BLUE AIRPLANES – A PHOTO COLLECTION
How well do you know your aircraft types? Well, here’s an assortment of civil, military, and oddballs all thrown together. There’s just a pair of common threads here… they’re aircraft, and they’ve all got...
How well do you know your aircraft types? Well, here’s an assortment of civil, military, and oddballs all thrown together. There’s just a pair of common threads here… they’re aircraft, and they’ve all got...
The Brunswick Executive Airport, formerly part of the Naval Air Station at Brunswick, Maine, is the host venue for the Great State of Maine Air Shows. In 2021, another edition of the air show,...
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the New Orleans area in 2005, it set in motion a grand finale event in 2009. When the storm hit NAS New Orleans as the story goes, a large...
Koninklijke Luchtmacht (RNLAF) Leeuwarden Open Dagen 2006 2021 is the Squadron’s 75 anniversary! As the Blue Angels have retired all of their Legacy Hornets and their KC-130T in 2020, let’s take a look back...
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Blue Angels have retired all of their Legacy aircraft during the 2020 calendar year. Gone is the Marines KC-130T “Fat Albert Airlines” transport, as well as the F/A-18A/B/C/D...
The United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue Angels, recently flew their “sundown” voyage with their F/A-18 Legacy Hornets. The term “Legacy” refers to early model McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18 model...
On Monday, August 17th, 2020, a Gulfstream G550 Nachshon Eitam led 6 Israeli F-16C /Ds and two Boeing 707 tanker aircraft to Nörvenich, joining Luftwaffe Squadron 31 “Boelcke” for exercise BLUE WINGS 2020....
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, honored frontline COVID-19 first responders and essential workers with formation flights over New York City, New...
Interview and most questions by Nicole Cloutier. Additional questions by Mike Colaner On May 10th I had the pleasure of watching the Blue Angels arrive to Tampa before the MacDill Airfest. For this...
The Israeli air force international training program has become in the last years to be fully and reach in deployments and collaborations that took the force to all kind of new lands on the...
The headlining U.S. Navy Blue Angels returned to Stewart International Airport on July 1 and 2 from their last appearance there in June 2003, arriving at the New Windsor, NY airport on Monday prior...
On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to...