At 2009 edition of the Nato Tiger meet exercise there were over 30 different aircraft from at least 8 differents countries. The French team consisted of Mirage 2000 from both EC 01.012 (Cambrai) and ECEA 05.330 (Mont De Marsan), also from the southern base there were some Rafales, for both type there were really nice special colors. Also the Spanish team was huge, there were Mirage F1 from 142 Escuadrón (Albacete) and also EF-18M from ALA15 (Zaragoza), sadly without much of color. There were also Swiss F-18 from Fliegerstaffel 11 (Meiringen), German Tornados from both AG51 (Schleswig-Jagel) and JBG32 (Lechfeld), Gripen from both Czech Republic, actually from 211th Squadron of Caslav and Hungary from 59/1 Squadron of Kecskemet. Besides these fixed wing components at Kleine Brogel there were Belgian (18sq MRH from Beauvenchain), Czech (221st Squadron from Namest) and Italian (from 21st Group of Grazzanise) helos, like AB212ICO and Mil Mi 35. Finally there were plenty of MLU F-16, obviously from the local wing, the 10th Wing 31 Smaldeel, but also from the Orland's 338 Skvadron (Norway) and Volkel's 313 squadron (Netherlands). These units take part to the two weeks exercise flying over the North Sea and Belgium and France air space. Non operating from Kleine Brogle, but taking part to the Exercise there ware also the NATO 1st Squadron with his E-3B .

We entered at Kleine Brogel shortly after 8 oclock after a long night car drive from Italy. Once there we had an amazing access to both runway and the taxiway. We also had a close access to the touching point of the 05 runway from where we could get just perfect pictures of the tire's smoke. On that friday they flew 2 different mission, one in the morning and the other in the early afternoon, on each wave as said before there were around 30 aircraft, so a huge amount of afterburners. In between there were also some rehearsal for the Sanicole Airshow like the Netherland Demo, but also a great Tiger Formation passes and also some Week-End visitors like the Portoguese F-16. Already on base taking part to the week-end airshow there were the Red Bull Team with the B-25 Mitchell or the F4-U Corsair, but also the Patruille de Suisse with the F-5. Between the local F-16 there were also some from the 349th Sqd, which is not tightly a tiger squadron, but nevertheless they joint the party and flew some mission within the cats. So it was a very enjoyable sunshine day full of action and for that we have to thanks all the personnel from the Belgian Air Force for letting around two thousand spotters on the base.