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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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Air Transports / Airshow / Blue Angels / demo teams / Marines / military / Transports

22 Jun, 2019

‘Bert’s Retirement Surprises Many, What’ll Replace the Iconic Lockheed Transport?

The U.S. Navy’s ‘Blue Angels’ caught nearly everyone by surprise when they announced on May 22nd of this year that their U.S. Marine Corps Lockheed Martin KC-130T Hercules (BuNo 164763 / CN 5258) affectionately...

Airshow / featured / friends / Photography and Spotting / Reno

22 Jun, 2019

Shock and Awe

(All photos via Joe Kates) Shock and Awe!!!!!!!!! I am in total shock having received the news of the loss of my good friend and “brother” Mark Hrutkay. At the same time I...

Air Transports / Airbus / Airliners / Helicopters / military / Transports

15 Jun, 2019

Airbus Celebrates Their 50th Year in Business; Delivers Their 12,000th Aircraft

Air Tahiti Nui A-340-300 At the big Paris Air Show of 1969, a collaboration between two countries with rich aviation histories signaled the beginning of what is known today as the Airbus company. Fifty...

Airliners / Aviation History / Special Aviation Events / Transports

8 Jun, 2019

Northrop Grumman’s Final Mission in the BAC 1-11

Northrop Grumman retired their last British Aerospace Corporation (BAC) One-Eleven (1-11) Testbed as well as the last flying example of a BAC 1-11 in the world on May 6th, 2019. Takeoff on Runway 28...

Aerobatics / Airshow / fighters / Helicopters / U.S. Marines

1 Jun, 2019

MCAS Yuma Airshow Starts the 2019 Air Show Season With a Bang

March 8th and 9th, 2019 Marine Corps Air Station Yuma kicked off the west coast air show season March 8th with a two-day air show event. Since 1962, the Yuma Airshow has been a...

EAA / friends / published / Reno

25 May, 2019

Mark Hrutkay Has Gone West

We have lost one of our own here at Photorecon.net (and ClassicWarbirds.net and CivilAviationWorld.com and Motorecon.net). Editor, writer and photographer Mark Hrutkay passed away unexpectedly on May 10, 2019 at age 59. Although many...

Air Force Reserve / military / NOAA / Special Aviation Events / Transports

25 May, 2019

How Aviation Helps Us to Prepare For the “Big One”

A week-long travelling road show (well, actually a travelling air show) began a five-state presentation at Rhode Island’s Quonset State Airport on May 6th, 2019. The event took a multi-faceted approach to hurricane preparedness;...

2017 Sail Boston / Aircraft carrier / Airshow / Boeing / demo teams / fighters / U.S. Navy

18 May, 2019

Super Hornets!

This is Part 3 of a multi-part history of the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18 Hornet/Super Hornet… more to come next month! The US Navy then looked for an actual successor to the aged Grumman F-14 Tomcat,...

Aerobatics / Airshow / Blue Angels / fighters / Helicopters / military / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy / warbirds

11 May, 2019

Naval Air Facility El Centro 2019 Air Show

One of the first air shows of the year is held at Naval Air Facility El Centro in the Imperial Valley. In addition, NAF El Centro has long been the winter training home of...

Airshow / bombers / Civil aviation / demo teams / military / U.S. Air Force / USAF Thunderbirds / warbirds

11 May, 2019

Wings Over Wayne 2019

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base hosted their bi-annual airshow, Wings Over Wayne (WOW) on April 27th and 28th. The 4th Fighter Wing and the 916th Air Refueling Wing were the hosts and the show...