Airshow London’s Sky Drive 2021
The “Sky Drive” format, introduced by Airshow London in 2020, returned for another successful show on August 27-29, 2021. In 2020, when most of the airshows were canceled, those that were held typically featured...
Category: military
Spending my Birthday at TOPGUN
With the National Championship of Air Races being canceled in year 2019, we were more than excited to get back to Reno when the news that the 2021 races would go on….Joe and I...
Military Aircraft on Display at the 2021 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
There were more military aircraft than normal displayed at Oshkosh this year. Some performed in the air, many more were parked as static displays on the grounds. After a strangely quiet year at...
Atlantic City, NJ Airshow 2021
Story by Daniel O Myers, Photos by Daniel O. Myers and Richard Roth Just about every aspect of American life has been affected by the scourge of Covid-19. Not the least of which had...
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Aircraft at EAA’s AirVenture 2021
EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 featured a great deal of American military aircraft. Between active military airplanes, helicopters, UAVs and their crews, plus warbirds – which are retired military aircraft now owned and operated by...
EAA AirVenture 2021 Air Show Performers
Not a complete list, but here are photos of many of the dizzying number of civilian and military air show performers who entertained crowds at the EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 extravaganza. Every afternoon of...
Specially Marked Military Aircraft Volume #5
Air National Guard Bureau’s C-38A at Andrews AFB Royal Australian Air Force MB-326 Edwards AFB-based F-4E Phantom II Royal Air Force Nimrod NP-3D Orion AWACS at NAS Patuxent River Douglas A-3 Skywarrior at NAS...
AIRVENTURE 2021
EAA President Jack Pelton said it best, “The wait is over”, and indeed it was. It felt so good to be back “home” at AirVenture Oshkosh after last year’s cancellation due to the ongoing...
Our F-15 Eagle Scrapbook
The McDonnell Douglas, and later Boeing F-15 Eagle initial prototype first flew in 1972; a dozen prototypes were produced. Just shy of 1,200 airframes in several versions were built, with more expected in the...
Looking Back to my 2001 Australia Trip
I took a trip to Australia to see the 2001 Avalon Air Show, which celebrated the Centenary of Federation of that country. There were many aircraft types that I’d never seen before, and there...
World War II Weekend is Back
Written by Shawn Byers, photos by Shawn Byers and Don Linn, where noted. After a one year hiatus for 2020, The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend celebrated a 30 year anniversary, June...
Specially Marked Military Aircraft Volume 4
Grumman EA-6B Prowler Lockheed S-3 Viking Northrop F-5E Tiger II McDonnell Dougles F-4C McDonnell Douglas F-15B Eagle Northrop F-5A General Dynamics NF-16D Lockheed C-130E BAE Nimrod Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs McDonnell Douglas QF-4...
