Babytiger Story in english

TIGERBABY - The Mascot of the 321 Tigers

Tigerbaby entered the world of the 321 Tigers in 1994. Since then it has been on daily duty in the Squadron.
From time to time it gets the strong drive to go crosscountry. Equipped with a Travelorder it then visits squadrons around the globe and requests a flight with them in their aircraft on a representative mission.
Of course does it have his own log-book. A glance at this tells us that flights on B1-Bs and F-117s are as usual as on ECR TORNADOs.

For details about the missions have a look into the FLYING LOGBOOK below!

Tigerbaby's first flight... (click for image enlargement)

Tigerbaby in the Guinness Book of Records
	Tigerbaby tries and gets the "Record". Have a look at the long table with all the missions accounting for the record. The proof of the Guinness record (click for enlargement). Sorry, german language only.

Tigerbaby's Flying Logbook

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FLYING LOGBOOK

F-117 cockpit intro	FULCRUM sim intro	searching new perspectives

Tigerbaby's relation to monsters
Tigerbaby and the kidnapping... more

Tigerbaby in the land of the rising sun (central european view).

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.

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One of Tigerbaby's many adventures
	Tiger-Baby survived jungle training in Malaysia ... more here...

Tiger Baby back on flying status 2007

02.02.2007

Tigerbaby im Cockpit für recurrency flug

After a much too long ground time (it visited his relatives in the djungles) Tigerbaby continued a recurrency programme.
DOM gave him his re-qualification yesterday, so he was ready for Basic Fighter Maneuvers today.

Already during the briefing Tigerbaby was nervous, aggressive and asked for Gs - he definitely needs to fly more often to calm down!

At the end he became current again on a short field landing with full thrust reverse - however he should have tightened his seatbelts a little bit better! Lesson learned.

Tiger Baby accompanies Red Bull Air Race

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!


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
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).

12-04-2008 - Tigerbaby accompanies rollout and first flight

On the 12-04-2008 Tiger Baby participated at Tannheim landing strip in the rollout of the brandnew high performance acro airplane "Extra 330" which is owned by Matthias Dolderer.
Here he was allowed (and invited) to take place in the cockpit of this 580 HP "power plant" during its first flying display. +8 and -4,5 were the max and min g loads which he had to stand. But, no problem for our well trained mascot. Just coming back from the exercise "GOOD HOPE" at Overberg AFB in South Africa, he has had a lot of sleep and feels extremely confident to tackle new challenges.
Matthias will participate in international championships with his airplane, which is by the way cleared for g loads between +10 and -10.

After this exciting event, Matt Hall an australian military F-18 Pilot and privat acro specialist takes over Tigerbaby and will bring it to "Down Under".

Spring 2008: Tiger Baby "Down Under"

View from an F-18 down onto the left-lane traffic

On 12-04-2008, after Tigerbaby accompanied Matthias' "Extra 330" rollout and firstflight in Tannheim, near Memmingen, Bavaria, it was handed over to Matt Hall, an Aussi Airforce F-18 Pilot and acro specialist who took it with him to "Down Under".

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.

to Tigerbaby's former adventures

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