TIGERBABY - The Mascot of the 321 Tigers
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Tigerbaby entered the world of the 321 Tigers in 1994. Since
then it has been on daily duty in the Squadron. |
For details about the missions have a look into the FLYING LOGBOOK below! |
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Tigerbaby's first flight... (click for image enlargement) |
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The proof of the Guinness record (click for enlargement). Sorry, german language only. |
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Tigerbaby's Flying Logbook
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Tigerbaby's relation to monsters |
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Tigerbaby and the kidnapping...
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| Tigerbaby in the land of the rising sun (central european view). |
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Read the story of the ferry flight of 3 Grob G120A-I to Israel. Further: Tigerbaby flys with the Desert Ducks to Kuwait. From there to the USA and Canada. |
| One of Tigerbaby's many adventures |
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Tiger-Baby survived jungle training in Malaysia ... more here... |
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Tiger Baby accompanies Red Bull Air Race |
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From 25-03-07 to 16-07-07 Tiger Baby accompanied the complete Red Bull Air Race World Tour 2007. The Tour started in Abu Dhabi, and went on via Rio De Janeiro, Monument Valley, Istanbul, Interlaken, London Budapest to Porto! Tigerbaby's dad "Ecki" Eckhardt (Pilot Manager Red Bull Air Race) even managed to organize a passenger flight for Baby through the race track at Interlaken, which has never been granted before to anybody! Also Baby was allowed to enjoy an airdrop out of 100 meters from the Bo-105 helicopter. He landed unharmed. On 25-08-2007, Baby had a very special flight. With a YAK-55 owed by Uli "The Copra" Dembinsky, Baby flew 222 Loops in 1hr 15min in Oppenheim, which was a new Guinness Book World Record! Currently Baby has 730 flying hours and 525 Lndings on more than 50 different A/C types and helicopters! Picture: Tiger Baby not scarred at all prior his airdrop from 100 meters altitude out of the Bo105! |
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| Signatures of the Red Bull AIr Race Pilots 2007 in the flightlog! | right before jumping out... | Baby sitting on the MX-2! He´s the one and only passenger that ever flew through the Race Track! | Baby on top of the MX-2, the Red Bull Air Race Track plane of Breitling in Interlaken 2007 |
14-11-2007 Tigerbaby flies the 'Trall' to Deci |
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Tigerbaby participated in this years DECI part II exercise in Sardinia. It was his pleasure prior the transition to take over the controls of the big bird and take it down to Decimomannu Airbase in Italy. On the pictures below you can see our mascot during this easy task. After the flight Baby ordered himself a big sniff for his excellent landing (others say it was the excellent Sarde Red Wine). |
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Spring 2008: Tiger Baby "Down Under"
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Here, Tigerbaby encounters one exciting flying adventure after the other. Of course does he accompany Matt and his squadron mates on many diversative F-18 missions over sea and over land. He enjoys it a lot during the short combat free times to look downwards (actually upwards) onto the left-lane traffic ;-)) Breathtaking also his flights on exotic and spectacular aircraft types like the "Tigermoth" and the "Mustang". The landscape is a hit but a little bit misses Baby the snow covered mountain tops and dark green meadows and forrests of a "springtime Bavaria". After those truely exhausting days (man, what a slang) Tigerbaby enjoys the friendship and care of Matt's little boy. |
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Tiger Baby is back from Overberg, South Afrika, where he participated together with the FBW 32 jets in the exercise 'Good Hope 2008'. HARRY our designated top-tiger-tamer documented the whole journey and the exercise in a web blog which he had set up prior departure. Read this most interresting story (in German language only) and please, if you understand a bit, add a comment to it! |
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| Tigerbaby at ELITE 2008 | ||
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Many of you will ask yourself the question: "what the heck is a high value asset like our Tiger Baby doing during a high value exercise like ELITE?". Here is the solution: Tiger Baby was enroute with a secret mission which was so secret that we were not able to talk earlier about it. Although Baby flew already on such illustrious airplanes like F-117 or B1-B, there was one very special mission missing so far in Baby's history: a flight on the proudest bird of military aviation (German NAVY view of things), the Breguet 1150 Atlantique SIGINT. Together with all the forces of the electronic reconnaissance and early warning, with the Lechfeld ECR Tornados and the CRC (controlling and reporting center) Messtetten, during exercise ELITE, it produced an early warning and air situation picture for the attacking forces. |
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Tigerbaby is trying to enter the BR1150 Atlantic via the retrolauncher for sonobojs |
Tigerbaby entering the BR1150 Atlantic |
Tigerbabys tail getting wedged in |
After a thorough saftety check which was finished with status U5 (is allowed to eat and drink coffee on board and use the toilet) it finally became reality. For this operational mission on date 09-07-2008 during exercise ELITE an official company request could be turned in. The "German Navy Flooding Commando" allowed the participation in the mission on hightest level possible. After some minor confusion because of the funny access to the airplane at the back, Baby started right away to manage routine tasks on board. |
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Employee of the month |
Tigerbaby has overfilled due to the extraordinary good flight meal on board of the BR1150 and is about to throw up |
Tigerbaby is taking over control of the mission |
After a superb lunch on board Baby piloted German Force's largest fighter airplane (haha) back to Lechfeld. Some approach patterns later Baby was able to recognize and identify his squadron from the air and landed after 5:10 hours of flying time safely at its home station. After filling in the neccessary data in its personal flying logbook Baby posed together with the crew for a final picture. This flight constitutes - after Baby's entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2001 - an absolute highlight in his life. |
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Tigerbaby sitting at the turret in the very front of the BR1150 while flying over „it’s“ squadron |
Tigerbaby sitting at the turret in the very front of the BR1150 while aproaching the final of Lechfeld airbase |
Mission crew of the BR1150 Atlantic together with Tigerbaby |
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