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NAF El Centro Photo Call

OPERATION FORCIBLE ENTRY

RED FLAG 14-3 MICRO MOVIE

Gregory "Wired" Colyer at the 2015 NAF El Centro Air Show

FIFI ON THE WEST COAST - FIRST STOP CAMARILLO

STEALTH IN MOTION

Sean D. Tucker 2015 Planes of Fame Air Show Footage

Wings of Freedom

New Contrails Section

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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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10 Feb, 2015

CROP-DUSTING IN IDAHO

By John Bigelow By early summer, 1959, my friend, Murray, an ex-F-86 fighter jock fresh from the Royal Canadian Air Force, and I, a furloughed Canadian C-46 copilot, were newly graduated crop-dusters. Murray had...
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26 Dec, 2014

Scrambled Eggs–Vietnam-Style

By Maj. Tony Geishauser (USA-Ret.) It started as just another routine day at the office. Of course, my office happened to be the cockpit of a U.S. Army UH-1 “Huey” helicopter flying over Vietnam....

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Air to air photography / Airshow / Formation Flying / military / Trainers / U.S. Navy / warbirds / World War II

25 Sep, 2016

Flying with the GEICO Skytypers

Since 2006, the GEICO Skytypers have been a crowd favorite performing at fifteen air show sites annually. The Long Island, NY based team has thrilled audiences with precise close-formation maneuvers in their six SNJ-2...

Airshow / Boeing / fighters / Formation Flying / military / museums / New England / Trainers / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Navy / warbirds / World War II

24 Sep, 2016

Owls Head Transportation Museum Presents Its 2016 Rally

Located on the north end of the Knox County/Rockland Maine airport, the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Wings and Wheels Spectacular, held on the first full weekend in August this year, featured aircraft designs...

Airshow / bombers / fighters / Liasion Aircraft / military / museums / Trainers / Transports / U.S. Army / warbirds / World War II

20 Sep, 2016

Reading Pennsylvania World War II Weekend 2016

For twenty-six years the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum located at the Reading, Pa Regional Airport has conducted its World War II Weekend. Consistently attracting a large audience to any venue constantly requires something new and...

Air National Guard / Airshow / demo teams / military / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Navy

14 Sep, 2016

Air Show ROCKS Fort Wayne Skies!!!

There’s just something so familiar and comforting about a hometown air show. I can’t really tell you if it’s the faces you already know or the ease of moving about the grounds. For me,...

Airliners / Boeing / Civil aviation / legends / museums

13 Sep, 2016

Boeing’s First Century

On July 15, 2016, the Boeing Company marked its 100th birthday. The aircraft manufacturer’s “Founders Day” event at Boeing Field, Seattle was the high point of a celebration that had been going on all...

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europe / Helicopters / military

9 Sep, 2016

An Air Show in Africa- or 5eme Salon International de l´Aeronautique et du Spatial

When I read about a planned Air Show in Morocco in April 2016, I searched the web about previous ones and it looked very promising. There was a small international participation on those shows,...

air force / Australia / Base Visits / Exercises / fighters / Marines / military / Royal Canadian Air Force / tanker ride / Transports / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Marines

7 Sep, 2016

Pitch Black 2016, Part 2 – Operations

Run over the first three weeks of August, Exercise Pitch Black 2016 ran a “Media Embed Program” for the benefit of local and international media organisations, during the exercise. PHOTORECON was privileged to be...

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air force / Base Visits / fighters / U.S. Air Force

27 Aug, 2016

74th Fighter Squadron “World Famous Flying Tigers”

74th Fighter Squadron A-10C Warthogs “World Famous Flying Tigers” Moody Air Force Base and Grand Bay Weapons Range, Georgia 18 August 2016 I travelled to Moody AFB on 18 August 2016, for a visit...

Airshow / EAA / Fly-In / museums / oshkosh / warbirds

22 Aug, 2016

Rockford 1966 to AirVenture 2016

A few months short of age seven, I knew I loved aviation. I’d flown with dad many times and had seen my first P-51D (N51KB… Then N988C) fly. As best I can remember, I’d...

friends / legends / POF

21 Aug, 2016

Passing of a legend: Ed Maloney

Sad news in the aviation world tonight, Planes of Fame Air Museum Founder Mr. Ed Maloney passed away Friday at age 88. Mr. Maloney was a giant in the air museum community and a...