144th Fighter Wing F-15 Eagles
Story and photos by Ken Middleton The 144th Fighter Wing / 194th Fighter Squadron, of the California Air National Guard, is the US Air Force’s last F-15C Eagle unit to form and is based at the Fresno / Yosemite...
Category: F-15 Eagle
Boeing Reveals Advanced F-15 Eagles
Story and Photos by Mike Colaner Boeing Defense shocked the world of aviation with an unexpected announcement on their social media platform on May 24th when they posted, “Our F-15 demo team is back and better than ever with...
RAF Fairford RIAT 2024
Story and photos by Jeff Serpa Royal International Air Tattoo 2024 is in the books. This year RIAT promoted several themes for 2024 and welcomed its 58th participating nation to the airshow. RIAT 2024 attracted a sell out crowd...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh: Arrival Day Sunday 2024
With over 1,000 aircraft on the ground already at Oshkosh, I guessed that Sunday would bring a rather orderly, steady stream of general aviation aircraft to watch. A quartering headwind for arrivals on runways 36 Left and Right was...
Preview: EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024
Story and photos, except where noted, by Ken Kula There’s a saying that I’ve heard many times in my life… and it happens “Only in Oshkosh!”. This year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 has a few of these moments in...
The First State Air Show 2024
Story and photos by Shawn Byers Dover Air Force Base held an air show over the weekend of May 18th and 19th, 2024. Due to a family event in Western New York, I could only attend the Friday practice...
Red Flag 24-1 Report
Article and photographs by Del Laughery Most everyone acquainted with military aviation in the United States is familiar with the Red Flag exercises that occur periodically – typically three times each year – at Nellis AFB, Nevada, a military...
Nyutabaru Air Festival 2023
Article and photographs by Howard German One week after attending the very entertaining Tsuiki Air Festival, the Nyutabaru Air Festival 2023 was next up on the busy end of year Japan Air Show schedule. The Nyutabaru Air Festival was...
Cleveland Rocks! The 2023 Cleveland National Airshow
Story and photography by Shawn Byers Cleveland has long been on my list to attend but I never committed to it until 2023. The kick in the pants was the scheduled performance by the Marine Corps AV-8 Harrier. Having...
Thunder Over New Hampshire 2023 Air Show Scrapbook
Photos by Scott Zeno, Alice Leong and Masaki Komatsu New Hampshire’s weather is still warm in September, and on the weekend of September 9th and 10th of 2023, the skies were filled with thunder; not late summer thunderstorms but...
Barnstorming in Central Massachusetts, Part 2
Story by Daniel O. Myers. Photos by Scott Zeno, Kevin Burke and Bob Finch And finally, what the crowd had long anticipated and waited for, the F-35A Demo, and the timing could have not been better! It was just...
Barnstorming in Central Massachusetts, Part 1
Story by Daniel O. Myers. Photos by Scott Zeno, Kevin Burke and Bob Finch The last time the Massachusetts Air National Guard (MA ANG) 104th Fighter Wing (FW) / 131st Fighter Squadron (FS), based at Barnes ANGB in Westfield,...
