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Jones Beach Bethpage Air Show 2024

Aerobatics / Air National Guard / Airshow / Blue Angels / demo teams / featured / fighters / military / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Navy / warbirds

Jones Beach Bethpage Air Show 2024

Story by Daniel O. Myers, photos by Kevin Burke Since 2004, the Bethpage Federal Credit Union has sponsored all seventeen Memorial Day weekend air shows at Jones Beach State Park, NY. Broadcast on local 104.7 FM radio, the 2024...

Aviation History / featured / fighters / Marines / McDonnell Douglas / military / U.S. Marine Corps

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...

Aerial Refueling / Aerobatics / Air Transports / Airshow / featured / fighters / military / NORAD / U. S. Air National Guard / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / warbirds

Dover AFB Air Show 2024

Story by Daniel O. Myers, photography by Howard German It was only appropriate that the first major air show in the mid-Atlantic U.S. should be held in Delaware, the nation’s first state. Weather wise, the weekend of May 17...

Aerial Refueling / Aviation History / featured / Flight Test / Grumman / Helicopters / McDonnell Douglas / military

Dwindling Numbers; More American Military Aircraft Heading Towards Retirement

Captions by Ken Kula, Photos by Photorecon.net’s Photography Team Many of the U. S.’s military aircraft are approaching or have exceeded 50 years of use. As such, the military branches are replacing older airframes with new ones; there are...

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RAF Fairford RIAT 2024

Story and photos by Jeff Serpa Royal International Air Tattoo 2024 is in the books. This year RIAT promoted several themes for 2024 and welcomed its 58th participating nation to the airshow. RIAT 2024 attracted a sell out crowd...

Aviation History / Aviation Photography / demo teams / featured / Formation Flying / military / Special Aviation Events

Frecce Tricolori Flypast Over the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Story and photo by Daniel O. Myers The Frecce Tricolori’s North American Tour included participating in ten air shows along with sixteen flyovers. One of those flypasts took place on Monday morning August 12, following the New York Air...

Aerobatics / Air Transports / Airbus / Airshow / Aviation History / Centennial celebration / demo teams / featured / Helicopters / military / RCAF Snowbirds / Royal Canadian Air Force / Search and Rescue / Special Aviation Events / Transports

The 2024 Quinte International Airshow

Story and photos by Shawn Byers On June 28-30, I traveled north of the border to Canada’s largest military base, Canadian Forces Base Trenton, for the Quinte International Airshow celebrating 100 years of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Airshows...

Aerial Refueling / Airbus / Australia / Base Visits / Europe / featured / fighters / Helicopters / military / Royal Australian Air Force / Special Events

Exercise Pitch Black 2024

Story and photos by Dion Makowski, material first published in aviationreportdownunder.wordpress.com With Exercise Pitch Black 2024 now winding up we will place it in its context with some informed observations and quotations. Air Force ensured media had access to...