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September 24, 2016

Owls Head Transportation Museum Presents Its 2016 Rally

Located on the north end of the Knox County/Rockland Maine airport, the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Wings and Wheels Spectacular, held on the first full weekend in August this year, featured aircraft designs that spanned a full century...

Airshow / bombers / fighters / Formation Flying / museums / warbirds

August 14, 2015

The 2015 Rally at the Owls Head Transportation Museum

Tucked away on a closed runway that dates back to World War II, the Owls Head Transportation Museum resides in Rockland, Maine at the Knox County Regional Airport. Its mission “is to collect, preserve, exhibit and operate pre-1940 aircraft,...

fighters / Marines / military

June 6, 2015

VMFA- 323 The Death Rattlers (a.k.a. The Snakes)

The Second World War was still raging in Europe and the Pacific on August 1, 1943, when Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-323, the “Death Rattlers” were commissioned at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point in North Carolina. Arriving at...

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May 25, 2015

A National Treasure – Memorial Day, 2015

There exists a multitude of ways to measure the wealth of a nation. Gross domestic product is probably the most common. Land mass and area could be another. Perhaps even the gold a country keeps. However, of all the...

contrails

February 10, 2015

CROP-DUSTING IN IDAHO

By John Bigelow By early summer, 1959, my friend, Murray, an ex-F-86 fighter jock fresh from the Royal Canadian Air Force, and I, a furloughed Canadian C-46 copilot, were newly graduated crop-dusters. Murray had landed a job flying Stearmans...

Airshow

September 3, 2014

Atlantic City, NJ Thunder over the Boardwalk Air Show 2014

Grab the kids, grab the cooler, grab the beach blanket, chairs and umbrella, and let’s head to the beach. It’s time for the twelfth annual Atlantic City, NJ “Thunder over the Boardwalk” Air Show; a mid-week, family fun, non-stop...

air racing / featured / friends / warbirds

September 17, 2011

Jimmy Leeward – Blue Skies and Tailwinds Forever

As Dave and I sit in our hotel room in Reno, Nevada and reflect on the events of yesterday, we have decided to write this tribute to Jimmy Leeward. Dave arrived last Saturday and spent a lot of time...

assignments / favorite / friends / Joe and Dave / military / navy / post

August 24, 2010

D.V. Embarkation aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)

(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker/Released) A Journey To The USS Carl Vinson / CVN 70 By Steve Kates- Dr.Sky As a Radio/TV host; Dr.Sky; it has been a goal of mine, to report...