Also known as The Greatest Show on Turf, The National Warplane Museum titled their 40th Anniversary airshow, “Operation Thanks from Above”, which took place on July 10th and 11th, 2021. This represented a carryover from the area flybys conducted...
The Decatur Illinois Airport celebrated its 75th anniversary by holding the first airshow in 25 years. I was asked to be the official photographer. It was a great show, with three and a half hours of great flying. The...
The 50th Anniversary of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force occurred in 2004. Masaki Komatsu shares some of the colors from that year here, in a scrapbook. You can hover over the photo to check the type, or click for...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is celebrating their Golden Anniversary of Fifty Years in 2020. NOAA’s history is an intrinsic part of the history of the United States and the development of its science and commercial infrastructure....
Grumman E-2D Hawkeye of VAW-123 “Chambers Field”, the Naval Air Station facility located within Naval Station Norfolk (NAVSTANOR), celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the flying component of the base with a fairly big but somewhat “secret” air show on...
The year was 1990, sixty-five years after the Pratt and Whitney company began their work on aircraft engines in East Harford, Connecticut. Frederick Rentschler and six others moved into an empty shop space in 1925, and developed the Wasp...
Peter Boschert has filed a series of articles about aviation events in Europe this year. Many of his photos of specially marked aircraft show the highlights of notable anniversaries that non-standard artwork commemorates. We’ve captioned some of these photos and...
Dion Makowski with Anne West They shall grow not old, As we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, And in the morning We...
Over the last weekend in April 2016, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in the town of Havelock North Carolina, offered their 75th Anniversary Air Show. The last three quarters of a century has seen monumental changes in aviation, much...
Setting the Record Straight By Francis Gary Powers, Jr. May 1, 2015 55th Anniversary of the U-2 Incident 55 years after my father was shot down over the former Soviet Union I still find it interesting that people who...
There have been few events in sports that manage to last 50 years. Fortunately the National Championship Air Races at Reno are one of them. This year will mark the 50th running of this race during September 11th-15th...
10/14/2012 – NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Retired United States Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, celebrated the 65th anniversary of his ground breaking event with a re-enactment here Oct....
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