Tagged: Langley AFB

Base Visits / demo teams / Exercises / fighters

May 9, 2017

ATLANTIC TRIDENT 17 Sharpens the Cutting Edge

Photography by Howard German except where noted. Written by Ken Kula with Shirl Kula. Langley Air Force Base, Virginia was the site of a trilateral military aviation exercise featuring three long-time allies with cutting edge aircraft and systems. In...

Airshow / demo teams / fighters / Formation Flying / military / museums / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Navy / warbirds

May 4, 2016

Air Power Over Hampton Roads – 2016

Langley Air Show 2016, Celebrating One Hundred Years of Air Power over Hampton, VA 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of Langley Field. To commemorate a century of Langley’s history, Joint Base Langley-Eustis hosted an open house on April 22-24...

air force / Exercises / fighters / military

February 19, 2015

Red Flag 15-1 marks ‘Forty Years of Flag’

Forty years ago the United States Air Force needed to improve their success rate in aerial combat over Vietnam, where it had fallen from 10:1 during the Korean conflict, to lower than 1:1 at times, during the decade long Vietnam...

air force / Exercises / military

February 28, 2014

The Red Flag Tanker Flight 14-1

As anyone who is into Military Aviation knows, the Red Flag exercise is held several times a year at Nellis Air Force Base, just north of Las Vegas, NV. It is probably the most media covered exercise each and...

air force / Exercises / fighters / military

February 26, 2014

Red Flag 14-1

Las Vegas, NV- The 414th Combat Training Squadron of Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) hosted the first of its 2014 series of Red Flag training exercises from January 27th -February 14th. Red Flag is a series of high intensity...

air force / bombers / fighters / military

April 3, 2013

Red Flag 13-3

Red Flag 13-3 was held at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada, from Feb. 25 to March 15, 2013. While twenty-nine different countries have participated in Red Flag exercises since 1975, this particular Red Flag was a tier...

air force / fighters / military / post / warbirds

March 21, 2011

Heritage Flight Training Conference 2011

On March 3-6, 2011, vintage warbirds and United States Air Force aircraft from across the country came to Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona for the annual Heritage Flight Training Conference. During a large number of airshows...