Ken Kula’s Favorite 15
Convair QF-106As being assembled as QF-106A Full Scale Aerial Targets (FSATs) at Tucson’s Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).
Photos by Ken Kula
From time to time, most of our contributors will share a group (some more than one) of fifteen of their favorite aviation photographs on our pages at Photorecon.net. Here are some of my very favorite military aircraft photos, with a little bit of background information on each one.
USAF Rockwell B-1B arriving over the lights at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
USAF’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC) Demo Flight break-up.
Royal Air Force Canberra bomber/trainer departs FRAF Fairford during a Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) performance.
U.S. Marine Corps helicopter formation flyby during the Centennial of Naval Aviation show at NAS North Island, California.
Any time you can see the top of a wing on a transport aircraft, it’s a photo-bonus! U.S. Navy C-9B in a fly-by during the CONA celebration at NAS North Island.
U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowlers’ pre-flight activity during a Red Flag Exercise at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada.
U. S. Navy F-14D Super Tomcat during the type’s final flying performance at NAS Oceana, Virginia.
USAF F-15E Strike Eagle’s photo pass during an Open Dagen at the RNLAF Leeuwarden base, in the Netherlands.
USAF Lockheed F-117A lands after a Red Flag sortie at Nellis AFB, Nevada.
USAF KC-10A Extender pulling up to a Maine Air National Guard KC-135R during refueling operations on AR0204 over Western Maine.
Orange Flight of the Royal Netherlands Air Force… F-16A MLU and AH-64D Apache during an Airshow Radom event at the air base in Poland.
Pre-flighting a USAF QF-4E FSAT at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
USAF T-38As from Langley AFB, Virginia (FF = “First Fighter” Wing) and Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15C tails.
A Royal Australian Air Force RF-111C performs a “dump and burn” at an Avalon, Victoria, Australia air show.
