Just north of the famous Las Vegas strip sits Nellis Air Force Base, ‘Home of the Warfighter’. Several training exercises are held here each year, but by far the largest and most well known is Red Flag. Red Flag...
On June 6th, a group of aircraft collectively known as the D-Day Squadron will make history when they will mark the 75th Anniversary of ‘Operation Overlord’, the D-Day invasion of Europe. A group of volunteers will make a legendary...
The U.S. Navy’s ‘Blue Angels’ caught nearly everyone by surprise when they announced on May 22nd of this year that their U.S. Marine Corps Lockheed Martin KC-130T Hercules (BuNo 164763 / CN 5258) affectionately known as ‘Fat Albert’ was...
(All photos via Joe Kates) Shock and Awe!!!!!!!!! I am in total shock having received the news of the loss of my good friend and “brother” Mark Hrutkay. At the same time I am in TOTAL AWE of...
Air Tahiti Nui A-340-300 At the big Paris Air Show of 1969, a collaboration between two countries with rich aviation histories signaled the beginning of what is known today as the Airbus company. Fifty years later, in 2019, Airbus...
Northrop Grumman retired their last British Aerospace Corporation (BAC) One-Eleven (1-11) Testbed as well as the last flying example of a BAC 1-11 in the world on May 6th, 2019. Takeoff on Runway 28 occurred shortly after 1:30 PM....
March 8th and 9th, 2019 Marine Corps Air Station Yuma kicked off the west coast air show season March 8th with a two-day air show event. Since 1962, the Yuma Airshow has been a hallmark event for MCAS Yuma...
We have lost one of our own here at Photorecon.net (and ClassicWarbirds.net and CivilAviationWorld.com and Motorecon.net). Editor, writer and photographer Mark Hrutkay passed away unexpectedly on May 10, 2019 at age 59. Although many people have seen his fantastic...
A week-long travelling road show (well, actually a travelling air show) began a five-state presentation at Rhode Island’s Quonset State Airport on May 6th, 2019. The event took a multi-faceted approach to hurricane preparedness; it offered education on the...
This is Part 3 of a multi-part history of the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18 Hornet/Super Hornet… more to come next month! The US Navy then looked for an actual successor to the aged Grumman F-14 Tomcat, and in 1992 It placed...
One of the first air shows of the year is held at Naval Air Facility El Centro in the Imperial Valley. In addition, NAF El Centro has long been the winter training home of the United States Navy Demonstration...
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base hosted their bi-annual airshow, Wings Over Wayne (WOW) on April 27th and 28th. The 4th Fighter Wing and the 916th Air Refueling Wing were the hosts and the show was located on the 916th...
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