No Place Like Oshkosh
It’s about that time again… EAA AirVenture, 2018! I’m so ready for everything “Oshkosh!” This will be my sixth year attending and by many standards, that still makes me a rookie. There’s still so much I’m sure I haven’t...
Category: Airshow
Airpower Over Hampton Roads 2018
The 2018 edition of Airpower over Hampton Roads was held at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, May 18th through the 20th. The weather forecast for the area was awful due to a stalled front. Due to the rain...
MCAS Cherry Point Air Show 2018
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.” – Ronald Reagan. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point held their bi-annual air show May 4th through...
The Yarram Centenary of Flight
Paul Bennet (Paul Bennet Airshows) turns on another fine performance in his Wolf Pitts Pro, backed by the Wall of Fire. The Yarram Centenary of Flight on 17.3.2018 celebrated 100 years of flight in Yarram, in particular the...
The Ghost Rider at Oshkosh 2017
EAA’s AirVenture, held at Oshkosh Wisconsin, has to be the longest continuously running aviation event in the world, dating back to September 1953 (as a part of the Milwaukee Air Pageant, at the now Timmerman Field). America’s longest serving...
THE 2017 ANDREWS AIR SHOW
The “2017 Joint Base Andrews Air Show – Breaking Barriers for 70 Years – Featuring the Thunderbirds and the Golden Knights” – was held on Saturday and Sunday, September 16 – 17, 2017. Andrews had a fabulous Air Show...
Aviation Nation Air and Space Expo Celebrates USAF 70th Anniversary at Nellis AFB 2017
This year’s Aviation Nation Air & Space Expo celebrated the 70th anniversary of the United States Air Force with exhibitions and demonstrations you hardly see at an aviation exhibition. For the first time at an airshow, the F-35A Lightning...
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 “Feet Wet” on the Atlantic...
“NAVSTANOR” — THE 100th ANNIVERSARY AIR SHOW AT NAS CHAMBERS FIELD, VIRGINIA
Grumman E-2D Hawkeye of VAW-123 “Chambers Field”, the Naval Air Station facility located within Naval Station Norfolk (NAVSTANOR), celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the flying component of the base with a fairly big but somewhat “secret” air show on...
A USAF Thunderbirds Mystery Solved!
Story and photo by Mike Colaner If you have ever attended a performance by United States Air Force Thunderbirds you have seen their F-16’s and comm cart adorned in the unique Thunderbird paint. Their pilots and crews in...
Vegas Strong 2017
Article and all photography © Steve Lewis/Photorecon.net This year, being the 70th anniversary of the United States Air Force, and with the recent tragic shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, Nellis Air Force Base...
Pratt and Whitney’s Sixty-Fifth Anniversary Air Show
The year was 1990, sixty-five years after the Pratt and Whitney company began their work on aircraft engines in East Harford, Connecticut. Frederick Rentschler and six others moved into an empty shop space in 1925, and developed the Wasp...
