OCEANA 2019 – ANOTHER GREAT AIR SHOW!
Six (6) Airplanes! Not Really! Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach held its annual Air Show for 2019, on Saturday and Sunday, September 21st and 22nd and everyone had a fun time...
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A LOOK BACK AT OCEANA – 2018’s Show With Planes and STEMS
Naval Air Station Oceana is a pretty secure place. Unless you have business here, you’re never going to get in……except for one weekend each year when Oceana opens up its Main Gate to the...
McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18C and D Hornets
This is Part 2 of a multi-part history of the F/A-18 Hornet by Peter Boschert McDonnell Douglas F / A-18C / D Hornet This variant contains extensive improvements, which for the most part includes...
McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18A and B Hornet
This is Part 1 of a multi-part history of the F/A-18 Hornet by Peter Boschert Originally, this model was developed for the USAF, the roots of the F / A-18 lie in a study...
THE 2017 NAS OCEANA AIR SHOW
Naval Air Station Oceana (NTU) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, had their big 2017 Air Show on September 16th and 17th 2017. The US Navy’s East Coast Master Jet Base, about a mile away from...
Behind the Scenes During the 2016 New York Air Show
A lot of work and effort occurs before spectators view an air show – which usually lasts just a weekend. Realistically, for many of the larger air shows across the Northern Hemisphere, events within...
United States Navy East Coast Hornet Demo Team
United States Navy East Coast Hornet Demo Team 2016 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Airshow The United States Navy East Coast Hornet Demo Team is based at Naval Air Station Oceana, in...
My 2015 Air Show Finale Weekend
The distance “as the crow flies” between NAS Pensacola and Moody AFB is just 280 miles. What a coincidence that this pair of military air bases would host the final large events of the...
NAS Fallon and TOP GUN/NSAWC
The airfield at Naval Air Station Fallon is named in honor of Lieutenant Van Voorhis (1908-1943), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. NAS Fallon is located in northern Nevada, east of the...
VMFA- 323 The Death Rattlers (a.k.a. The Snakes)
The Second World War was still raging in Europe and the Pacific on August 1, 1943, when Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-323, the “Death Rattlers” were commissioned at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point...
Photorecon.net visits the USS Nimitz and the F-35C.
It’s been almost 8 years since the first F-35 Lightning II (a.k.a. the Joint Strike Fighter) took flight, but after many delays and massive cost overruns the F-35 is finally nearing the end of...
FIGHTER TOWN USA, TOP GUN at NAS Miramar
The United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as Top Gun, is the ultimate Fighter School of the United States Navy and had its home at the former Naval Air Station Miramar in...
Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part Three
PART 3: Critical Decisions and Events of the Mid-1980s. I was an F-14 RIO who joined my first Fleet fighter squadron in 1981. In 1982 I attended the Topgun class as a student (by then it was five weeks), and in 1984 I was selected to return as an instructor. The following events and decisions occurred during my time as an instructor and contributed to Topgun’s evolution and continued validity.
Meet the C.O.
This is the first in a series, where we informally sit down and speak with the Commanding Officer of various military units. Simply called the C.O. he/she is responsible for everything, and I do...
