OHTM’s 2017 “Rally” Event
Here’s a riddle: How many tires would there be in one place in Maine, if you gathered a half dozen aircraft and eighty vintage cars, motorcycles and trucks for an air and auto show? So far, so good? OK,...
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Westfield International Air Show 2017
The 104th Fighter Wing, “Barnstormers”, of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, are based at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport, near Springfield, Massachusetts. The Wing hosted a fabulous Air Show on Saturday and Sunday, August 11th and 12th. Springfield is known for...
EAA AirVenture 2017 Scrapbook from Oshkosh!
Here are a few photos from our team which attended the huge aviation party known as the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Keep in mind, this is just a small collection of thousands of photos taken during the week-long...
Thunderbirds Roar Over the Atlantic City Boardwalk in 2017
America’s Ambassadors in Blue, The United States Air Force Thunderbirds, arrived in New Jersey for Thunder Over The Boardwalk ahead of a rare North American celestial event. On Monday, August 21, 2017, the team arrived at Atlantic City International...
The Hidden Gem of the Narragansett Beach RI Air Show
The 2017 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show was held during the weekend of May 20-21st – a Saturday and Sunday event. A lesser-known preamble to the show is a gem of a presentation at nearby Narragansett...
The U.S. Air Force is Seventy Years Old
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird The United States Air Force will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of its founding on September 18, 2017. Seventy years of aviation history is hard to imagine, there is no way we could portray all of the individual...
My 2017 Pilgrimage
To some it is called AirVenture, others refer to it as EAA, for a few it is just plain Oshkosh. No matter what you refer to it as, to the Aviation Enthusiast it can be summed up in one...
U.S. Coast Guard – Florida
HC-144A tail number 2308 (c/n C179) shares the ramp at Air Station Miami with MH-65D tail number 6606 (c/n 6801) on August 31, 2008. The Dolphin is one of five produced by the Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center in...
Red Flag 17-3 Report
The first of two summer Red Flag exercises was held at Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada desert from July 10th to 28th. This iteration of Flag (RF 17-3) is the one RF training event of the year...
NASA WB-57Fs Track 2017’s Great Solar Eclipse
NASA WB-57F with payload, Credit: NASA’s Johnson Space Center/Norah Moran A high-flying pair of NASA-operated WB-57Fs flew in perfect formation with the sun and moon for close to seven minutes of total eclipse, during the great event of 2017 as it...
Aviation Assets Bring Aid to the Houston Area After Harvey’s Floods
U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana in late August of 2005, serves as a benchmark to compare responses to natural disasters in the United States. Twelve years later, Hurricane Harvey...
B-29 Superfortress: An Aircraft Ahead of its Time at the Right Time!
By George A. Haloulakos, MBA, CFA The Business Thinker – The Knowledge Magazine; Aug 6/9, 2017; www.businessthinker.com George A. Haloulakos, CFA, is a university instructor, author and entrepreneur [DBA Spartan Research and Consulting]. His published works utilize aviation as...
