2022… Edwards AFB Then and Now
Photos and story by Steve Lewis Edwards Air Force Base, the birth place of where it all began for so many, including myself. After a 12 year hiatus, Edwards opened it’s doors to the general public once again. This...
Category: Air Transports
“Back in Black” – August 2022 Saw the Return of Exercise Pitch Black
Story and Photos by David Campion “Back in Black” August 2022 saw the return of Exercise Pitch Black to the skies of the Northern Territory, Australia, after a four-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The biannual exercise involved...
AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022
Photos and story by Scott Jankowski AirVenture 2022 is now history, Wittman Regional Airport is back to its typical laidback traffic flow, and once again records were broken. AirVenture 2022 did not disappoint in both aircraft attractions and in...
2022 Thunder over Dover Air Show
Story by Daniel O. Myers. Photos by Howard German, Daniel O. Myers, and Bob Finch The weather for the weekend at Dover was unusually hot with bright sunny skies and cool breezes. The air show turned out to be...
Old Gems from Bob Finch
Aeronca 7AC floatplane Bob Finch has some very old slides. He has reproduced a dozen images here as scans from slides in the late 1950s, from Teterboro, NJ and Idlewild Airport, NY. WACO RNF, note the Meteor Air Transport...
Royal International Air Tattoo 2022
If you maintain an air show bucket list like I do, I submit that the list is not complete without the Royal International Air Tattoo. This exceptional show, which occurs every year in July at RAF Fairford, about an...
Giants At EAA AirVenture 2022
Delta Airlines’ Airbus A-350-900 arriving over the runways at Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the EAA AirVenture 2022. More than 10,000 aircraft pass over the western shores of Lake Winnebago during the seven-day celebration known as EAA AirVenture. The flying machines...
EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022 – FACTS AND FIGURES FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR
Here’s the official media release with facts and figures of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh 2022. The massive celebration of aviation is touted as “Unlike Anything Else”, and for a week in mid-summer in Wisconsin, a huge...
Philadelphia Team Jets
Story and photos by Don Linn Editor’s note: This story ran just before the NFL Championship game in February, 2023. Philadelphia sports teams, as do all other major teams, use their team jets to recruit high value players and...
Fokker Turboprop Airliners
Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer which operated in various forms from 1912 through 1996. Anthony Fokker’s company began its life in Germany before World War I, and ended up in The Netherlands, headquartered in Amsterdam before closing in...
Yellow Turbine Powered Aircraft
All of these photos have one thing in common… all of the aircraft have a preponderance of yellow in their livery. From time to time, we’ll feature random aircraft types with a specific color in these pages… enjoy these...
Australian International Air Show 2001
Miles M3A Falcon Major I was very fortunate to be able to attend the 2001 Australian International Air Show… some twenty years ago. It was as much a trade show as it was an air show, and what you...
