Bomber Jacket Book Project
John Slemp The man above is Captain Robert “Punchy” Powell, a P-51B pilot with the 352nd FG (with a record of 4 destroyed, 6 probable, and 7 damaged) who went back to College at West Virginia University after the...
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The Murphy’s Memorial Day Weekend 2015 Formation Clinic
Over the Memorial Day weekend I had the good fortune of being invited out to Murphy’s Landing Strip in Upstate New York for a formation clinic. The event was hosted by Dave, Lois, and Mark Murphy owner/operators of the...
Palmer Base Expands Operations For the Alaskan Sockeye and Card Street Fires
Monday, June 15, 2015 was a newsworthy day in the town of Willow, Alaska, about a two hour drive north of Anchorage. The nearby wildfire, known as the Sockeye Fire to forestry and firefighting personnel, had grown alarmingly fast...
Millville NJ’s 2015 Wings and Wheels Air Show
Subject to inclement weather, heightened security concerns or performer cancellations, putting on an air show can be a risky venture. In 2011, without a presenting sponsor, The Millville Army Air Field Museum took on the financial responsibility of putting...
A Behind the Scenes Look at the 2015 RCAF CF-18 Demonstration Team
It’s one of the more anticipated acts of the air show. As the CF-188 leaves the chocks, pulls out of the ramp area and taxis to the runway, heads turn to admire the jets’ magnificent paint scheme- a mural...
Planeside With the Breitling Jet Team
It’s rare to see a foreign jet team perform at U.S. air shows, especially one making its North American debut. The team’s original schedule called for nineteen show sites, each selected where The Breitling Company has a strong market...
North Kingstown, RI Quonset Point ANG Base Air Show 2015
Right on time; a banking, tight, two-ship section of Rhode Island Air National Guard C-130-Js came screaming in from crowd right to the conclusion of an inspiring rendition of the National Anthem. Back-dropped by the natural grandeur of the...
Cutting Edge Interoperability Honed at Northern Edge 2015
Large scale live training and experimentation between two or more branches of American military service – Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Air Force – is a rare opportunity in the real world. Demonstrating interoperability is most often...
Photrecon contributing editor Doug Aguillard Featured in Combat Aircraft Magazine
Congratulations to Photorecon contributing editor Doug Aguillard. Doug’s report is featured in the June 2015 issue of Combat Aircraft Magazine. The article, that also appears here on our site is a look at the history of VMFA-323 ‘Death Rattlers’ including a...
B-52 STRIKE ON IRAQ
January 16, 1991; 1900 Hours: “We’re going!” That simple announcement from “Moondog,” our radar navigator, triggered a flurry of activity. We were going to war with Iraq. Jamming last-minute gear into our helmet bags and survival kits, we jumped...
Rhode Island Air Show Hits Jet Team Trifecta
The on-line dictionary Encarta defines the word trifecta like this: “1. bet on first 3 in race …a bet… that involves selecting the competitors that will come in the first three places in the correct order. 2. set of...
The Royal Canadian Air Force Commemorates The “Few” In Style
The Battle of Britain occurred 75 years ago, and numerous events to commemorate that epic battle are taking place around the world in 2015. Winston Churchill described the airmen that fought their German Luftwaffe foes as the “Few”...
