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,...
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...
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....
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...
The long awaited Pacific Airshow was back for 3 days in Huntington Beach, October 1st – 3rd. The much anticipated Air Show brought aviation fans to Huntington Beach from all over the globe. The...
The “Sky Drive” format, introduced by Airshow London in 2020, returned for another successful show on August 27-29, 2021. In 2020, when most of the airshows were canceled, those that were held typically featured...
EAA President Jack Pelton said it best, “The wait is over”, and indeed it was. It felt so good to be back “home” at AirVenture Oshkosh after last year’s cancellation due to the ongoing...
The McDonnell Douglas, and later Boeing F-15 Eagle initial prototype first flew in 1972; a dozen prototypes were produced. Just shy of 1,200 airframes in several versions were built, with more expected in the...
The 2008 Rhode Island International Air Show was a wide-ranging celebration of military and civilian aviation. Some of the highlights were: the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows were completing their North American Tour,...
A Royal Canadian Air Force CC-137 tanker/transport departs during an Ottawa air show weekend. Ottawa’s Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (CYOW) serves Canada’s National Capital Region, sometimes known as Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area. The airport is serviced...
With an unused airline ticket in my bank, I returned to the Wings Over Houston Airshow for a second year in a row after the official announcement that it was a go for October...
The Great Cities of the American Revolution Flyover 2020 marked the nation’s 244th birthday. Due to nationwide Covid-19 virus concerns, most activities normally associated with the holiday (fireworks, parades, concerts, etc.) were canceled. In...
The United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron “Thunderbirds” and U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron “Blue Angels” fly in formation together over the Eastern Seaboard, April 28, 2020. The Thunderbirds and Blue Angels performed...
Snowbirds CT-114 cockpit. On Sunday morning May 17, 2020, shortly before noontime in Kamloops, British Columbia, a pair of RCAF CT-114 Tutors, part of the Snowbirds team, departed the airport carrying the advance coordination...
509th Bomb Wing B-2A Spirit “Spirit of America” takes off on a Red Flag 22-1 mission from Nellis Air Force Base, North Las Vegas, Nevada, on 10 February 2022. Catching photos with the moon...
All photos by Del Laughery or the Del Laughery collection As common place as it is, these days, for two aircraft to very nearly occupy the same piece of the sky and move jet...
Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph AFB, TX just hosted its airshow on April 23-24 2022 celebrating the 75th anniversary of the USAF and 80 years of Air Education and Training (naturally under the Army then)....
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...
Collings Foundation’s American Heritage Museum, 2021, Stow, MA. Curtiss P-40B Warhawk. It was amazing to see an aircraft that is airworthy and also a Pearl Harbor survivor in person. The incredible staff at the Collings Foundation allowed...
The Blue Angel pilots started training at a base like this long before arriving to Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, FL. While they we’re heading the show at Naval Air Station Kingsville 2-3 April...
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans hosted their first airshow in 5 years on March 19th and 20th, 2022. I have had this show on my list for a few years and...
All of the aircraft in these photos have one thing in common… the color white. You can hover over the photo to find the type or click it for a larger view. Enjoy!
Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport would officially become JetBlue Airlines 110th destination when JetBlue 2229 from Boston Logan International Airport touched down on Runway 1 Left at 0834 on March 27th, 2022. The inaugural flight...
A study in oil. The Wright Cyclone R-3350 provides plenty of oil down the side of the AD-1 Skyraider on the ramp at EAA AirVenture in 2018 Here are fifteen photos of aircraft, aviators,...
Aviation Report Downunder joined around 25,000 Melburnians for a very local, enjoyable event, conducted on the main terminal tarmac in beautiful autumnal sunshine. We intend to highlight the exhibitors of the Victorian Emergency...
The Airbus story began in the mid to late 1960’s when Western European Aerospace Manufacturers along with their respective governments realized a different approach was needed in order to complete with the American Aerospace...
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