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...
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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...
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 markings, these are some of...
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 an airshow, the F-35A Lightning...
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 yet to visit the American...
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 or less usual aviation units...
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 “Feet Wet” on the Atlantic...
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 Forces, as well as those...
