TROJAN TRIUMPH
Story and photos by Roland Dansereau This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the T-28 Trojan. It has a long and impressive history and can still be seen flying today whether as a large 12-ship formation (like at Oshkosh,...
Category: Marines
Dwindling Numbers: U. S. Marine Corps is Retiring the AV-8B Harrier
Story by Ken Kula, Photos from the Photorecon.net Photographer Team The U. S. Marine Corps, the only branch of America’s military to operate the Hawker Siddeley AV-8A/C Harrier and the British Aerospace/McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, is set to...
2024 Fleet Week – New York City
Story by Bill Sarama, photos by Bill Sarama and Howard German “Fleet Week” was held in New York during Memorial Day weekend from Wednesday, May 22nd, when the “Parade of Ships” entered New York Harbor starting at 9 AM...
The Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association – a. k. a. The River Rats
Story by Ken Kula, with plenty of help from the “River Rats” Association U. S. military aircraft began bombing targets in North Vietnam in March 1965 and completed their campaigns by December 1972. Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine...
Unfinished Business: The Yuma Airshow 2024
Story and photos by Shawn Byers The last time I was Yuma, it was March 2020. The Airshow was canceled two days before it was supposed to occur in line with the rapid onset of the Covid-19 shutdowns. I...
NAS Oceana 2023 Air Show
Article written by Daniel O. Myers, photos by Bob Finch and Howard German First built eighty years ago as a World War II auxiliary military landing field, NAS Oceana (NASO) has grown into the U.S. Navy’s East Coast Master...
Giants At EAA AirVenture 2022
Delta Airlines’ Airbus A-350-900 arriving over the runways at Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the EAA AirVenture 2022. More than 10,000 aircraft pass over the western shores of Lake Winnebago during the seven-day celebration known as EAA AirVenture. The flying machines...
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: The 2021 Cherry Point Airshow
Not only did Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point host an airshow on September 25th and 26th, but they pulled it together in only 9 weeks. I received an email on July 16th from MCAS Cherry Point announcing that...
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma 2020 The Airshow That Never Happened
When I made my travel plans for an epic, double airshow trip to Arizona in the fall of 2019, COVID-19, generally referred to as Corona Virus, was not news, it was not even a thing. On the eve of...
New York Air Show; August 2019
MISSION BRIEF: Stewart International Airport held its big Air Show for 2019 on Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th. Officially called the “NEW YORK AIR SHOW”, Stewart, located west of Newburgh, New York, in rural Orange County,...
Marine Corps WTI 2-19 Exercise in Kiwanis Park, Yuma AZ
On April 19th, the United States Marine Corps descended upon Kiwanis Park in Yuma, Arizona, in their CH-53E Super Stallions and UH-1Y Venoms in a simulated humanitarian assistance mission. The park offers a large enough field to land multiple...
‘Bert’s Retirement Surprises Many, What’ll Replace the Iconic Lockheed Transport?
The U.S. Navy’s ‘Blue Angels’ caught nearly everyone by surprise when they announced on May 22nd of this year that their U.S. Marine Corps Lockheed Martin KC-130T Hercules (BuNo 164763 / CN 5258) affectionately known as ‘Fat Albert’ was...
