Gliding the Polar Vortex – The Perlan II
Photos by John Freedman and Ken Kula The Windward Performance Perlan II is a one-of-a-kind high altitude glider. Designed to fly closer to the edge of space than any other crewed aircraft, record breaking...
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2022… Edwards AFB Then and Now
Edwards Air Force Base, the birth place of where it all began for so many, including myself. After a 12 year hiatus, Edwards opened it’s doors to the general public once again. This was...
Fifty Warbird Photos From the 2022 AirVenture Show
Here are 50 photos of warbird aircraft at the 2022 EAA AirVenture event at Oshkosh, Wisconsin’s Wittman Regional Airport. You can hover over each thumbnail for the type of aircraft, and click the...
Atlantic City Airshow 2022
For each of nineteen years, more than 500,000 spectators have been drawn to the midweek beachfront Atlantic City Airshow. This year’s show took place on Wednesday, August 24 and was “A Salute to Those...
“Back in Black” – August 2022 Saw the Return of Exercise Pitch Black
“Back in Black” August 2022 saw the return of Exercise Pitch Black to the skies of the Northern Territory, Australia, after a four-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The biannual exercise involved seventeen...
Jones Beach State Park – Bethpage Air Show 2022
For sixteen years, the Jones Beach, NY Bethpage Air Show has dared the elements. This year, heavy dense fog rolled in on the beach, canceling the Friday practise show. Conditions for Saturday were...
The 42nd Annual Simsbury Fly-In (and Car Show and Food Truck Festival, too)
Photos by Scott Zeno and Ken Kula The 42nd Annual Simsbury Fly-In (and Car Show and Food Truck Festival, too) was held on Sunday, September 25, 2022. The airport Is operated as a 501(c)(3)...
THE 2022 MILWAUKEE AIR AND WATER SHOW
Back after a Covid induced break, my hometown welcomed the Milwaukee Air and Water show back to Downtown Milwaukee. This 2-day event held on July 23rd and 24th was once again held at Bradford...
Joint Base Andrews 2022 Air & Space Expo
After two years of Covid-19 lock-downs, the USAF Academy Wings of Blue and US Army Golden Knights parachute teams were back in the sky over JB Andrews, MD. Jumping from 12,000 feet and unfurling...
March Field Air Museum, Riverside, CA
First things first: If you are going to be in the Los Angeles area, make it a point to visit this museum. It’s really something quite special. Equally important are getting there and the...
Joint Base Andrews Air and Space Expo 2022
Joint Base Andrews hosted their first air show since 2019 on September 17th and 18th, the 18th being the 75th Birthday of the United States Air Force. Among us, serious air show fans, it...
AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022
AirVenture 2022 is now history, Wittman Regional Airport is back to its typical laidback traffic flow, and once again records were broken. AirVenture 2022 did not disappoint in both aircraft attractions and in the...
2022 Thunder over Dover Air Show
The weather for the weekend at Dover was unusually hot with bright sunny skies and cool breezes. The air show turned out to be just the same- hot action with cool acts in high...
Rapid Pacific 2022 Stops at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan
Masaki Komatsu caught part of the record-setting Rapid Pacific 2022 deployment of German Air Force fighters, tankers and transports as they left the Hyakuri Air Base in Japan, bound for Singapore. The entire group...
