A Look Back… Scott Jankowski’s 2016 in Review
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...
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Flying Gas Station of the USAF during Red Flag 13-1 and 13-2 (Blue Forces)
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...
Glendale Airport 30 years strong
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...
Atlantic City 2016 Air Show
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...
Flying Gas Station of the USAF during Red Flag 12-3 (Red Forces)
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...
Fire Air Assets Ready for Summer
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....
ASV Airshow of the Year Award” goes to the Breitling Huntington Beach Airshow
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...
RAAF Boeing P-8 Poseidon Delivered At RAAF Base Edinburgh
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...
F-15 Eagles in Europe
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...
NAS Oceana, VA Air Show 2016
The September 10th and 11th open house recognized the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 and honored those who lost their lives in the attack on our nation by radical Islamic terrorists. With especially tight security, show-goers were required to pass...
2016 New York Air Show
Riding high from a successful 2015 show, promoter Brian Lilly Co. was excited to announce their second annual New York Air Show. Nestled in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, some of the nation’s top military and civilian air...
Aviation Nation Roars Back to Life at Nellis AFB
After a one year hiatus due to a base inspection, 2016’s Aviation Nation roared back to life in the Nevada desert just north of the famous Las Vegas strip. Approximately 300,000 visitors entered the bases over the span of...
