NORTHERN LIGHTNING 2022
BY: SCOTT JANKOWSKI PHOTOS BY: HOWARD GERMAN AND SCOTT JANKOWSKI The Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center once again held its annual Northern Lightning exercise from August 8th to August 19th. This year’s exercise...
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“Back in Black” – August 2022 Saw the Return of Exercise Pitch Black
“Back in Black” August 2022 saw the return of Exercise Pitch Black to the skies of the Northern Territory, Australia, after a four-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The biannual exercise involved seventeen...
Joint Base Andrews 2022 Air & Space Expo
After two years of Covid-19 lock-downs, the USAF Academy Wings of Blue and US Army Golden Knights parachute teams were back in the sky over JB Andrews, MD. Jumping from 12,000 feet and unfurling...
Joint Base Andrews Air and Space Expo 2022
Joint Base Andrews hosted their first air show since 2019 on September 17th and 18th, the 18th being the 75th Birthday of the United States Air Force. Among us, serious air show fans, it...
Rapid Pacific 2022 Stops at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan
Masaki Komatsu caught part of the record-setting Rapid Pacific 2022 deployment of German Air Force fighters, tankers and transports as they left the Hyakuri Air Base in Japan, bound for Singapore. The entire group...
Master Base NAS Lemoore
Master Base NAS Lemoore NAS Lemoore is the largest U.S. Navy base, at approximately 12,000 hectares (or around 29,600 acres). Opened in 1961 it now a Master Jet Base of the U.S. Navy, one...
Kirtland Air Force Base Air & Space Fiesta 2019
Kirtland Air Force Base is situated on the southeast side of Albuquerque New Mexico’s largest airport. The base sits across the runways from the civilian terminal and actually shares the same runways with the...
“Legends In Flight” – the 2019 Joint Base Andrews Air and Space Expo Preview
“Legends In Flight” is the theme for the 2019 Air and Space Expo at Joint Base Andrews, just off of the Capital Beltway in Camp Springs, Maryland. Andrews serves the Washington DC area, and...
Hyakuri Air Base Open Day and F-4 Phantom Showcase
An air base open day was held on 2 December 2018 at Hyakuri Air Base (RJAH) in Ibaraki Prefecture, marking the start of the transition of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Koku Jeitai...
JASDF Tsuiki Air Base Festival 2018
On Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, I hopped on a flight to Tokyo, arriving there on Friday afternoon. The following day, I met up with the rest of my traveling group from...
THE 2018 QUONSET POINT AIR SHOW – THE SHOW AND THE BASE
The Quonset Point Air Show for 2018, officially called the “2018 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show”, was held on Saturday and Sunday, June 9th and 10th, at the Quonset State Airport...
RAAF Boeing P-8 Poseidon Delivered At RAAF Base Edinburgh
PHOTORECON was present for the arrival ceremony for the Boeing P-8A Poseidon to RAAF Base Edinburgh (north of Adelaide, South Australia) on 25th November. A Welcome to Country ceremony was performed for the P-8...
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.”...
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...
