Trains to Planes in Rhode Island
The 2017 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show offered a “Trains to Planes” rail service to the air show venue, from a trio of easily accessible commuter rail stations. I took the train on the first...
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NORTHERN LIGHTNING 2017
You could easily miss its’ twenty three hundred acres, nine thousand foot runway and forty acres of ramp space when driving by on Interstate 90. We are referring to Volk Air National Guard Base located in west central Wisconsin,...
My Trip to the Walt Ray Memorial
A Helicopter Trip to the Walt Ray Memorial By Ray Nixon May 2017 I walked into the unparalleled Hahn’s World of Surplus in North Las Vegas looking for a Nomex flight jacket and some MRE’s for my aviation survival...
The Patrouille de France’s 2017 North American Tour is Complete!
After almost seven weeks, the Armee de l’Air (French Air Force) flight demonstration team, the Patrouille de France, has arrived back at their home base of Salon-de-Provence after an ambitious and enlightening North American Tour. The team of eight...
ATLANTIC TRIDENT 17 Sharpens the Cutting Edge
Photography by Howard German except where noted. Written by Ken Kula with Shirl Kula. Langley Air Force Base, Virginia was the site of a trilateral military aviation exercise featuring three long-time allies with cutting edge aircraft and systems. In...
Atlas Carries the Patrouille de France on Its Shoulders
Photos by Mike Colaner, except where noted Airbus Defense and Space builds the A-400M Atlas, a strategic military transport with tactical capabilities. The large four-engined turboprop acts like a turbojet in many ways. With only three dozen airframes operational...
World War I Aces Keep Flying
When the Patrouille de France travelled to North America in early 2017, they brought along a slice of French military aviation history with each of their Alpha Jets. All eleven of the trainers were emblazoned with a silhouette and...
NAS China Lake Airshow March 18-19, 2017
NAS China Lake located in Ridgecrest, CA just had its first air show in twenty years. The home squadrons, VX-9 Vampires and VX-31 Dust Devils, each had the various airframes from their squadrons on display including the F/A-18D Hornet,...
Street Signs and Bomb Runs
Some of us go down to the Outer Banks (OBX) of North Carolina. I go down to Duck, NC, on a narrow sliver of sand about an hour and a half south of Norfolk. The house where I...
Looking Over The Edge
by Keith “Rosey” Rosenkranz Aviators who’ve been to “the edge of the envelope” definitely know the name “Chuck Yeager.” On Oct. 14, 1947, the legendary test pilot became the first person to fly supersonic, breaking the so-called “sound barrier”...
2017 LA County Airshow
One show that definitely stands out each year is the LA County Airshow at Fox Field in Lancaster, California. With such a rich history of aviation testing and pioneers in the Antelope Valley, the setting couldn’t be better. In...
Patrouille de France Mather Field- Sacramento
The Patrouille de France flight demonstration team is currently flying a North American tour in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the United States entering World War I. They are the oldest flight demonstration team in the world...
