Aerines siopes

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A Greek TV serie with 98 episodes...
Some of them -quite rare- without aircraft but most with two to three minutes with air sequences or landing/taxiing action.

Step by step, a wide range of the Hellenic Air Force and Hellenic Army aircrafts and helicopters could be seen.

This topic will inventory them (serials, episodes of appearance) once I've completed te type list on IMPDB.

A view as no other one throughout the serie : Dassault Mirage 2000 EG readied for a long range mission. It's airframe 220 as seen in episode 10.

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To complete the IMPDB page (http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Aerines_siopes), here is a review of all the aircrafts seen all along this serie.

For the types seen the least, episodes of appearance are mentioned directly on IMPDB.

Episode 36 is probably the only movie/TV product displaying the North American T-2 Buckeye as a guest with a lot of airframes seen sometimes in close-up (tail codes spotted : 63 / 64 / 69 / 74 / 75 / 90).

On the other star planes, of the Dassault family, we can list :

Dassault Mirage 2000 BG
On the eight ordered by Greece, two are clearly visible :
* s/n 202 (here seen in Ep. 15)



* aircraft 204 (Ep. 22 - look at IMPDB); seen too in Ep. 5 and 96.

* in several episodes, 2000 BGs are on the apron ready to take off besides single seats. Or taxiing like this one seen in Ep. 23



Dassault Mirage F1 CG
End of the Mirage F1 career in Greece corresponds with that of the series. On the 40 operated by this country, 27 were still soldiered at that time. They are visible at least eight times in Ep. 23 / 26 / 34 / 35 / 37 / 69 and during a night landing in 95 (the shots used in episode 69 are seen again in Ep. 88).

Despite no s/n is clearly visible, it's interesting to watch some greek particularities : F1CG were not armed with the usual two Matra Magic II but were wired for four AIM-9Ps like this one :



But the real STAR of the series is the ...
Dassault Mirage 2000 EG/EGM
Greece ordered first 32 Mirage 2000EGs then 25 Mirage 2000-5 Mark 2 in 2000 (ten of them would be upgraded from operational EGs).
At least 14 of them could be identified. They are ... (episodes are given between brackets; in bolt, that of the picture) :

212 (26 / 61)



216 (88)

218 (57 / 94)



220 (7 / 10 / 26)
(look at the previous post)

222 (1 / 28 / 39 / 43)



224 (44)



226 (18 / 28 / 30 / 44 / 68)



228 (18)



230 (36 / 62 / 88)



232 (1 / 72 / 80 / 98)



234 (39 / 95)



236 (7 / 15 / 16 / 23 / 76)



240 (30 / 34 / 37 / 44 / 77)



242 (58 / 98)

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Please note that some episodes have notable action as summarized below :

* night flight (seen in Ep. 01 / 64 / 95);





* firing at the bomb range in Ep. 28 ;

* dogfights (with in the cockpit shots and/or HUD views) in episode 26 and 36 ;
For example :



* SAR action in Ep. 36 and 37



If most of the aviation scenes are on the ground ...





some in flight shots are spread along the seasons. Like in Ep. 35 :



Two or three times, cockpit shots display the start sequence with the "Christmas Tree" (Sorry ! I have no screeenshot).
They are the rare times you could see details with this spot on the Thales Serval Radar warning receiver (Ep. 68) :



As you can see on IMPDB, lots of action are inside the squadron barracks (which allows to see lots of art drawings with various aircrafts). But I failed to identify these two sights :

Ep. 69



Ep. 46 "the flying clog"



Any help is welcomed !