It may have been over in under 30 minutes, but the slick aerial manoeuvres by the F-15SG and F-16C fighter jets and the Apache attack helicopters over the National Day weekend took months of training and planning to execute.
A team of six fighter pilots and two weapon system officers for the planes and six pilots for the Apaches were involved, along with over 200 Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) personnel that ran ground operations, provided logistics support and managed traffic.
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