MY HOME TOWN AIRSHOW
My hometown of Milwaukee Wisconsin has held a free airshow along the lakefront for the past several years. This year’s airshow was held on July 20th and 21st and is always held over Bradford Beach which is adjacent...
Category: U.S. Navy
An Interview with Two Blue Angels – at Tampa’s MacDill Airfest
Interview and most questions by Nicole Cloutier. Additional questions by Mike Colaner On May 10th I had the pleasure of watching the Blue Angels arrive to Tampa before the MacDill Airfest. For this interview, I was assigned Blue...
A Salute to Veterans and Avengers
Illinois Valley Regional Airport (KVYS) also known as Walter A. Duncan Field is located approximately 1 mile from Peru IL. Illinois Valley Regional has 2 runways, runway 8/36 which is 6,000 feet long and Runway 7/25 which is...
Pax River Air Expo 2018
Naval Air Station Patuxent River is celebrating their 75th anniversary and held their Pax River Air Expo on June 2nd and 3rd, 2018. I attended the practice show on June 1st, which was well attended for an event not...
The 30th Fleet Week New York in 2018
The 30th “Fleet Week New York 2018” was celebrated from May 23rd through May 29th, 2018, all around New York City and there was actually an aviation component included with the participation of the “USS Arlington” (LPD-24), a 684-foot...
U.S. Military Aviation’s Half Century Club
There are a handful of aircraft designs that are approaching, or have already surpassed fifty years of service with various U.S. military users. Half a century of service speaks praises of the design’s utility and adaptability, as many designs...
THE 2017 NAS OCEANA AIR SHOW
Naval Air Station Oceana (NTU) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, had their big 2017 Air Show on September 16th and 17th 2017. The US Navy’s East Coast Master Jet Base, about a mile away from “Feet Wet” on the Atlantic...
Winds of Change to Standard Red Flag Operations.
In late January, the first of three planned Red Flag exercises for fiscal year 2018 kicked off at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. All four branches of the United States Armed Forces, as well as those...
“NAVSTANOR” — THE 100th ANNIVERSARY AIR SHOW AT NAS CHAMBERS FIELD, VIRGINIA
Grumman E-2D Hawkeye of VAW-123 “Chambers Field”, the Naval Air Station facility located within Naval Station Norfolk (NAVSTANOR), celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the flying component of the base with a fairly big but somewhat “secret” air show on...
You Can Go Home Again, Sort Of – Robert F. Lindley’s Fifty Second Anniversary Flight
Written By: Harry Ballance Photos by: Gerhard Frenz December 7 means different things to a lot of people. For those of a certain age it is most often associated with Pearl Harbor Day; the seminal event that drew...
Photographic Highlights From NAS Oceana’s 2017 Air Show
All Photography by Howard German The weekend of September 16th and 17th, 2017 was surely a noisy one for the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The annual air show at NAS Oceana roared through the skies, with a mix...
2017’s Wings Over Camarillo Air Show
Every August, a wonderful air show takes place at the Camarillo Airport in Camarillo, California. With beautiful blue skies, moderate temperatures, a nice cool sea breeze, and sunlight that stays behind you the entire show, this air show draws...
