If you see fighter jest flying over the Acropolis today, it is a multinational formation from air forces partaking in the Greek Air Force-led exercise INIOHOS 2017.
On Greek F-16 Block 50 and one F-4E, one Italian AMX fighter Bomber and one Israeli F-16 Block 30 will fly in formation over the Acropolis to mark the end of the exercise.
One more Greek F-16 will fly close in order to take pictures and film this memorable flight event.
The flight is scheduled for noon April 4, 2017. The exact time is expected after 12:00 o’ clock, probably between 12:30 and 12:40.
The aircraft will perform two flights over the Sacred Rock.
After the flight over the Acropolis, the five fighter jets will fly over the Euripus Strait, the narrow channel of water separating the Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea from Boeotia in mainland Greece.
The jets will complete their performance with low flights over the Rio-Antirio Bridge that connects north Peloponnese wit the mainland.
Last year, it was the f-16 of the Hellenic and the USA Air Force that flew over the Acropolis.
+++ first pictures form the flight over Athens. More material to be uploaded as soon as it will be released by the Hellenic Air Force.
Fighter jets roar over Athens at end of military exercise #Greece pic.twitter.com/mIMdigkBQb
— Derek Gatopoulos (@dgatopoulos) April 4, 2017
WATCH several VIDEOS from the flight over Athens here
“>This year the USAF crew stays on the ground and so does the crew from the Air Force of the United Arab Emirates, that took part in INIOHOS 2017. Apparently the Arab crew does not want a picture together with the Israeli Air Force.
INIOHOS 2017 runs from March 27 to April 6, fro the Andravida Air Base, in Peloponnese.
The Hellenic Air Force-led ‘complex exercise’ involves air forces from Israel, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Italy.
The exercise has been designed by the Greek Air Force General Staff and takes place within the FIR Athens.
The exercise gives the chance to air force crews to strengthen bonds between NATO allies and partners.
It is the third consecutive year the exercise has been held.
The thumbnail picture if from the flight in 2016.
