Year of the Tanker
One of the main themes of AirVenture 2018 was a salute to the often over looked Aerial Refueler better known as the Tanker. EAA assembled an impressive array of front line United States Air Force, United States Air...
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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...
Thunder of Niagara 2018
I am proud to present the Thunder of Niagara Airshow held June 9th and 10th, 2018 at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. This airshow is a coming home for me as I grew up just south of this...
Pax River Air Expo 2018
Naval Air Station Patuxent River is celebrating their 75th anniversary and held their Pax River Air Expo on June 2nd and 3rd, 2018. I attended the practice show on June 1st, which was well attended for an event not...
REPUBLIC AIRPORT – THE OTHER LONG ISLAND AIR SHOW!
Jones Beach, on the Ocean in Long Island near New York City, just had its big Memorial Day Weekend Air Show on Saturday and Sunday, May 26th and 27th, 2018. The Jones Beach air show was officially called the...
Airpower Over Hampton Roads 2018
The 2018 edition of Airpower over Hampton Roads was held at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, May 18th through the 20th. The weather forecast for the area was awful due to a stalled front. Due to the rain...
Red Flag 18-2 Review
The second of three scheduled Red Flag exercises for fiscal year ’18, (RF 18-2) concluded on March 23, 2018. Red Flag is the United State’s premier air combat exercise and is coordinated at Nellis Air Force Base near Las...
The Ghost Rider at Oshkosh 2017
EAA’s AirVenture, held at Oshkosh Wisconsin, has to be the longest continuously running aviation event in the world, dating back to September 1953 (as a part of the Milwaukee Air Pageant, at the now Timmerman Field). America’s longest serving...
Joint Exercise “Chesapeake 2018”
In December of 2015 the American and French militaries began discussions on the possibility of deploying Marine Nationale (French Navy) Dassault Rafale M fighters and a Northrup Grumman E-2C Hawkeye from a United States Navy Nimitz-class carrier. The planned...
THE 2017 ANDREWS AIR SHOW
The “2017 Joint Base Andrews Air Show – Breaking Barriers for 70 Years – Featuring the Thunderbirds and the Golden Knights” – was held on Saturday and Sunday, September 16 – 17, 2017. Andrews had a fabulous Air Show...
The Yarram Centenary of Flight Celebrates One Hundred Years of Flight In Yarram
“Invasion Stripes” on new RAAF trainers? On a superb day at Yarram in Gippsland, country Victoria, Royal Australian Air Force Pilatus PC-21s were today demonstrated to the general public. Shown in 2FTS, Pearce WA markings, these are some of...
Blue Flag 2017 Dissimilar Air Combat Over The Negev
The Israeli air force international training program has become in the last years to be fully and reach in deployments and collaborations that took the force to all kind of new lands on the globe and welcome new guests...
