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7 Apr, 2018

THE 2017 ANDREWS AIR SHOW

The “2017 Joint Base Andrews Air Show – Breaking Barriers for 70 Years – Featuring the Thunderbirds and the Golden Knights” – was held on Saturday and Sunday, September 16 – 17, 2017. Andrews...

Centennial celebration / europe / Special Aviation Events / Special Events

31 Mar, 2018

Royal Air Force is One Hundred Years Old

The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force (RAF) celebrates its’ one hundredth anniversary on April 1, 2018. Formed during the latter part of the First World War, it came into being through the merging of...

Australia / military / Special Events / Trainers

21 Mar, 2018

The Yarram Centenary of Flight Celebrates One Hundred Years of Flight In Yarram

“Invasion Stripes” on new RAAF trainers? On a superb day at Yarram in Gippsland, country Victoria, Royal Australian Air Force Pilatus PC-21s were today demonstrated to the general public. Shown in 2FTS, Pearce WA...

Airshow / U.S. Air Force / USAF Thunderbirds / warbirds

21 Mar, 2018

Aviation Nation Air and Space Expo Celebrates USAF 70th Anniversary at Nellis AFB 2017

This year’s Aviation Nation Air & Space Expo celebrated the 70th anniversary of the United States Air Force with exhibitions and demonstrations you hardly see at an aviation exhibition. For the first time at...

Air Transports / Airliners / Special Aviation Events

17 Mar, 2018

Long, Trim and Deluxe: The A350-1000XWB Debuts in Australia

At about the time Photorecon heard the newest in Airbus’s illustrious stable was visiting Australia, we needed little prodding to fly interstate for a mixed media demonstration and spotting trip. As the A350-1000XWB is...

Exercises / fighters / Red Flag / Trainers / U.S. Air Force

10 Mar, 2018

Red Flag 18-1- Fighting With Close Allies

All content by Peter Boschert, except where noted. Red Flag 18-1 took place at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada from 26th of January to the 16th of February 2018. Next to the more...

Airshow / fighters / U.S. Navy

5 Mar, 2018

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...

Base Visits / Red Flag / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

1 Mar, 2018

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...

Base Visits / Exercises / fighters / friends / military / post

23 Feb, 2018

Blue Flag 2017 Dissimilar Air Combat Over The Negev

The Israeli air force international training program has become in the last years to be fully and reach in deployments and collaborations that took the force to all kind of new lands on the...

Air Transports / featured

22 Feb, 2018

There’s a New Bird in New Hampshire’s Skies

The first PC-24 on display at the PlaneSense Headquarters in New Hampshire There’s a new bird in the air over the New Hampshire Seacoast region, and soon it’ll be spreading its wings across America....

Airshow / Helicopters / Special Aviation Events / U.S. Navy

8 Feb, 2018

“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...

Boeing / Transports / U.S. Air Force

3 Feb, 2018

What do Floyd Bennett, A Boeing C-97, and The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation Have in Common?

On November 7, 2017, Floyd Bennett Field (KNOP) in Brooklyn, New York witnessed its last scheduled fixed wing flight departure fly off into history. Floyd Bennett Field has seen the likes of famous aviators...