No Place Like Oshkosh
It’s about that time again… EAA AirVenture, 2018! I’m so ready for everything “Oshkosh!” This will be my sixth year attending and by many standards, that still makes me a rookie. There’s still so much I’m sure I haven’t...
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Airpower Over Hampton Roads 2018
The 2018 edition of Airpower over Hampton Roads was held at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, May 18th through the 20th. The weather forecast for the area was awful due to a stalled front. Due to the rain...
MCAS Cherry Point Air Show 2018
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.” – Ronald Reagan. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point held their bi-annual air show May 4th through...
The Yarram Centenary of Flight
Paul Bennet (Paul Bennet Airshows) turns on another fine performance in his Wolf Pitts Pro, backed by the Wall of Fire. The Yarram Centenary of Flight on 17.3.2018 celebrated 100 years of flight in Yarram, in particular the...
U.S. Military Aviation’s Half Century Club
There are a handful of aircraft designs that are approaching, or have already surpassed fifty years of service with various U.S. military users. Half a century of service speaks praises of the design’s utility and adaptability, as many designs...
SEARCHING FOR WARBIRDS IN WALT DISNEY WORLD
Story and photos by Bill Sarama, except where noted on photos I had the recent good fortune to be invited to stay at a Vacation House with some friends on the property at Walt Disney World near Orlando Florida...
Red Flag 18-2 Review
The second of three scheduled Red Flag exercises for fiscal year ’18, (RF 18-2) concluded on March 23, 2018. Red Flag is the United State’s premier air combat exercise and is coordinated at Nellis Air Force Base near Las...
A Unique Partnership
In 2009 a unique partnership was formed between Milwaukee Wisconsin’s General Mitchell International Airport and Airbus headquartered in Toulouse France. This agreement has seen Airbus use Milwaukee as a base of operations to cold weather test quite a few...
The Ghost Rider at Oshkosh 2017
EAA’s AirVenture, held at Oshkosh Wisconsin, has to be the longest continuously running aviation event in the world, dating back to September 1953 (as a part of the Milwaukee Air Pageant, at the now Timmerman Field). America’s longest serving...
Joint Exercise “Chesapeake 2018”
In December of 2015 the American and French militaries began discussions on the possibility of deploying Marine Nationale (French Navy) Dassault Rafale M fighters and a Northrup Grumman E-2C Hawkeye from a United States Navy Nimitz-class carrier. The planned...
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 had a fabulous Air Show...
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 the (army’s) Royal Flying Corps...
