Category: Helicopters

Aerobatics / Airshow / Blue Angels / Helicopters / military / U.S. Marines

April 7, 2019

2018’s MCAS Miramar Airshow Reviewed, Less Than Six Months Until the 2019 Show

Less than six months remain until the U.S. Marine Corps present a seldom-seen exercise that tells the story of high-tech teamwork in action. The Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) presentation combines aviation and ground forces together on the...

Aerobatics / Airshow / Helicopters / military / museums / USAF Thunderbirds / warbirds

March 30, 2019

A Look Back to the New York Air Show of 2018, and a Preview of What’s Ahead

MISSION BRIEF: Stewart International Airport held its big Air Show for 2018 on Saturday and Sunday, September 15th and 16th. Officially called the “New York Air Show”, Stewart, located west of Newburgh, New York, in rural Orange County,...

Helicopters / Marines / NASA / Search and Rescue / U.S. Navy

March 2, 2019

Sikorsky’s Sea Kings No Longer Rule the Waves

The prototype Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King made its’ first flight on March 11, 1959. There are still some later-built versions in use today, some sixty years ago, attesting to the design’s usefulness and reliability. Sikorsky Aircraft began manufacturing the...

Air National Guard / Air Transports / Airshow / Boeing / bombers / fighters / Formation Flying / Helicopters / Marines / Special Events / Trainers / Transports / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

December 9, 2018

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...

Civil aviation / General Aviation / Helicopters / Special Aviation Events / Yearly Review

November 25, 2018

NBAA BACE 2018, Business Aviation Shines in Florida

The saying “Time is Money…” is popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, although the phrase can be traced back before the American Revolution. A different type of revolution is in the air nowadays; business aviation has definitely taken this adage...

Airshow / Civil aviation / Helicopters / military / warbirds

November 19, 2018

Wings Over Camarillo 2.0

A new format to the Wings over Camarillo Airshow was rolled out this year at the Camarillo Airport, which is also the headquarters for the Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. A increased area for the STEM...

Airshow / Helicopters / post

November 5, 2018

Atlantic City’s Thunder Over the Boardwalk, 2018

Thunder Over the Boardwalk is celebrating its sixteenth year in the skies over the beaches and boardwalk of Atlantic City New Jersey. However few may realize that the roots of this airshow go back well over a century to...

Exercises / Helicopters / military / Parachute Competition

September 17, 2018

Leapfest 2018

All photos by Philip P. Giordano/PhilGPhoto.com, who filed this report for Photorecon.net… I spent part of my Sunday morning in the back seat of a Black Hawk helicopter shooting air-to-air photographs at Leapfest, the largest, longest standing, international static...

General Aviation / Helicopters

September 15, 2018

HAI Helo-Expo 2018

The Helicopter Association International’s yearly convention (HAI Heli-Expo 2018) was held during the last week in February at the Las Vegas, Nevada Convention Center. Over 17,000 attendees and 700 companies alighted in Las Vegas, and slightly over four dozen...

Air National Guard / Air to air photography / bombers / fighters / Formation Flying / Helicopters / U.S. Air Force

August 1, 2018

Hazy’s Gallery of Photos of the Week

Here’s a running collection of Jim “Hazy” Haseltine’s Photos of the Week, it’ll be updated as a new photo is posted too. Enjoy these awesome air-to-air images of warplanes in their element! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

bombers / fighters / Helicopters / Trainers / Transports / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy / warbirds

May 6, 2018

U.S. Military Aviation’s Half Century Club

There are a handful of aircraft designs that are approaching, or have already surpassed fifty years of service with various U.S. military users. Half a century of service speaks praises of the design’s utility and adaptability, as many designs...

Airshow / Helicopters / Special Aviation Events / U.S. Navy

February 8, 2018

“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...