The time period is June 1917, the location Belleville Illinois, located roughly 25 miles to the East of St. Louis Missouri. Construction begins on the then-known Scott Field, named after Corporal Frank Scott, the first enlisted person killed in...
Having served in the military I must say that I have never visited a ‘military town’ like Goldsboro in Wayne County, North Carolina. This town loves Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and the jet noise it brings. From the...
Some of us go down to the Outer Banks (OBX) of North Carolina. I go down to Duck, NC, on a narrow sliver of sand about an hour and a half south of Norfolk. The house where I...
One show that definitely stands out each year is the LA County Airshow at Fox Field in Lancaster, California. With such a rich history of aviation testing and pioneers in the Antelope Valley, the setting couldn’t be better. In...
Red Flag is America’s premier training exercise for today’s warfighters. Originally developed to improve our nation’s air to air kill ratio during Vietnam, it has grown into much more than strictly air to air tactics. Red Flag 17-2, which...
Avalon 2017 was characterised by the involvement of the Australian Defence Force – led by RAAF – the Royal Australian Air Force. Avalon provides the alternate venue for the ADF’s airshow presence. Air Force’s Plan Jericho, now well established,...
QF-4E 74-1638 warming up! Photos by Scott Zeno and Alice Leong The U.S. Air Force retired its final McDonnell Douglas/Boeing QF-4 Phantom IIs on December 21, 2016. The jets were the last of the line… more than four thousand...
Photographic coverage by: Joe Kates, Ulrich Seibicke, Scott Jankowski, Mark Hrutkay, Beau Goff, Bob Shane, Alice Leong and Scott Zeno. Story by Ken Kula with Steve Lewis After 53 years of service and having five main versions of the...
As I board the bus to head over to the media briefing and interview panel, I can’t help but think about how incredibly fortunate I am to be able to be a part of Red Flag Media Day 17-1....
USAF F-35As were the highlight and most interesting participant of the Red Flag 17-1 exercise, which took place from 23 January to 10 February 2017. The F-35As came from the 34th FS of the 388th FW of the Hill Air...
The famous Red Flag exercises includes refueling flights for training and support, usually with the KC-135 Stratotanker. A typical Red Flag mission includes three KC-135 aircraft, although often more aircraft are deployed to have airspares. One tanker is for the Red Forces...
Our tanker mission (Callsign “Gulf 17”) included the refuelling of four F-15C/D (Callsigns “Flanker 1 – 4” and six F-16C (Callsigns “Ivan 1 – 4”) of the 65th and 64th AGRS from Nellis AFB, Nevada. The mission was planned...
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