The Other Side of Thunder 2016
The Skies over Detroit’s Willow Run International Airport (KYIP) are devoid once again of high performance fighters – of today and yesterday – once again. Thunder Over Michigan 2016 is in the rear view...
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Reading Pennsylvania World War II Weekend 2016
For twenty-six years the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum located at the Reading, Pa Regional Airport has conducted its World War II Weekend. Consistently attracting a large audience to any venue constantly requires something new and...
Pitch Black 2016, Part 1
“PITCHING IN” Air Operations during Exercise Pitch Black 2016 This story begins in a secluded bush block near Darwin Airport – DRW/YPDN (Northern Territory, Australia) with barely a puff of breeze caressing the long,...
Legacies of Boeing’s First 100 Years
There’s an oft-used quote that you should “…never forget where you came from”. As The Boeing Company turns 100 years, the rich tapestry of people and corporate entities that became parts of the Boeing...
Boeing Marks Its 100th Year in Business
Boeing Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois On October 1, 1881, William E. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan. He, and the company he would later found, would offer innovation and expansion to a fledgling aircraft...
Nashua, NH Offers A Cozy Fit For “FIFI”, CAF
Nashua is the second most populated city in the state of New Hampshire, and within an hour’s drive from the larger cities of Manchester and Boston, Massachusetts. Boire Field, Nashua’s municipal airport, is categorized...
Chino’s Planes Of Fame Airshow, 2016 Edition
As many shows as I go to each year, there are none I look forward to more than the Planes of Fame Airshow in Chino, California. The POF museum boasts an incredible collection of...
MCAS Cherry Point’s 75th Anniversary Air Show
Over the last weekend in April 2016, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in the town of Havelock North Carolina, offered their 75th Anniversary Air Show. The last three quarters of a century has seen...
2016 Power in the Pines Open House and Air Show
The nation’s only tri-service military base, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, held its biennial Power in the Pines Open House and Air Show during the weekend of May 14th and 15th, 2016. The...
Warbird Weekend, Arizona Style
As parts of this great nation were still under winter weather watches and warnings, with everything from snow flurries to all-out blizzard conditions, the weather in Arizona at the same time was just the...
LA County Airshow 2016
The Los Angeles County Airshow sprang back to life on March 19th and 20th at William J. Fox Field in Lancaster, California. Lancaster is approximately 75 miles north of Los Angeles in the...
Red Flag 16-2 Stresses Coalition Partnership
Red Flag is the United States Air Force’s premier training exercise conducted inside the Nevada Test and Training Range in the Nevada desert. The NTTR has the largest air and ground space anywhere in...
