Tagged: Forces

Aviation History / Blue Angels / Formation Flying / RCAF Snowbirds / Special Aviation Events / USAF Thunderbirds

May 16, 2020

An Armed Forces Salute to First Responders

Photo by Lt. Aaron Hicks/Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, honored frontline COVID-19 first responders and essential workers with formation flights over New...

Aerobatics / Airshow / demo teams / Europe

August 9, 2019

The Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows Begin Their North American Tour

The team readies to depart from their home base at RAF Scampton on August 5th. It’s mid-summer in 2019, and the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows flight demonstration team has embarked on Exercise Western Hawk – a weeks-long tour...

Air Force Reserve / Air National Guard / Air Transports / military / tanker ride / Transports / U.S. Air Force

August 3, 2019

The U.S. Air Force’s KC-46A Pegasus Update

KC-46A Pegasus on approach to a Joint Base McGuire runway. Photo by Mike Colaner. Boeing’s KC-46A Pegasus program has been fraught with delays caused by several bid cancellations, system redesigns, and recent quality control issues. Originally, a plan to...

Airshow / demo teams / europe / military / Trainers

November 4, 2016

Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows Tour Asia-Pacific and Middle East Nations

The Red Arrows are in the midst of a two-month tour of the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, far away from their home of RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The reason why they are so far from home is to...

air force / europe / military / Red Flag

April 14, 2016

European Air Forces at Red Flag

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...

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November 3, 2014

Luke Air Force Base – Pilot Training in Arizona with the 56th Fighter Wing

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...