QF-4E 74-1638 warming up! Photos by Scott Zeno and Alice Leong The U.S. Air Force retired its final McDonnell Douglas/Boeing QF-4 Phantom IIs on December 21, 2016. The jets were the last of the line… more than four thousand...
Photographic coverage by: Joe Kates, Ulrich Seibicke, Scott Jankowski, Mark Hrutkay, Beau Goff, Bob Shane, Alice Leong and Scott Zeno. Story by Ken Kula with Steve Lewis After 53 years of service and having five main versions of the...
Air shows are a driving force behind the public’s interest in aviation. I’ve chosen a handful of long-running events to preview in 2017, and offer some of the venues’ history too. On May 20 – 21, 2017, the Rhode...
Photos by Jim West and the author John Alcock and Arthur Brown, Louis Bleriot, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Samson, Charles Kingsford Smith, Harriet Quimby, Charles Manly, Amelia Earhart and Hubert Latham were all pioneering aviators with a common interest –...
Ken Kula’s Highlights for 2016 Military Aviation: Covered the departure of multiple Italian Air Force flight movements from the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, New Hampshire. In all, saw Eurofighter EF-2000s, a KC-767, Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft, and...
Simsbury Delivers Easy Going, Early Autumn Fly-In Photos by Scott Zeno and Alice Leong The Simsbury Flying Club, plus a host of other local organizations, held their 31st annual Fly-In at central Connecticut’s Simsbury Airport on September 25, 2016....
The next Great State of Maine Air Show (GSMAS) will occur at Brunswick Executive Airport on August 26th and 27th, 2017. Believe it or not, the show production has already begun, some nine months before the big summer weekend....
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is one of those rare breeds of aircraft design that has served with the U.S. military for over half a century. The first flight of a prototype occurred on May 27, 1958. In...
The U.S. Marine Corps recruiting slogan: “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.” has a secondary meaning these days… the Marines operate the last pair of some 57 McDonnell Douglas/Boeing DC-9/C-9 military jet transports. The C-9/DC-9 family has been used...
The Red Arrows are in the midst of a two-month tour of the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, far away from their home of RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The reason why they are so far from home is to...
Every once in a while, the moon and the stars are aligned just right, and things fall together on an air show arrival day that maxes out the “Fun Meter”. Close to ten hours of aviation excitement unfolded on...
Airbus, part of the large Airbus Group of aviation concerns, delivered their ten thousandth (that’s right – 10,000) aircraft on October 14, 2016. Founded on December 18, 1970, the company (originally known as Airbus Industrie) began with its focus...
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