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1 May, 2017

Looking Over The Edge

by Keith “Rosey” Rosenkranz Aviators who’ve been to “the edge of the envelope” definitely know the name “Chuck Yeager.” On Oct. 14, 1947, the legendary test pilot became the first person to fly supersonic,...
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30 Oct, 2016

T-BIRD BOMB BURST

BY GEN. MERRILL A. (TONY) MCPEAK , Del Rio could be the movie set of a West Texas border town. It’s windy, and the weather tends toward seasonal extremes. A large U.S. Air Force...
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14 Mar, 2016

KILLING TRAINS

By Ed Rasimus (Excerpted from When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam) Our target for the day was a bridge at Bac Ninh on the northeast railroad. Ingress could be along the...
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26 Oct, 2015

FAREWELL FLIGHT

FAREWELL FLIGHT by Capt. William R. Tymczyszyn I hoped we’d fly together again someday, but I didn’t know just when. Then a sense of something special came over me, as I released the brakes...
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17 Aug, 2015

GORILLA – THE FIRST JET-POWERED PRIMATE

by William B.Scott At the dawn of the jet age, a small group of test pilots, engineers, technicians and maintenance troops secretly evaluated the Bell XP-59A, America’s first military jet, at the remote Materiel...
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16 Jun, 2015

B-52 STRIKE ON IRAQ

January 16, 1991; 1900 Hours: “We’re going!” That simple announcement from “Moondog,” our radar navigator, triggered a flurry of activity. We were going to war with Iraq. Jamming last-minute gear into our helmet bags...
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23 Mar, 2015

THE FIRST NIGHTHAWKS

by William B. Scott Depicting a symbolic nighthawk in flight and worn on a man’s suit lapel, it’s just a small, innocuous silver pin. But a red ruby in the hawk’s eye silently...

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Airshow / military / Special Aviation Events / Special Color Schemes / warbirds

9 Feb, 2019

Hyakuri Air Base Open Day and F-4 Phantom Showcase

An air base open day was held on 2 December 2018 at Hyakuri Air Base (RJAH) in Ibaraki Prefecture, marking the start of the transition of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Koku Jeitai...

Air Transports / Airliners / Airshow / Aviation History / EAA / General Aviation / Photography and Spotting

9 Feb, 2019

My 2018 Memories

Aviation is alive and well, as I witnessed during my travels in 2018. Innovations are still forthcoming, history is still revered, and air shows and other presentations still draw large crowds. I traveled outside...

Airshow / Blue Angels / U.S. Coast Guard

2 Feb, 2019

Fleetweek 2018

Scott and Steve Mantegani collaborated on this article. San Francisco’s Fleetweek 2018 festivities started on the week of October 1. The ships came in ahead of the show weekend for various emergency preparedness training...

air racing / Airshow / Reno

2 Feb, 2019

A Look Back at the 2018 National Championship Air Races in Reno

Here’s a small group of photos from Tim Adams… who attended the 2018 Reno Air Races last year. The 2019 edition will be held during the second week of September, and promises to present...

Australia / fighters / military / Special Aviation Events

26 Jan, 2019

F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Arrives in Australia

All imagery © Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence (unless otherwise credited) On 10 December 2018, a new technological era dawned as Air Force celebrated the delivery of its first F-35A Joint Strike Fighter...

NASA / Rocket Launch

26 Jan, 2019

Wallops Island, Virginia – Cygnus Launch Event

Recently, I was intrigued by an offer on my social media feed that I could not refuse. It read, have you ever attended a night launch before? Now’s your chance! Today is the last...

fighters / military / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

18 Jan, 2019

McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18A and B Hornet

This is Part 1 of a multi-part history of the F/A-18 Hornet by Peter Boschert Originally, this model was developed for the USAF, the roots of the F / A-18 lie in a study...

Aviation History / U.S. Army

18 Jan, 2019

The Missiles of Sandy Hook, Part 3

The Nike Missiles: The early Nike-Ajax missiles came to Sandy Hook in 1954. They were a 2-stage missile that used a highly flammable and explosive fuel mixture of: JP-4 jet fuel; an HNO3...

air force / Airshow / Base Visits / military / Special Aviation Events / Special Color Schemes

12 Jan, 2019

JASDF Hyakuri Air Festival 2018

The culmination of my ten day photographic bender in Japan was the JASDF Hyakuri Air Festival, held on Sunday December 2nd, 2018. Hyakuri Air Base is approximately 90 minutes driving time north of Tokyo....

Airshow / Base Visits / Yearly Review

12 Jan, 2019

Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you? I think so.

With a nod to the Foo Fighters, my look back at 2018 saw many great new opportunities open up for me as a member of the Photorecon.net family. I contributed seven articles that...