Tagged: Fleet

Aerobatics / Airliners / Airshow / Blue Angels / military / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Navy

February 12, 2020

San Francisco Fleet Week 2019

Each year during Columbus Day weekend, San Francisco hosts the Blue Angels at its annual Fleet Week celebration. In recent years, Fleet Week evolved from just a parade of ships and an airshow to a weeklong exercise in emergency...

Airshow / fighters / military / post / USAF Thunderbirds / warbirds

November 1, 2018

Maryland Fleet Week and Airshow, 2018

In what has become a biannual tradition, Naval vessels and aircraft arrived in Baltimore for Maryland Fleet Week and Airshow, October 3rd through 9th, 2018. American, British and Canadian ships were available for tours in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor or...

Aircraft carrier / Special Events / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

June 6, 2018

The 30th Fleet Week New York in 2018

The 30th “Fleet Week New York 2018” was celebrated from May 23rd through May 29th, 2018, all around New York City and there was actually an aviation component included with the participation of the “USS Arlington” (LPD-24), a 684-foot...

Blue Angels / video

October 29, 2017

San Francisco Fleet Week 2017

It’s October in San Francisco, which means it has to be Fleet Week. Since 1981 Fleet Week has been a fixture in the City by the Bay. It’s a week long event with disaster preparedness drills, military displays, ship...

Helicopters / Marines / U.S. Navy

June 13, 2016

Fleet Week, NYC 2016

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 Airport, at the American Air...

fighters / military / navy

November 27, 2013

Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part Three

PART 3: Critical Decisions and Events of the Mid-1980s. I was an F-14 RIO who joined my first Fleet fighter squadron in 1981. In 1982 I attended the Topgun class as a student (by then it was five weeks), and in 1984 I was selected to return as an instructor. The following events and decisions occurred during my time as an instructor and contributed to Topgun’s evolution and continued validity.