My Trip to the Walt Ray Memorial
A Helicopter Trip to the Walt Ray Memorial By Ray Nixon May 2017 I walked into the unparalleled Hahn’s World of Surplus in North Las Vegas looking for a Nomex flight jacket and some MRE’s for my aviation survival...
Category: Helicopters
Coalition Integration: Red Flag 17-2
Red Flag is America’s premier training exercise for today’s warfighters. Originally developed to improve our nation’s air to air kill ratio during Vietnam, it has grown into much more than strictly air to air tactics. Red Flag 17-2, which...
Australian International Airshow 2017 – Avalon, Victoria
Avalon 2017 was characterised by the involvement of the Australian Defence Force – led by RAAF – the Royal Australian Air Force. Avalon provides the alternate venue for the ADF’s airshow presence. Air Force’s Plan Jericho, now well established,...
Northolt by Night – Night Shooting at RAF Northolt
The Northolt Night Photo Shooting is an event which was started and is still mainly organized by Phil Dawe and his supporting team. He is an aviation enthusiast himself, so is “in the know” when it comes to the...
Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show
Air shows are a driving force behind the public’s interest in aviation. I’ve chosen a handful of long-running events to preview in 2017, and offer some of the venues’ history too. On May 20 – 21, 2017, the Rhode...
The 2015 Australia International Airshow
Editor’s note: the Australian International Aerospace and Defence Exposition 2017 and the 2017 Australian International Airshow will occur between February 28th and March 5th. Here’s a look back at the last event, two years ago… The Australian International Airshow...
Simsbury’s 31st Annual Fly-In
Simsbury Delivers Easy Going, Early Autumn Fly-In Photos by Scott Zeno and Alice Leong The Simsbury Flying Club, plus a host of other local organizations, held their 31st annual Fly-In at central Connecticut’s Simsbury Airport on September 25, 2016....
Atlantic City 2016 Air Show
In the midst of one the east coast’s hottest summers on record, the sixteenth annual mid-week Atlantic City, NJ “Thunder over the Boardwalk Air Show” provided some cool relief with a hot air show. High above the boardwalk, the...
Fire Air Assets Ready for Summer
What isn’t generally realised is that by the time of the disastrous and deadly 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, Australia already had a nascent but established response to more effectively share aerial fire fighting resources where they were needed most....
AirShow London’s Arrival Day Spectacular
Every once in a while, the moon and the stars are aligned just right, and things fall together on an air show arrival day that maxes out the “Fun Meter”. Close to ten hours of aviation excitement unfolded on...
Behind the Scenes During the 2016 New York Air Show
A lot of work and effort occurs before spectators view an air show – which usually lasts just a weekend. Realistically, for many of the larger air shows across the Northern Hemisphere, events within the event begin at least...
An Air Show in Africa- or 5eme Salon International de l´Aeronautique et du Spatial
When I read about a planned Air Show in Morocco in April 2016, I searched the web about previous ones and it looked very promising. There was a small international participation on those shows, but lots of their own...
