Tagged: California

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February 18, 2011

Photorecon flies with VMM-166 SeaElk

While attending the 100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation in San Diego, CA, the Photorecon team was invited to attend Media day at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Having previously covered numerous media events at MCAS Miramar, we knew what...

assignments / military

October 18, 2010

MCAS Miramar Air Show – Oct 1, 2 & 3 2010

The Miramar Airshow for 2010 was an experience unlike any other airshow I have attended for Photorecon for two reasons. First, I was invited to attend the Media Flight Day on Thursday (the day before the airshow officially began)...

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September 22, 2010

The National Aviation Heritage Invitational – Reno 2010

National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrines joined presenting sponsor Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. in awarding the Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage trophy to the 1945 North American P51-D NACA 127. Owned by William Allmon of Las Vegas, Nev. and restored by...

fighters / post / warbirds

September 19, 2010

Lightning Strikes Sacramento!

Living on the East Coast, I always look forward to attending West Coast air shows, for they usually contain a totally different group of aircraft than those I routinely see. The 2010 California Capital Airshow in September presented something...

meetings / post / warbirds

April 6, 2010

Flying Legend – Betty “Tack” Blake – WASP Class 43-1

Last weekend I had the honor once again to meet up with Ms. Betty “TACK ” Blake. The recent visit of the EAA‘s B-17 Aluminum Overcast brought out many WWII Vets, Blake, among the most interesting of them all....

assignments / friends / post

October 15, 2009

Visit with Orbital Sciences

Our very own Dave Budd was invited out to Mojave Space Port to photograph the Orbital L-1011 known as Stargazer” This aircraft is an L-1011 commercial transport aircraft modified to serve as the launch platform for Orbital’s air-launched Pegasus...