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air force / Exercises / fighters / post

An Aggressive Launch

The 18th Aggressor Squadron (18 AGRS) has called Alaska’s Eielson AFB home since 2007.  Flying modified F-16 jet fighters, the 18th AGRS “prepares Combat Air Force, joint and allied aircrews for tomorrow’s victories through challenging, realistic threat replication, training, test...

contrails

Scrambled Eggs–Vietnam-Style

By Maj. Tony Geishauser (USA-Ret.) It started as just another routine day at the office. Of course, my office happened to be the cockpit of a U.S. Army UH-1 “Huey” helicopter flying over Vietnam. Every day started routinely. Some...

bombers / legends / warbirds

Memphis Belle On Memorial Day

The early morning fog is thick, heavy and low hanging. It blankets the fields in a gray mist dense enough to block the early morning sun as it creeps over the eastern horizon. The fog touches everything, and when...

Exercises / Marines / military

USMC – HMM 364 “Flying the Barn”

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  – Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 364 ( Purple Foxes) of Marine Air Group 16 (MAG), 3rd Marine Air Wing (MAW) conducted a commemorative flight from MCAS Camp Pendleton, Mar. 31, 2014....

air racing

SteadFast Unlimited Air Racing

Will Whiteside is a familiar face and name around the Reno pits.  Whether it’s the varieties of planes he’s raced over the last couple years or his warm personality and seemingly permanent smile on his sunglasses-clad face. Once the...

Marines / military

HMLAT 303 – Training the Future of Light Attack

Before HMLAT-303 was established in April 1982, Marine Corps helicopter pilots received advanced aircraft training at their fleet squadron after completing basic flight training. Overtime, the Marine Corps realized that this method of training was a drain on squadron...

favorite / Joe and Dave / Marines / military

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

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)...