Hawgsmoke 2016
BBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTT!!! The angry growl is thunderous as it echoes across the Arizona desert. There is no warning, no hint of the impending fury. Just the sudden crackle of 30mm shells in the air as they pass our position on...
Category: U.S. Air Force
Still Kicking After 50 Years
North American Aviation/Rockwell’s OV-10 Bronco won a U.S. military competition for a Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (LARA) which was announced in 1963. The LARA requirements included improvements over the current observation aircraft of the period, namely Cessna O-1 Bird...
Chino’s Planes Of Fame Airshow, 2016 Edition
As many shows as I go to each year, there are none I look forward to more than the Planes of Fame Airshow in Chino, California. The POF museum boasts an incredible collection of flyable aircraft. During their annual...
2016 Power in the Pines Open House and Air Show
The nation’s only tri-service military base, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, held its biennial Power in the Pines Open House and Air Show during the weekend of May 14th and 15th, 2016. The sprawling 42,000 acre base was...
Atlantic City Air Show 2015
For the thirteenth time in thirteen years; on September 2nd, the Atlantic City skyline, boardwalk and beach were buzzing with the sound of propellers and rocked by thunderous jet noise. Since its inception, this venue has always been headlined...
Air Power Over Hampton Roads – 2016
Langley Air Show 2016, Celebrating One Hundred Years of Air Power over Hampton, VA 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of Langley Field. To commemorate a century of Langley’s history, Joint Base Langley-Eustis hosted an open house on April 22-24...
LA County Airshow 2016
The Los Angeles County Airshow sprang back to life on March 19th and 20th at William J. Fox Field in Lancaster, California. Lancaster is approximately 75 miles north of Los Angeles in the Mojave desert, and is home...
Luke Days, 2016
In 1941, Luke Field opened with the mission of training the finest fighter pilots in the world. Now called the “Home of the Fighter Pilot”, Luke continues to instill upon the next generation of Air Force Airman the required...
Red Flag 16-2 Stresses Coalition Partnership
Red Flag is the United States Air Force’s premier training exercise conducted inside the Nevada Test and Training Range in the Nevada desert. The NTTR has the largest air and ground space anywhere in the free world to conduct...
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...
Tampa Bay AirFest, 2016
Photos by Bob Finch, story by Bob Finch with Ken Kula The year 2016 marks three quarters of a century after the United States began its buildup of armed forces, when its’ leaders saw that the country would most...
PCA’s Shortcut To The World From Pease
The fixed base operator at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease (identifier KPSM) displays an interesting phrase on the side of their fuel trucks… observing that Pease is a “shortcut to the world”. Port City Air (PCA) is the...
