Breezy Point Aviation Day
Story and photos by Del Laughery Breezy Point Airport, 8MN3, is a private field sporting a single 2576 X 50 ft runway, 17/35, located seven miles east of Pequot Lakes, MN, and within walking distance of Pelican Lake and...
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104th Fighter Wing F-15C/D Eagle Legacy (2007 – 2025)
Part 1 – 2007 to 2012 By Ken Middleton The 104th Fighter Wing, part of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, is based at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts. They recently retired their fleet of F-15C/D Eagles...
REPUBLIC AIRPORT – THE OTHER LONG ISLAND AIR SHOW!
Jones Beach, on the Ocean in Long Island near New York City, just had its big Memorial Day Weekend Air Show on Saturday and Sunday, May 26th and 27th, 2018. The Jones Beach air show was officially called the...
Remembering Ed Maloney’s Legacy at Chino, 2017
Legacy. Everyone leaves one and every person has a choice in how theirs will be defined. By a person’s actions, they determine how they are to be remembered. While everyone experiences some degree of success in this endeavor, some...
“Destination: Oshkosh, 2017”
What’s a girl to do? It’s another grey day in Indiana. The sun is not even trying to peek though and I want to go flying! I’m grounded. And I don’t have a pilot’s license or a pilot (for...
The Robert A. “Bob” Hoover Celebration of Life Ceremony
A pair of F-86s, Hoover’s favorite aircraft, fly formation with an F-22 Report and Photography by Bob Shane October 25, 2016 marked the passing of R.A. “Bob” Hoover at age 94. He was one of the most accomplished...
We mourn the passing of Robert A. “Bob” Hoover, “The Greatest Stick and Rudder Man Who Ever Lived.”
(Photo: Smithsonian/National Air & Space Museum) One of the greatest pilots in aviation history passed into the eternal Wild Blue Yonder on October 25, 2016, R. A. “Bob” Hoover. The ninety-four year old Hoover passed away at his Los Angeles home...
Dr Sky and Photorecon Interview Aviation Legend Robert “Bob” Gilliland
CLICK ABOVE PLAYER TO LISTEN TO INTERVIEW In our ongoing series Legends In Aviation, the Photorecon team was honored to sit down with a living legend and hear the first hand account of how one man, with the support of...
Photorecon Visits The U.S.S. John C. Stennis – CVN 74
It’s often called “Four acres of American Sovereignty”, an American Aircraft Carrier can brings many different emotions to many different people and governments around the world, when one shows up offshore of a foreign country. Responding to emergencies such...
The Search For A-12 Article 125
(This is a fictional photo: Original US Air Force. Intended to show 60-6928 in flight) This is the story about the Hunt for 928. Precisely known as a/c 60-6928 or labeled by the CIA as Article 125. Workers...
Photorecon flies with VMM-166 SeaElk
While attending the 100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation in San Diego, CA, the Photorecon team was invited to attend Media day at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Having previously covered numerous media events at MCAS Miramar, we knew what...
D.V. Embarkation aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker/Released) A Journey To The USS Carl Vinson / CVN 70 By Steve Kates- Dr.Sky As a Radio/TV host; Dr.Sky; it has been a goal of mine, to report...
