2016 TICO Warbird Air Show
Story by Ken Kula As part of a group of aviation photographers in the 1980s, we used to have a saying that if it’s TICO, it must be Spring! After all, that top-notch warbird air show occurred at the...
Category: Transports
Seventy Years Strong: The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels
On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to represent the Navy at air...
Red Flag 16-1 Is “In the Books”
In 1975, the United States Air Force established an elite combat training exercise for all of its warfighters. Its purpose was to teach advanced tactics to maximize lethality, combat readiness, and survivability, and to ensure that the air crews...
C-160 Transall In the Air
The photography of Dietmar Schreiber/aviation-media.com The Transall C-160 was developed in the 1960s by the German-French consortium Transportation Alliance consisting of MBB, VFW-Fokker and Aerospatiale, as a tactical transport aircraft. The type designation of the high wing aircraft consists...
Dietmar and the Dove
The photography of Dietmar Schreiber/aviation-media.com During the Second World War, De Havilland was primarily known for the production of over 7700 Mosquitos. In 1943 De Havilland started to develop a successor for the DH89 Dragon Rapide, of which it...
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 Great State of Maine Air Show, Labor Day Weekend 2015
What a great way to celebrate a long holiday weekend – with an air show! The Great State of Maine Air Show, presented by the Airshow Network, was a two-day celebration held during the Labor Day weekend of 2015....
In the Back of Fat Albert
The Marines operate a Lockheed Martin C-130T Hercules as part of the storied Blue Angels Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron. Nicknamed Fat Albert, the four-engined tactical turboprop transport carries a mini-maintenance shop and the required non-piloting Blue Angels crew members...
The 2015 Great New England Air Show
Westover Air Reserve Base Fetes 75 Years of Operations The sky over western Massachusetts, at the foot of the Berkshires, was filled with the sights and sounds of the Great New England Air Show in mid May, 2015. The...
The Arsenal of Democracy: World War II Victory Capitol Flyover
An amazing salute to a rapidly disappearing group of living military veterans occurred on Friday May 8, 2015, when the world witnessed the Arsenal of Democracy: World War II Victory Capitol Flyover (henceforth known here as the “Flyover”). As...
