LA County Airshow 2016
The Los Angeles County Airshow sprang back to life on March 19th and 20th at William J. Fox Field in Lancaster, California. Lancaster is approximately 75 miles north of Los Angeles in the Mojave desert, and is home...
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Luke Days, 2016
In 1941, Luke Field opened with the mission of training the finest fighter pilots in the world. Now called the “Home of the Fighter Pilot”, Luke continues to instill upon the next generation of Air Force Airman the required...
Dion Makowski’s View: 2016 Tyabb Air Show
Americans must sometimes find it intriguing when they discover how many interesting US-built warbirds find their way “downunder”. Tyabb Airshow is held Biannually at Mornington Peninsula Airport, near Melbourne. Part air-show, part fly-in, this event attracts some of the...
Welcome To Oshkosh
In the next few weeks, I will find my three sons eagerly setting up a tent in my living room. I will witness smiles on their faces and listen to the laughter our whole neighborhood will be able to...
European Air Forces at Red Flag
The well-known Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas in Nevada, are not only used by their sponsor, the United States Air Force (USAF), but by many armed forces. With multinational operations more common in...
Coast Guard Aviation at 100 Years: A Century In Harm’s Way, Part 2
This is the second of a two part series on the centennial of Coast Guard Aviation. To see the other article, which covers the years earlier than this article, click here. By 1966 the Coast Guard had been in the...
Red Flag 16-2 Stresses Coalition Partnership
Red Flag is the United States Air Force’s premier training exercise conducted inside the Nevada Test and Training Range in the Nevada desert. The NTTR has the largest air and ground space anywhere in the free world to conduct...
2016 TICO Warbird Air Show
Story by Ken Kula As part of a group of aviation photographers in the 1980s, we used to have a saying that if it’s TICO, it must be Spring! After all, that top-notch warbird air show occurred at the...
Tampa Bay AirFest, 2016
Photos by Bob Finch, story by Bob Finch with Ken Kula The year 2016 marks three quarters of a century after the United States began its buildup of armed forces, when its’ leaders saw that the country would most...
Les Neistat’s View: Tyabb, Australian Air Show
The biennial Tyabb Airshow took place this year, and while always well attended, this year saw it exceed expectations with a crowd of approximately 15,000. A clear highlight of the show was Graham Hosking’s Chance Vought F4U-5N (VH-III) Honduran...
Seventy Years Strong: The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels
On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to represent the Navy at air...
PCA’s Shortcut To The World From Pease
The fixed base operator at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease (identifier KPSM) displays an interesting phrase on the side of their fuel trucks… observing that Pease is a “shortcut to the world”. Port City Air (PCA) is the...
