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...
Category: warbirds
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...
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...
Fortissimo – “VERY LOUD —used especially as a direction in music.”
Fortissimo – “VERY LOUD —used especially as a direction in music.” And the city of jazz and jets couldn’t have sounded better at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Belle Chasse,...
Thunder Over Michigan Airshow 2021
Kevin Walsh, CEO of the Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, MI as well as Event Director of the 2021 Thunder Over Michigan Airshow conducted an impressive and highly entertaining weekend of military and warbird...
A Super Flyover
Story and photos by Joe Kates, additional photos by Scott Plummer Photorecon was invited to attend the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation media day leading up to the Super Bowl LVI game day flyover....
Pearl Harbor Survivor: Collings Foundation’s Curtiss P-40B Warhawk
The American Heritage Museum in Stow, Massachusetts, is a must-stop visit for any military enthusiast. The museum operated by the Collings Foundation has an incredible display of military vehicles and equipment. The vehicles and...
Yellow Turbine Powered Aircraft
All of these photos have one thing in common… all of the aircraft have a preponderance of yellow in their livery. From time to time, we’ll feature random aircraft types with a specific color...
Our Air Show Preview for 2022
Night photography, Thunder Over Michigan 2021 by Shawn Byers We’re planning our 2022 event campaign as the year changes on our wall calendars. Already, a pair of hoped-for military air shows have been cancelled...
BLUE AIRPLANES – A PHOTO COLLECTION
How well do you know your aircraft types? Well, here’s an assortment of civil, military, and oddballs all thrown together. There’s just a pair of common threads here… they’re aircraft, and they’ve all got...
Chariots Abound – Get in!
The Commemorative Air Force just hosted its annual airshow from 29-31 Oct, 2021 at Dallas Executive airfield, Dallas Texas. Know upfront that you can fly in a P-51 for 20min for $1695 – pass...
