The Mig-29 and its pilots were ready to resume test flights as soon as the weather improved. The test flights require visual conditions and the pilots require better than visual minimums as the aircraft has flown less than an...
On January 28, 2011, Photorecon was invited to fly with the 147th Air Refueling Squadron in support of Red Flag 11-2. Our mission was to refuel 5 F-16 aggressors that were participating in the exercise. We would be flying...
On January 25, 2011, Nellis Air Force Base Public Affairs hosted a media day for Red Flag 11-2. Photorecon attended along with 38 other aviation photographers from all over the nation. Since 1975, Red Flag exercises have been taking...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.historicflight.org Mukilteo, WA, January 23rd 2011 – A former Ukranian MiG-29 fighter has become the second privately owned MiG-29 to fly, taking to the air over Washington six years after it left Eastern Europe. Capable of...
We have been following our friend Mike “MAJ” McDougall of Fighting Classics, as he and the crew have been working to build/fly the TA-4J N518TA. The aircraft is done and looking great. We had arranged to come out and take...
The retirement of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)’s General Dynamics F-111s marked the end of service for an extraordinary aircraft design. The RAAF’s F-111 fighter-bombers served for 37 years in Australia’s defense, until December 3, 2010 when the...
The Centennial of Naval Aviation is a historic milestone. From its humble beginning in 1911, the Navy’s flight program has grown to become a guardian of freedom for America and its allies. It has succeeded because of the hard...
The old English proverb that “all [good] things must come to an end…” sums up what occurs every November at NAS Pensacola Florida. The 2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow was the latest of a long line of grand finales...
On November 5, approximately 40 photographers drove two hours east of San Diego for a photocall on one of the country’s most active air fields. Naval Air Facility El Centro was first commissioned on May 1, 1946. Over the...
The largest free public event in Nevada returned to Nellis Air Force Base Nov. 13-14 when the U.S. Air Force hosted Aviation Nation 2010– the Nellis Air Force Base Open House and annual Las Vegas air show. Aviation Nation...
Whoever wrote those song lyrics “it never rains in southern California” had it wrong (trivia answer below)… I fought rain for the first hour and a half of a three hour drive from San Diego CA to Yuma, AZ. ...
The Miramar Airshow for 2010 was an experience unlike any other airshow I have attended for Photorecon for two reasons. First, I was invited to attend the Media Flight Day on Thursday (the day before the airshow officially began)...
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