Looking Back: The 2002 NAS Norfolk Air Show

Air National Guard / Airshow / Aviation History / military / U.S. Navy

3 Oct, 2020

Looking Back: The 2002 NAS Norfolk Air Show

Continuing on a theme introduced a month ago; this is the second installment of photographs from airshows that I attended prior to the age of digital photography. I am not proceeding in any particular...

Aircraft carrier / Exercises / Helicopters / military

19 Apr, 2019

HMS Queen Elizabeth Visits Norfolk VA

This past September I had the good fortune to see the Royal Navy’s newest and largest ship the HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) in Norfolk Virginia. Her visit to Norfolk coincided with my visit to...

air force / demo teams / military / navy

5 Apr, 2013

Thunderbirds and Blue Angels: 2013 the Stealth Season

For all the people in Congress in Washington DC…. THANKS…. You are screwing up an American tradition. If any of you read this, please drop me a note. I’d love to chat. Now that...

meetings / post

28 Jul, 2012

Colonel (Ret.) Gaillard “Evil” Peck – Bio

Colonel Gail Peck was born at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the 1st son of Air Corps Lt Gaillard and Lois Peck. He was raised in the military attending school...

assignments / fighters / friends / Marines / military / navy / post

11 Oct, 2011

NAS Oceana’s 2011 Air Show

The 2011 NAS Oceana air show was a roller coaster full of ups and downs… though no fault of the organizers and participants. Tropical moisture invaded the Virginia Beach area, and remained a major...