News Release    September 10, 2011   Stead Airport, Reno, NV. - Visitors to the Reno National Championship Air Races September 14-18 are invited to take a journey through aviation history to see beautifully restored testaments to our rich aviation legacy at the National Aviation Heritage Invitational. Rare planes dating back to the 1920’s along with the powerful warbirds are vying for the prestigious Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy.  The National Aviation Hall of Fame’s ... Read More

The County of San Bernardino Planes of Fame Airshow is an annual event and one NEVER to be missed. Joe and I have been making this trip for the past three years and it just keeps getting better. This year was special as it was celebrating the "100th Anniversary of  U.S. Naval Aviation". Planes of Fame in conjunction with the County ... Read More

In celebration of the Centennial of Naval Aviation (CoNA) and coinciding with the CoNA events at Naval Air Station North Island (San Diego, CA) on February 11th and 12th, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar opened its flight line to the media to celebrate this historic event. On Friday at 8am, 20 media personnel were given unprecedented access to MCAS Miramar flight line. We were escorted to Base Operations and there ... Read More

A few of our best photographs from this years races.. ... Read More

Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential aircraft. VC-121 Columbine II Air Force One. The presidential call sign was established for security purposes during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The change stemmed from a 1953 incident where an Eastern Airlines  commercial flight (8610) had the same call sign as a flight the president was on (Air Force 8610). The aircraft accidentally entered the same airspace, and after the incident the unique call ... Read More

Team members of Photorecon had a rare opportunity to fly with the Arizona wing of the Air National Guards/ 161st Air Refueling Wing,197th ARS. Our flight with the “Copperheads” took place on December 11th, 2009. During our 2hr flight we experienced the dedication that this group offers up, helping to support “thirsty” aircraft, on missions around the world.Our team flew on board a KC135R a modernized version of the ... Read More

We heard that it is no longer called Avaition Nation but rather the Nellis AFB Open House. Something about budget cutting and no longer having Civilian Performers doing routines at a Military Base. Thanks Obama!! ... Read More

Our very own Dave Budd was invited out to Mojave Space Port to photograph the Orbital L-1011 known as Stargazer”  This  aircraft is an L-1011 commercial transport aircraft modified to serve as the launch platform for Orbital’s air-launched Pegasus rocket as well as a platform for airborne research projects. The L-1011 has been used to successfully launch 32 Pegasus rockets as well as the captive carry flights of the ... Read More

STILL RED HOT? Bruce Hales-Dutton examines Virgin Atlantic Airways as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. Mark Ayton contacts Dave Budd for use of one of his VS 747 landing shots at LAS. Mark has let on that it’s a two page featured shot in the VS article. ... Read More

Walking thru the pits we came upon Kevin who was nice enough to stop and talk with us!! ... Read More

Spent the afternoon shooting at LAX. Got this cool shot of a father and son!! It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. ... Read More

Dave again hit the road and drove to Palm Springs to visit the Air Museum there. It turned out to be a real winner and probably the favorite of the summer visits. I plan on revisiting this museum when it cools a bit. Palm Springs was 115 degrees the days I was there. Most of the A/C are inside air conditioned hangars but they have severalplanes outside as well!! ... Read More

Dave had a weekend free so he loaded up and hit the road. His onjective this day was the Yanks Air Museum located in Chino California. They had two different hangars. The first house aircraft from the “Golden Age” of flying set before the second World War. They only had five or so war birds. Mostly pre war aircraft including this Bi-plane. ... Read More

Dave went down to Riverside and visited the March Air Field Museum after learning that they had an SR-71 there. One of the more interesting aircraft was this F-9 which was in the competition against the fairchild A-10 for the USAF ground attack role aircraft. ... Read More