Category: Special Events

FORMATION JET TEAMS OF AIRVENTURE 2024

Story and photos by Scott Jankowski In another AirVenture first, 2024 featured appearances by 4 formation jet teams, the United States Navy Blue Angels, The United States Air Force Thunderbirds, the Italian Aerobatic Team the Freece Tricolori, and the...

F-15C Eagle 85-0104 – MiG Killer and Special Schemes

Story and photos by Ken Middleton This article covers F-15C Eagle 85-0104 during its last days of service. It finished with the 104th Fighter Wing / 131st Fighter Squadron, after arriving from Kadena Airbase in early 2023. The jet...

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...

Ultimate Harrier: The 2024 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show

Story by Shawn Byers, photos by Shawn Byers and Bryan T. Mangan I would have been here anyway, but the 2024 edition of the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Air Show was not to be missed. Among the...

RCAF 100th Part 1 – The First Five Decades

CANADAIR CE-133 SILVER STAR 1953 – 2005 Photographers include: Bob Finch, William Ellison, Ken Middleton, Scott Jankowski, Scott Zeno, Corey Beitler, Don Linn and Ken Kula The Royal Canadian Air Force celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2024. Here is...

Our Air Show Preview for 2022

Night photography, Thunder Over Michigan 2021 by Shawn Byers We’re planning our 2022 event campaign as the year changes on our wall calendars. Already, a pair of hoped-for military air shows have been cancelled this year. Undoubtedly there will...

The Human(-itarian) Side of 2021’s AirVenture

The EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 presented the theme of humanitarian-based aviation in a big way. There were a surprising number of aircraft and organizations present at the July event. The aircraft types ranged from heavy jet transports to a...

Remembering the First Airbus A-380 Arrival at KJFK

Airbus’s A-380 super-sized airliner was launched at the end of the year 2000. A little more than four years later, the first flight of a prototype occurred, on April 27, 2005. European and U.S. type certification occurred some twenty...

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