Category: military

DAWN BLITZ 2015

Dawn Blitz is a multi-national exercise that takes place every other year, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and in the waters of the Pacific Ocean offshore from the base. This year’s exercise took place in the early weeks...

The Inaugural New York Air Show

Last minute changes forced show promoter Brian Lilly Co. to find a new venue for the 2015 New York Air Show. Originally scheduled for Coney Island Brooklyn NY, the promoters had just seventy-one days to manage all of the...

The Five Solo Military Demo Teams at the 2015 New York Air Show

The inaugural New York Air Show at the Stewart International Airport drew countless spectators on the strength of its flying schedule. Normally, an air show will draw large crowds if there’s a military multi-aircraft demonstration (sometimes known as a...

VMFAT-101 Visiting Long Beach Airport

The sound of military jets could be heard all over the city of Long Beach, California during the Labor Day weekend. The source of that sound was Marine Flight Attack Training Squadron VMFAT-101 know as “The Sharpshooters” based at...

33rd Annual Leapfest Competition

27 July to 2 August 2015 I attended the annual Leapfest competition, held at the University of Rhode Island, on 1 August 2015. I am fortunate that this event is only about 2 hours from me. For the background...

Singapore Eagles at DMAFB

Written By Wally “RIP” Van Winkle While the weather did not cooperate as well as it could have, the opportunity to visit with and photograph the Singapore Air Force F-15SGs at Davis-Monthan AFB was not worth passing up. The...

Bomber Jacket Book Project

John Slemp The man above is Captain Robert “Punchy” Powell, a P-51B pilot with the 352nd FG (with a record of 4 destroyed, 6 probable, and 7 damaged) who went back to College at West Virginia University after the...

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