Sundown for the U.S. Navy’s Legacy Hornets
On Friday February 1, 2019 a rare sundown had occurred at 1303 hours at the U.S. Navy’s East Coast Master Jet Base, Naval Air Station Oceana. This sundown had not come early, because this...
Author: Mike Colaner
Wallops Island, Virginia – Cygnus Launch Event
Recently, I was intrigued by an offer on my social media feed that I could not refuse. It read, have you ever attended a night launch before? Now’s your chance! Today is the last...
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you? I think so.
With a nod to the Foo Fighters, my look back at 2018 saw many great new opportunities open up for me as a member of the Photorecon.net family. I contributed seven articles that...
Atlantic City’s Thunder Over the Boardwalk, 2018
Thunder Over the Boardwalk is celebrating its sixteenth year in the skies over the beaches and boardwalk of Atlantic City New Jersey. However few may realize that the roots of this airshow go back...
A Look Back in Time, the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend
Reading Pennsylvania’s Mid-Atlantic Air Museum can boast of a collection of over ninety aircraft and replica aircraft, from the past 100 years. Most of these are civilian aircraft, but a lot of the attention...
Captain Emilio Carranza Rodriguez – The Mexican Lindy
Ninety years have passed since the aviation pioneer known as the ‘Mexican Lindy’, Captain Emilio Carranza Rodriguez and his aircraft “The Mexico-Excelsior’ were lost in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. His aircraft was a...
Power in the Pines 2018
Power in the Pines 2018 was held May 5th and 6th at ‘America’s Premier Joint War-Fighting Base, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) in central New Jersey. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is home to Air Force,...
Joint Exercise “Chesapeake 2018”
In December of 2015 the American and French militaries began discussions on the possibility of deploying Marine Nationale (French Navy) Dassault Rafale M fighters and a Northrup Grumman E-2C Hawkeye from a United States...
What do Floyd Bennett, A Boeing C-97, and The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation Have in Common?
On November 7, 2017, Floyd Bennett Field (KNOP) in Brooklyn, New York witnessed its last scheduled fixed wing flight departure fly off into history. Floyd Bennett Field has seen the likes of famous aviators...
A USAF Thunderbirds Mystery Solved!
Story and photo by Mike Colaner If you have ever attended a performance by United States Air Force Thunderbirds you have seen their F-16’s and comm cart adorned in the unique Thunderbird paint....
