A Motorsport events like no other. Five days of racing action. Six classes of aircraft and speeds exceeding 500 mph. It all adds up to the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada. Each race is just one thrilling episode of a weeklong pylon-to-pylon drama filled with excitement at every turn and endings you will never see coming. Legendary champions will make triumphant returns while up-and-coming pilots vie to challenge ... Read More

The dust has settled (I had a quick 3-day  business trip to Seattle last week), and I've found the time to report on the 2011 Boston Portsmouth Air Show. The weather held out and allowed for almost unlimited flying - although it poured rain some 3 hours after the show ended Sunday evening!  I went on a New Hampshire Air National Guard KC-135 refuel trip on the Thursday prior to ... Read More

Not Just a Routine Training Mission... PACK61 and 62 Heavy flight departed the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease shortly after nine o'clock in the morning.  The pair of New Hampshire Air National Guard KC-135R tankers were on a training mission, tasked to fly half way across the country to meet a group of thirsty Air Force jets and offload 60,000 pounds of fuel to them.  Along the way, PACK62 boom ... Read More

Today some very sad news came across the wires. Frans Dely,one of the leading international aviation photographers, was killed in a plane crash over the weekend. The crash occurred in the Limpopo province of South Africa, officials say they have found the two Piaggio P. 166S Albatross aircraft that disappeared Sunday in the Escarpment area on a flight from an airshow in Tzaneen to Rand Airport in Germiston. Frans ... Read More

On August 6, 2011, Big Bear Airport hosted its bi-annual air fair. Started in 1984, the Big Bear Air Fair is a combination of community a vendor fair, warbird and vintage aircraft static display, and general aviation fly in. Big Bear Airport is located in the San Bernardino National Forest 25 miles northeast of San Bernardino, California. The airport has a 5,850 foot runway and operates under an “uncontrolled approach” ... Read More

EVERETT, Wash. –On August  6th, in conjunction with All Nippon Airways (ANA), rolled out the first 787-8 commercial airliner to be used in revenue passenger service. (Original story by Nate Strong) The airplane was presented in a special livery to celebrate the occasion. The Japanese airline and the Chicago-based manufacturer both sent executives to the event, who made a handful of remarks before the airplane was rolled out of a ... Read More

(Click to listen to an Hour Long audio recording.) In June of 1986 Colonel Graham was selected to be the Vice Wing Commander, 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing (SRW), Beale AFB, California. In that capacity, he was able to fly all of the wing's aircraft: the U-2, T-38, KC-135Q, and SR-71. In June of 1987 he was selected to become the Wing Commander of the 9th SRW, where he remained until ... Read More

Before HMLAT-303 was established in April 1982, Marine Corps helicopter pilots received advanced aircraft training at their fleet squadron after completing basic flight training. Overtime, the Marine Corps realized that this method of training was a drain on squadron operational effectiveness. It recognized the need for a dedicated training squadron that would operate from a high tempo training syllabus to train their young helicopter pilots and enlisted aircrews. The ... Read More

I took a little weekend trip down to the Planes of Fame in Chino, California on the last day of my vacation. I had heard that they were working on a Reno Racer and sure enough look what I found. Airframe Info Manufacturer: Hawker Aircraft Ltd Model: SEA FURY F B II Search all Hawker Aircraft Ltd SEA FURY F B II Year built: 1947 Construction Number (C/N): 41H609972 Aircraft Type: Fixed wing single engine Number of ... Read More

We recorded a little "Welcome Message" with the help of Ross Mitchell. Ross Mitchell has been waking up Northern Nevada radio listeners for over twenty-five years on KOH's Reno's Morning News weekday mornings from 5:00 to 9:00am. His broadcasting career began at age 13 in Fresno, California, and continued into his college years at the University of Pacific in Stockton, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. After ... Read More