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29 Dec, 2017

Vegas Strong 2017

Article and all photography © Steve Lewis/Photorecon.net This year, being the 70th anniversary of the United States Air Force, and with the recent tragic shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas...

U.S. Navy / warbirds

23 Dec, 2017

You Can Go Home Again, Sort Of – Robert F. Lindley’s Fifty Second Anniversary Flight

Written By: Harry Ballance Photos by: Gerhard Frenz December 7 means different things to a lot of people. For those of a certain age it is most often associated with Pearl Harbor Day;...

Airshow / New England / Special Aviation Events

9 Dec, 2017

Pratt and Whitney’s Sixty-Fifth Anniversary Air Show

The year was 1990, sixty-five years after the Pratt and Whitney company began their work on aircraft engines in East Harford, Connecticut. Frederick Rentschler and six others moved into an empty shop space in...

Airshow / Blue Angels / Helicopters / Marines / warbirds

29 Nov, 2017

“A SALUTE TO VIETNAM VETERANS”

Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar hosted their 2017 edition of their annual airshow from Sep 29th-Oct 2, 2017. Home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3d MAW), Miramar boasts one of the largest...

Airshow / Blue Angels / fighters / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

24 Nov, 2017

Photographic Highlights From NAS Oceana’s 2017 Air Show

All Photography by Howard German The weekend of September 16th and 17th, 2017 was surely a noisy one for the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The annual air show at NAS Oceana roared through...

Air to air photography / featured / Interviews

24 Nov, 2017

“Hazy” Haseltine Talks About the Planning Behind His Photographic Projects

This is the second part of an interview of Jim “Hazy” Haseltine, the photographer behind the lens for the “Hazy’s Photo of the Week” feature you see here at Photorecon.net. What equipment does...

Book Review / Civil aviation / museums / published / warbirds

18 Nov, 2017

The Adventures of an Airplane Nut

If you have even a casual interest in aviation history, you’d be envious of Ron Pagano’s aviation experiences. Interested in aviation well before he enlisted in the Air Force in 1953, his life...

Airshow / Blue Angels / museums / warbirds / World War II

14 Nov, 2017

Thunder Over Michigan 2017

You never know what you will see or hear in the skies around Detroit’s Willow Run International Airport located in Ypsilanti MI. Willow Run has a little of everything from locally based USA Jet...

Airshow / Blue Angels / Helicopters / military

5 Nov, 2017

Great State of Maine Air Show, 2017’s Event

Over a late summer weekend, the one just before America’s Labor Day holiday, the Great State of Maine Airshow attracted tens of thousands of vacationers and residents. Held at the expansive Brunswick Executive Airport,...

Blue Angels / video

29 Oct, 2017

San Francisco Fleet Week 2017

It’s October in San Francisco, which means it has to be Fleet Week. Since 1981 Fleet Week has been a fixture in the City by the Bay. It’s a week long event with disaster...