2016’s Summer of Flags
From July 11-29, and from August 15-26, 2016, the United States Air Force’s 414th Combat Training Squadron hosted a pair of ‘Red Flag’ exercises at Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada....
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Pitch Black 2016, Part 2 – Operations
Run over the first three weeks of August, Exercise Pitch Black 2016 ran a “Media Embed Program” for the benefit of local and international media organisations, during the exercise. PHOTORECON was privileged to be...
Pitch Black 2016, Part 1
“PITCHING IN” Air Operations during Exercise Pitch Black 2016 This story begins in a secluded bush block near Darwin Airport – DRW/YPDN (Northern Territory, Australia) with barely a puff of breeze caressing the long,...
United States Navy East Coast Hornet Demo Team
United States Navy East Coast Hornet Demo Team 2016 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Airshow The United States Navy East Coast Hornet Demo Team is based at Naval Air Station Oceana, in...
VMAT-203 Hawks, Teaching the Ways of the Marine Corps Harrier
More than 40 years ago, Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 began fielding the Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier, in preparation for the Marines’ transition from A-4 Skyhawks to Harriers as their frontline attack jet. VMAT-203,...
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...
MCAS Cherry Point’s 75th Anniversary Air Show
Over the last weekend in April 2016, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in the town of Havelock North Carolina, offered their 75th Anniversary Air Show. The last three quarters of a century has seen...
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...
The Disestablishment and a Brief History of the VMAQT-1 Banshees
Oxford Dictionary defines the word “disestablish” as: dis·es·tab·lish, [disəˈstabliSH] vb. “deprive (an organization, especially a country’s national church) of its official status.” In military aviation, a disestablishment likely means that the squadron’s current operations,...
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...
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...
NAS Fallon and TOP GUN/NSAWC
The airfield at Naval Air Station Fallon is named in honor of Lieutenant Van Voorhis (1908-1943), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. NAS Fallon is located in northern Nevada, east of the...
