The agreement was signed on behalf of Belgium by the Head
of Strategy for Staff of Defence, Lieutenant-General Guido Andries,
said the Ministry of Defence. The seventh customer for the A400M,
Turkey should ratify this agreement in the coming weeks, according
to Longuet.
In Belgium, the first of seven A400M ordered in 2003 to succeed the
C-130 "Hercules" aging will not be delivered until 2020.
20 mai 2011
Page 8