A Look at the 2022 MacDill AFB Air Show
T-1A Jayhawk in USAF/Squadron commemorative colors at MacDill AFB Bob Finch took a quick trip to visit family and the MacDill AFB air show in March, 2022. Here are some of the aircraft on...
Category: Aviation History
AFTER OCEANA 2019 – “THE MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM”
It was Sunday, September 22nd, 2019, in Virginia Beach. Yesterday, Saturday, was my last day at the 2019 NAS Oceana Air Show, always one of the best military shows in the United States. As...
Looking Back – My Fort Drum Familiarization Trip
Around the beginning of the new Millennium – that being 2000 to 2003 I believe, a familiarization program for FAA air traffic controllers was organized to watch and learn about Army and National Guard...
A Lockheed Constellation Scrapbook
The Constellation was a pre-World War II airliner design begun by Lockheed Corporation in 1937. In 1939, Transcontinental and Western Airlines (later known as just TWA) showed interest in a long ranged transport with...
Wings of Peace – Serpentine Air Race 1920 – 2022
Racewinner VH-GAV(Bunn/Gerraty) is followed by “Millie” T-5531/VH-CXV from Cressy, Victoria, seen landing after the race finish Held in a farmer’s paddock as a nod to similar circumstances a century ago, and with planning across...
MiG-29 Scrapbook
Ukrainian Falcons MiG-29A at Burlington, Vermont in 1992 Mikoyan’s MiG-29 jet fighter prototype first flew in late 1977, and entered production in 1981. The design was developed in response to the new American...
Ceremony Caps off 100 Years
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-18 Mustang VH-SVU / AM-G makes its dedication pass Wednesday, March 30, was the date on which the Royal Australian Air Force concluded its year of centenary celebrations with a moving...
Some American Air Refueling History
All photos by Del Laughery or the Del Laughery collection As common place as it is, these days, for two aircraft to very nearly occupy the same piece of the sky and move jet...
Dandy Randy – The Great Texas Airshow!
Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph AFB, TX just hosted its airshow on April 23-24 2022 celebrating the 75th anniversary of the USAF and 80 years of Air Education and Training (naturally under the Army then)....
AVIATION ON THE WAY TO OCEANA
Are you heading down to Oceana this September on US-13 south through DelMarVa? Hope so! It’s been a quiet two summers for plane chasers and our beloved air shows with most shut down because...
Crowned Wings
The Blue Angel pilots started training at a base like this long before arriving to Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, FL. While they we’re heading the show at Naval Air Station Kingsville 2-3 April...
White Aircraft Photo Scrapbook
All of the aircraft in these photos have one thing in common… the color white. You can hover over the photo to find the type or click it for a larger view. Enjoy!
