Category: Aerial Firefighters

Aerial Firefighters / Airliners / Airshow / Boeing / demo teams / EAA / fighters / Formation Flying / friends / oshkosh / Royal Canadian Air Force / Transports / U.S. Coast Guard / warbirds

15 Aug, 2016

2016 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Scrapbook

Another EAA AirVenture has come and gone, and it’s time to take stock of what we saw. There were headlines, and behind-the-scenes stories that made splashes across social media sites and web sites around the...

Aerial Firefighters / Marines / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Navy

3 Jun, 2016

Still Kicking After 50 Years

North American Aviation/Rockwell’s OV-10 Bronco won a U.S. military competition for a Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (LARA) which was announced in 1963. The LARA requirements included improvements over the current observation aircraft of the...

Aerial Firefighters / bombers

1 Jul, 2015

Palmer Base Expands Operations For the Alaskan Sockeye and Card Street Fires

Monday, June 15, 2015 was a newsworthy day in the town of Willow, Alaska, about a two hour drive north of Anchorage. The nearby wildfire, known as the Sockeye Fire to forestry and firefighting...