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F-35 Lightning II Program Update

Joint Base Andrews F-35 Press Conference Following the September 2015 Friday practice show; the media was invited to attend a press conference hosted by Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, F-35 Program Executive Officer Lt. Gen. Christopher C. Bogdan...

FAREWELL FLIGHT

FAREWELL FLIGHT by Capt. William R. Tymczyszyn I hoped we’d fly together again someday, but I didn’t know just when. Then a sense of something special came over me, as I released the brakes on our venerable DC-10 and...

Joint Base Andrews 2015 Air Show

Government budget cuts and a federal sequestration precipitated a four year suspension to the Joint Base Andrews air show. Returning with renewed enthusiasm, the theme for 2015 was “America’s Airfield: Celebrating History, Celebrating Freedom.” The celebration was an opportunity...

NAS Fallon and TOP GUN/NSAWC

The airfield at Naval Air Station Fallon is named in honor of Lieutenant Van Voorhis (1908-1943), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. NAS Fallon is located in northern Nevada, east of the city of Reno. Three runways (2135 m...

C-160 Transall In the Air

The photography of Dietmar Schreiber/aviation-media.com The Transall C-160 was developed in the 1960s by the German-French consortium Transportation Alliance consisting of MBB, VFW-Fokker and Aerospatiale, as a tactical transport aircraft. The type designation of the high wing aircraft consists...

Dietmar and the Dove

The photography of Dietmar Schreiber/aviation-media.com During the Second World War, De Havilland was primarily known for the production of over 7700 Mosquitos. In 1943 De Havilland started to develop a successor for the DH89 Dragon Rapide, of which it...

DAWN BLITZ 2015

Dawn Blitz is a multi-national exercise that takes place every other year, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and in the waters of the Pacific Ocean offshore from the base. This year’s exercise took place in the early weeks...

30th Annual Simsbury Fly-In and Car Show

An entertaining and educational day spent at the Fly-In, but are storm clouds on the horizon? The Simsbury Flying Club presented its 30th Annual Fly-In and Car Show on the third Sunday of September, 2015. Three decades of fly-ins...

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