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23 Jun, 2017

Quonset Point RI 2017, and a Whole Lot More!

Quonset Point had an air show on May 20th and 21st in Rhode Island right on Narragansett Bay, and just a short drive from Newport. Some people will say it only had seven airplanes....

fighters / Fly-In / military / warbirds

21 Jun, 2017

Waukesha’s Gathering of Warbirds 2017

Waukesha County Airport (KUES), better known as Crites Field, lies approximately 26 miles to the West of General Mitchell International Airport (KMKE) and adjacent to I-94. It covers 543 acres and has two runways,...

Air National Guard / Airshow / demo teams / museums / Viet Nam / warbirds / World War II

16 Jun, 2017

The Other Jones Beach Air Show

Jones Beach, NY, had a big Memorial Day Air Show on Saturday, May 27th. Show Center was at the classic Memorial Tower, at the center of Jones Beach State Park on the ocean, south...

Helicopters / Marines / Special Aviation Events / U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Navy

6 Jun, 2017

Another Great Day at Sea

New York Fleet Week 2017 “Another Great Day At Sea – Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush” was an excellent book by Geoff Dyer, that came out in 2014 and described in...

Airshow / Blue Angels / demo teams

2 Jun, 2017

Gearing Up For the 2017 New York Air Show

For the third consecutive year, the skies over New Windsor, New York will be ablaze with color and sound as the New York Air Show puts aloft a varied group of aerial performers. The...

Australia / bombers / World War II

31 May, 2017

75th Anniversary of the “Forgotten 18th Squadron”

Dion Makowski with Anne West They shall grow not old, As we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun,...

Civil aviation / post / Special Aviation Events / tribute

30 May, 2017

Remembering LZ 129, the Hindenburg and the Importance of Naval Air Station Lakehurst

On May 6, 2017, I attended the memorial service of the eightieth anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster at the spot where the Hindenburg crashed at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The weather was...

air force / Base Visits / europe / Exercises / fighters

27 May, 2017

Austrian Air Force Eurofighters Train in Northern Germany

The central European country of Austria is quite small, at nearly 83,000 square kilometers (or 32,000 square miles and roughly the size of the state of South Carolina); the possibility to train with its’ Eurofighters...

Airshow

25 May, 2017

Trains to Planes in Rhode Island

The 2017 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show offered a “Trains to Planes” rail service to the air show venue, from a trio of easily accessible commuter rail stations. I took...

Air National Guard / Base Visits / Exercises / Fly-In

23 May, 2017

NORTHERN LIGHTNING 2017

You could easily miss its’ twenty three hundred acres, nine thousand foot runway and forty acres of ramp space when driving by on Interstate 90. We are referring to Volk Air National Guard Base...