Tagged: Anchorage

July 1, 2015

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...

assignments / travel

August 14, 2014

TransNorthern Aviation, Flying Alaska On Demand

According to the Alaskan Department of Transportation, 82% of towns and communities in their state are not connected by roads, and only 2% of the state’s land mass is accessible by roadway. Little wonder then that there are over...

air force / Exercises / fighters / military / travel

July 13, 2014

Red Flag Alaska – Training, Tactics, Testing

The expansive airspace over south central Alaska offers an unsurpassed classroom during Red Flag Alaska (RF-A) training exercises. A pair of Air Force Bases (Eielson AFB is east of Fairbanks and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is just north of Anchorage)...

post / travel

July 6, 2014

Lake Hood Seaplane Base – Alaska’s Floatplane Pinnacle

Known officially as the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the 49th state’s largest and busiest airport is really comprised of three airfields that operate as one cohesive and spectacular aviation beehive. Two smaller facilities sit just east of the...

air racing / friends / tribute

October 9, 2013

Racing for a Cure

It seems appropriate to me to introduce you to a couple I met at this year’s Reno Air Races held just a month ago. When I first met Ken Anderson he was polishing his white Formula One Racer, Miss...

air force / demo teams / featured / fighters / warbirds

August 6, 2012

ARCTIC THUNDER 2012 Review!

The bi-annual Arctic Thunder Event held at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) up in Anchorage a couple of weeks ago and was attended by approximately 225,000 people between the two days. The headline acts for the show was the United...

air force / featured / fighters / military / photocalls

June 22, 2012

Bigger, Bolder: Red Flag – Alaska

The name Red Flag has been synonymous with large scale flying exercises since the early 1970s. Originally developed at Nevada’s Nellis AFB to help pilots survive their first ten missions in Vietnam, Red Flag has become an important test...