Tagged: 2012

March 16, 2012

Flying FIFI at Tico 2012

TICO is the annual fundraising airshow for the Valiant Air Command down in Titusville, Florida. The airport is literally in the shadows of the Kennedy Space Center on the east coast of Florida. Since what seems like the beginning...

demo teams / fighters / military / navy / post

March 14, 2012

El Centro Airshow 2012 – Far, Hot, Dirty, and Awesome

NAF El Centro is just about in the middle of nowhere, it is always hot, and there are no permanently stationed squadrons. Having said all that, the El Centro drew a huge crowd and had top notch performances; not...

assignments / bombers

February 2, 2012

Sacramento’s 2012 Aerial Firefighting International Airshow and Conference

My lone encounter with a large “wildfire” occurred five years ago while I was visiting Southern California. Watching a steady stream of tanker aircraft shuttle to and from a huge unnatural-looking cloud on the horizon, their bellies red-stained and...

POF / post / warbirds

January 18, 2012

Cable Airport Air Show 2012

Woo Hoo! Airshow season is back, albeit to a slow start. Cable airshow is the first airshow in the southern California area after the long and cold break since Nellis in November. Cable airport is a relatively small general...

chino / military / museums / POF / post

January 16, 2012

2012 Cable Airshow – Birddog Style

On January 7, 2012 at 6:00 am, I made my way to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California. There, I was to be a passenger in the museum’s Cessna L-19 Birddog that was scheduled to be...