Flight Training the Coast Guard Way For its’ core missions, the Coast Guard operates five types of airframes: the EADS/Eurocopter MH-65B/C Dolphin and Sikorsky HH-60J/T Jayhawk helicopters, plus the FalconJet HU-25A/B/C/D Guardian, the new EADS/CASA HC-144A Ocean Sentry, and the Lockheed Martin C-130 H and J model Hercules.  The C-130 community flight trains at Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Clearwater, Florida.  Training on the other four aircraft types is performed ... Read More

On July 21 Photorecon was on hand @  Nellis, AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada  for the RED FLAG 10-4 exercise. The USAF allowed us and several other photographers to attend an exciting opportunity to witness and  cover the launch and recovery of the aircraft participating in the exercise from in between the two main runways. At a blistering 117 degrees before noon, units representing  USAF, USMC, USN, RSAF(Singapore) ,RSAF(Saudi Arabia) ,and PAF(Pakistan) "their first ... Read More

The Royal Saudi Air Force  attended Red Flag 10-4 with  the F-15. The Saudi version is called the F-15S  is a variant of the F-15E supplied to the Royal Saudi Air Force in the mid to late 1990s. Saudi Arabia had previously wanted the F-15F, a proposed single-seat Strike Eagle. Saudi Arabia sought to order 24 F-15Fs, but was blocked by U.S. Congress. The F-15S is almost identical to the ... Read More

Members of the Pakistan Air Force arrived at Nellis Air Force Base July 16 to participate in Red Flag 10-4.  The U.S. Air Force is hosting approximately 100 Pakistan Air Force pilots, maintainers and support personnel at the world's premier large force employment and integration exercise July 17-31. This is the Pakistan Air Force's first time participating in Red Flag. Also participating will be fighter pilots ... Read More

On Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, the world's only flyable Boeing B-29 Superfortress returned to the skies for the first time since 2006. The B-29 FIFI is the Queen of the Commemorative Air Force Fleet. Film by Hangar Workshop Productions, Gerald Oliver ... Read More

Upstate New York is an area that has miserable winters, lakes, mountains, poor farmers, vineyards, wineries, and the greatest airshow on turf.   The greatest airshow on turf happens each summer in Geneseo, New York which is a small college town south of Rochester.   It’s the home of the 1941 Historical Air Group and a museum which has the Memphis Belle (OK, USAF Museum, it’s the “Movie Memphis Belle”, but ... Read More

Chino’s Planes of Fame Museum host Aviation Photographer Paul Bowen On Saturday, July 17, 80 aviation photographers, pilots and enthusiasts and I were fortunate to hear legionary aviation photographer Paul Bowen speak at Chino Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California (www.planesoffame.org.) Like many of us, I have a deep passion for aviation, especially military aviation.  I have been shooting aviation pictures since I was a young boy, although seriously ... Read More

Air shows and other flying events are pretty much the same.  No matter where you go, air shows are similar.  A few locals flying, a military jet, some over priced food and if you are lucky, one or two professional acrobatic acts.  The Reno Air Races are like nothing else on this planet or any other. Since 1964, every September the Skies just north of Reno Nevada are transformed into ... Read More

On July 24th and 25th Photorecon was fortunate enough to have its first photocall at NAS Fallon.  NAS Fallon is the home of the Navel Strike Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) and the Fighter Weapons School (Topgun).   Photographers from Photorecon, Aviation Photographers of Southern California (APSOCAL), and Arizona Aviation Photographers (AzAP) made the trek to NAS Fallon, located approximately 60 miles east of Reno, Nevada. On day 1 at 0830 we ... Read More

Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential aircraft. VC-121 Columbine II Air Force One. The presidential call sign was established for security purposes during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The change stemmed from a 1953 incident where an Eastern Airlines  commercial flight (8610) had the same call sign as a flight the president was on (Air Force 8610). The aircraft accidentally entered the same airspace, and after the incident the unique call ... Read More

Why the F-35 is taking so long to develop The answer is the “Turbo-Entabulator” I laugh my freakin' @$$ off!! ... Read More

On Saturday, July 3rd, Classic Rotor’s Rare and Vintage Rotorcraft Museum in Ramona, CA was chosen as a venue site for the 27th annual Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association Conference in San Diego.  The six day conference offered a variety of activities at various venues for its members.  For more information, please go to the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association website www.vhpa.org. Classic Rotors was founded by Mark DiCiero in 1992 and ... Read More