DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM
Ten miles South of Omaha Nebraska, adjacent to the city of Bellevue Nebraska, one will find Offutt Air Force Base. Offutt has a very rich history dating back to the late 1890’s when Fort Crook was constructed, as a...
Category: fighters
Royal Air Force Tornadoes Are Retired From Service
Panavia GR.4 of the Royal Air Force By the time you read this article, the RAF’s workhorse Tornado GR.4/GR.4A attack jets will have flown all but their final few hours of their forty year service.. Having a lineage that...
McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18C and D Hornets
This is Part 2 of a multi-part history of the F/A-18 Hornet by Peter Boschert McDonnell Douglas F / A-18C / D Hornet This variant contains extensive improvements, which for the most part includes the internal systems. All machines...
F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Arrives in Australia
All imagery © Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence (unless otherwise credited) On 10 December 2018, a new technological era dawned as Air Force celebrated the delivery of its first F-35A Joint Strike Fighter aircraft at RAAF Base Williamtown,...
McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18A and B Hornet
This is Part 1 of a multi-part history of the F/A-18 Hornet by Peter Boschert Originally, this model was developed for the USAF, the roots of the F / A-18 lie in a study begun in 1966 by Northrop...
FREEDOM’S THUNDER A LOOK AT OUR MODERN MILITARY AT AIRVENTURE 2018
Every year AirVenture always pulls together a fascinating array of modern military aircraft and 2018 was no different. There were aircraft representing the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Army, United States...
Maryland Fleet Week and Airshow, 2018
In what has become a biannual tradition, Naval vessels and aircraft arrived in Baltimore for Maryland Fleet Week and Airshow, October 3rd through 9th, 2018. American, British and Canadian ships were available for tours in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor or...
A Review of the 2018 MacDill AirFest
All photos by Bob Finch Tampa Florida’s MacDill AFB held the AirFest 2018 amid warm and somewhat hazy conditions during mid-May. A wide variety of military and civilian-owned aircraft were on display, from the cutting edge F-22 Raptor to...
OPERATION ATLANTIC RESOLVE 2018
5th Generation F-22 Raptor Fighter Jets’ return to European Skies Beginning August, 2018, the United States Air Force deployed thirteen of its F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Jets to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany to conduct air training with other...
More Photography From the 2018 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show
The name is rather long – The 2018 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show. The aerial presentations during the show were visually stunning and sounded thunderous, with plenty of jets and high performance piston-engined aircraft flying in...
Geneseo Airshow 2018, The Greatest Show on Turf
I am proud to bring you my other hometown area airshow from Western New York. The proper name of it is the National Warplane Museum Airshow, the Greatest Show on Turf. I call her Genny. I first attended this...
Frisian Flag April 2018, Leeuwarden AB/Netherlands and EART 2018
The 2018 edition of Frisian Flag was conducted between April 9th to April 20th, 2018 at Leeuwarden AB in the North of the Netherlands. The participating refueling aircraft were stationed at the NATO Base Eindhoven and belonged to...
