2016’s Summer of Flags
From July 11-29, and from August 15-26, 2016, the United States Air Force’s 414th Combat Training Squadron hosted a pair of ‘Red Flag’ exercises at Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada....
From July 11-29, and from August 15-26, 2016, the United States Air Force’s 414th Combat Training Squadron hosted a pair of ‘Red Flag’ exercises at Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada....
Run over the first three weeks of August, Exercise Pitch Black 2016 ran a “Media Embed Program” for the benefit of local and international media organisations, during the exercise. PHOTORECON was privileged to be...
Another EAA AirVenture has come and gone, and it’s time to take stock of what we saw. There were headlines, and behind-the-scenes stories that made splashes across social media sites and web sites around the...
“PITCHING IN” Air Operations during Exercise Pitch Black 2016 This story begins in a secluded bush block near Darwin Airport – DRW/YPDN (Northern Territory, Australia) with barely a puff of breeze caressing the long,...
I spent the Thursday of Fleet Week NYC 2016 on the Flight Deck of the USS Bataan LHD-5, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. Later that week, my Saturday May 28th was spent at Republic...
As many shows as I go to each year, there are none I look forward to more than the Planes of Fame Airshow in Chino, California. The POF museum boasts an incredible collection of...
The nation’s only tri-service military base, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, held its biennial Power in the Pines Open House and Air Show during the weekend of May 14th and 15th, 2016. The...
The Los Angeles County Airshow sprang back to life on March 19th and 20th at William J. Fox Field in Lancaster, California. Lancaster is approximately 75 miles north of Los Angeles in the...
In 1941, Luke Field opened with the mission of training the finest fighter pilots in the world. Now called the “Home of the Fighter Pilot”, Luke continues to instill upon the next generation of...
Red Flag is the United States Air Force’s premier training exercise conducted inside the Nevada Test and Training Range in the Nevada desert. The NTTR has the largest air and ground space anywhere in...
Photo by Airman 1st Class Rachel Loftis 12/18/2015 – NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Draken International, a commercial fleet of ex-military aircraft, recently won a bid for a short-long contract to provide adversary support here. The 99th Contracting Squadron met...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the California Capital Airshow at Mather Airfield, and it was quite the celebration, with the RCAF Canadian Snowbirds and the USAF Thunderbirds. This year also marked the first...