(Times of Israel) Judah Ari Gross - Israeli pilots took to the skies over the southern U.S. over the past two weeks, flying alongside their American counterparts during exercises with three Israel Air Force C-130 Hercules airplanes involved in low-level flying scenarios, difficult take-offs and landings, paratrooper drops and cargo dumps. This is the third year in a row that Israel has participated in the exercise at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Mississippi. "We had a full day of flying in West Virginia, for practicing in the mountains," said Brig.-Gen. (res.) Eden. "For us, flying in mountains that are 5,000 or 6,000 feet high, it's something that we don't have on a daily basis back home. Landing in a short field between the mountains at high elevation, this is not something that we have in Israel, but this is something that we need to know."
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