Photos by Jim West and the author John Alcock and Arthur Brown, Louis Bleriot, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Samson, Charles Kingsford Smith, Harriet Quimby, Charles Manly, Amelia Earhart and Hubert Latham were all pioneering aviators with a common interest –...
Ken Kula’s Highlights for 2016 Military Aviation: Covered the departure of multiple Italian Air Force flight movements from the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, New Hampshire. In all, saw Eurofighter EF-2000s, a KC-767, Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft, and...
Simsbury Delivers Easy Going, Early Autumn Fly-In Photos by Scott Zeno and Alice Leong The Simsbury Flying Club, plus a host of other local organizations, held their 31st annual Fly-In at central Connecticut’s Simsbury Airport on September 25, 2016....
A Look Back….. By Scott Jankowski As we prepare to welcome 2017 and bid farewell to 2016, I stop to look back on what a year 2016 truly was. It was another spectacular year of time spent at airshows...
The famous Red Flag exercises includes refueling flights for training and support, usually with the KC-135 Stratotanker. A typical Red Flag mission includes three KC-135 aircraft, although often more aircraft are deployed to have airspares. One tanker is for the Red Forces...
The weather is changing along with the length of the day… this can only mean the holiday season is upon us. For aviation photojournalists, this also means that their air show and aviation event world, as a whole, becomes as quiet...
In the midst of one the east coast’s hottest summers on record, the sixteenth annual mid-week Atlantic City, NJ “Thunder over the Boardwalk Air Show” provided some cool relief with a hot air show. High above the boardwalk, the...
Our tanker mission (Callsign “Gulf 17”) included the refuelling of four F-15C/D (Callsigns “Flanker 1 – 4” and six F-16C (Callsigns “Ivan 1 – 4”) of the 65th and 64th AGRS from Nellis AFB, Nevada. The mission was planned...
What isn’t generally realised is that by the time of the disastrous and deadly 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, Australia already had a nascent but established response to more effectively share aerial fire fighting resources where they were needed most....
Our Partner site Airshowvid .com has awarded their 2016 “Airshow of the Year Award”, for the most unique airshow in 2016. This honor goes to the Breitling Huntington Beach Airshow for unique location, a flawless inaugural event, awesome headline...
PHOTORECON was present for the arrival ceremony for the Boeing P-8A Poseidon to RAAF Base Edinburgh (north of Adelaide, South Australia) on 25th November. A Welcome to Country ceremony was performed for the P-8 by a small indigenous dance...
The F-15 Eagle, probably the best air superiority fighter ever built, made its first flight in 1972. One thousand eight hundred seventeen Eagles were built for the United States Air Force: F-15A 384 F-15B 61 F-15C 483 F-15D 92 F-15E...
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