Photos by Scott Zeno, except where noted. The Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG) has roots that can be traced back to the years just before the American Revolutionary War, in the 1760s. Originally a militia organization named the...
2018 Rhode Island National Guard Airshow and Open House By Ken Middleton The USAF Viper Demo Team was a last-minute addition to the Rhode Island National Guard Airshow and Open House, held at Quonset Air National Guard Base,...
This is the second part of an interview of Jim “Hazy” Haseltine, the photographer behind the lens for the “Hazy’s Photo of the Week” feature you see here at Photorecon.net. What equipment does he use to capture these...
The well-known Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas in Nevada, are not only used by their sponsor, the United States Air Force (USAF), but by many armed forces. With multinational operations more common in...
The 56th Fighter Wing officially began training new F-35 pilots today when the first student, Brigadier General Scott Pleus, 56th Fighter Wing commander, flew the wing’s first training sortie. Luke has a long and storied history of training fighter...
For a few years I’ve asked myself, who has the toughest, but also the coolest job? Members of the extreme motorsport (Formula 1, DTM and MotoGP and NASCAR) or jet pilots? In the end, all “professional groups“ are related by having...
Luke Air Force Base is in the vicinity of Glendale and Sun City, Arizona and was named after the flying Ace of the First World War and Member of the Medal of Honor, Frank Luke. 7,500 millitary personal with...
With an ever smaller world the time that you could use a long winter to sort out your photos of the previous year is well behind us. Nowadays there is an air show in reach every month of the...
Here in Arizona and the “Valley Of The Sun”, we are very fortunate to have one of the largest training bases in the world, that turns out some of the best pilots in the US Air Force. Recently,...
U.S. Air Force officials have identified the pilot involved in an aircraft mishap near Caliente, Nev., June 28 as Capt. Eric Ziegler, an operational test and evaluation instructor pilot with the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air...