Another Great Day at Sea
New York Fleet Week 2017 “Another Great Day At Sea – Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush” was an excellent book by Geoff Dyer, that came out in 2014 and described in great detail his two week...
Category: U.S. Navy
NAS China Lake Airshow March 18-19, 2017
NAS China Lake located in Ridgecrest, CA just had its first air show in twenty years. The home squadrons, VX-9 Vampires and VX-31 Dust Devils, each had the various airframes from their squadrons on display including the F/A-18D Hornet,...
Street Signs and Bomb Runs
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...
RED FLAG 17-1 MEDIA DAY
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....
NAS Oceana, VA Air Show 2016
The September 10th and 11th open house recognized the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 and honored those who lost their lives in the attack on our nation by radical Islamic terrorists. With especially tight security, show-goers were required to pass...
2016 New York Air Show
Riding high from a successful 2015 show, promoter Brian Lilly Co. was excited to announce their second annual New York Air Show. Nestled in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, some of the nation’s top military and civilian air...
Aviation Nation Roars Back to Life at Nellis AFB
After a one year hiatus due to a base inspection, 2016’s Aviation Nation roared back to life in the Nevada desert just north of the famous Las Vegas strip. Approximately 300,000 visitors entered the bases over the span of...
Air Show Season Starts Early in Maine This Year
The next Great State of Maine Air Show (GSMAS) will occur at Brunswick Executive Airport on August 26th and 27th, 2017. Believe it or not, the show production has already begun, some nine months before the big summer weekend....
Baltimore’s Autumn Air Show in the Park
Story and Photos by Daniel O. Myers For those in the Northeast United States; falling leaves, cooler temperatures and shorter days denote the end of another air show season as formations of Canadian geese take flight, heading south for...
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II Set to Retire From U.S. Military Service
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is one of those rare breeds of aircraft design that has served with the U.S. military for over half a century. The first flight of a prototype occurred on May 27, 1958. In...
Just A “Few” C-9s Remain in Military Service
The U.S. Marine Corps recruiting slogan: “The Few. The Proud. The Marines.” has a secondary meaning these days… the Marines operate the last pair of some 57 McDonnell Douglas/Boeing DC-9/C-9 military jet transports. The C-9/DC-9 family has been used...
AirShow London’s Arrival Day Spectacular
Every once in a while, the moon and the stars are aligned just right, and things fall together on an air show arrival day that maxes out the “Fun Meter”. Close to ten hours of aviation excitement unfolded on...
