The Air Force suspended its aircraft
festival
He had been as "open day" of the Air Force had in the past three Escalation megafestival, with a record of 800 thousand people in 2010, to the point that accompany the international nature had taken it renamed "Argentina Morón Air Fest."
But this year, surprisingly, the Air Force canceled these days looking every year to coincide with the May 1, when we commemorate his baptism of fire in the Falklands War.
suspension had no official explanation. In the aviation environment do not stop to close for budgetary reasons because the festival was not so expensive and in any case, the flights of aircraft in the force computed as hours of training, they say. Other sources claim that the head force, Brigadier General Norman Constantine, justified in front of several brigadier who was "an election year," referring to the desirability of maintaining a low profile.
In this sense, a competing explanation recalled that the aerodrome of Morón, which hosted the Air Fest, went to Spain's plane with his siblings Julia nearly a ton load of cocaine. Also, are children of the deceased Julian former Air Force chief of the administration of former President Carlos Menem, Brigadier General Joseph Julius.
The case erupted in mid-January, and when the Air Force had started the year with complications for the theft of 20 000 munitions base of El Palomar. Costantino
decided to take the commemoration of the baptism of fire on Sunday at the air base in Comodoro Rivadavia. Attended by the Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli, in photo uncomfortable with the opposition governor Mario Das Neves in the middle of the election mess in Chubut.
memorial will be a classic act, to fly fighter jets four A4-AR which are in a training exercise in the area.
this year were to be among the attractions of the Air Fest again Brazil acrobatic squadron "Steam Train" for the first time its similar to Chile, "Falcon" and acrobatic squad of paratroopers from the U.S. Army
In 2010, in honor of the bicentennial, the festival was inaugurated with a passenger aircraft tracer that drew the blue and white flag on the Obelisk.
"The Air Fest had become the largest festival in South America and is a great disappointment," a source told Clarín aviation environment.
baptism of fire which evoke in Comodoro Rivadavia recalls on 1 May 1982, the Air Force ordered 56 missions from attacks carried out by fighter jets Pucara, Skyhawk, Mirage III and Dagger M-5, and bombers Canberra. During
the conflict in the South Atlantic were killed 36 officers, 14 noncommissioned officers and 5 soldiers of the Air Force and lost dozens of warplanes.
source: www.clarin.com
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