Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
Lockheed Martin is pumping out these brand new F-35A Lightning II from the Ft worth plant ( KNFW ) or as we known as the NAS Ft Worth Joint Reserve Base ( JRB). This extremely hot and humid day we fight the Texas Summer Heat to photograph the maiden flight of this Norwegian F-35A AM-14 Read More …
1st Saturday of the month ( 2018-3-3 ) which also means Drill weekend for our local 301stFW “Spads” .. Spads did not fly on this Sat and our attention was sway towards Ft Worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW) which presented us with 6 VMFT-401 Snipers F-5n Marine Adversary Squadrons. This is the 3rd time I Read More …
Fall of 2017 marks the airshow season and Join Base San Antonio (JBSA) marks my last airshow for fiscal year 2017. This year we have the following acts that made this show very special. C-17 demostration KC-135 demostration MC-130J and CV-22 demostration Read More …
Fall is officially starting with State Fair of Texas starting this Fri. Last Sat and Sun was pretty good for Aviation spotting in NAS Ft worth JRB ( KNFW ) 457th FS was out on deployment in Oregon doing DACT training and coming home from deployment. We caught 7 of the 8 F-16 that was Read More …
RIAT 2017 “Made in Heaven, tattooed on Earth” During the third weekend of July, the gates of the RAF base in Fairford opened once again for the lucky visitors of this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo. 160.000 people were gathered to witness one of the best aviation feasts in Europe. Let the show begin… A Read More …
Nellis “Aviation Nation” 2016 Open House ( Best View by PC or MAC.. ) As the airshow circuit comes to an end for 2016, Nellis AFB sure knows how to end this year’s schedule by having an outstanding static display, and excellent aerial demonstration schedule. Aerial display consisted Read More …
( Site best view in PC or MAC ) Fall is here with Football season , State Fair of Texas and best of all Ft Worth Alliance Airshow. This year we have a good lineup of performance from the Military. The main highlights of the performer comes from the USAF Thunderbird and US Read More …
Ft Worth annual Airshow is coming up this coming weekend 10-15-2016. This year we are getting Thunderbirds USAF demonstration team, US Navy F-18E/F Superhornet Tactical Demo. Our Tbirds came in early this year with the whole team in on Monday. Also we see the supporting C-17 that came in KAFW. Photograph from Scott Mecum
Last week Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth received a good number of aircraft fleeing hurricane Matthew. JRBFW saw a number of exciting visitors camping out over the weekend. The photographers were out en-force to gobble up all the action. With Monday being a holiday the scuttlebutt was that most of the visitors would be heading Read More …
September 2016, This is a good month since many heavies came through Ellington Field . ( KEFD) Most notable came from the C-5M and C17 We got some news that AC-130 will be running training in KEFD. This aircraft stayed through the weekend plus a few days… Aircraft Serial # Read More …
NAS Ft worth ( KNFW) Military aircraft spotting in August. Lockheed Martin (LMT) have been very busy crunching out those F-35 Lightning. After a week of rain and thunderstorm, we finally got some clear weather and LMT took these clear weather for some intensive F35 testing. First being the Israeli F-35I (Adir) in Hebrew denotes Read More …
Singapore Airshow is Asia’s largest and one of the most important aerospace and defense exhibitions in the world. A truly global exhibition where the latest state-of-the-art systems and equipment, together with their related technologies and developments, are displayed by top aerospace companies around the world. I would rate this show more of a trade show Read More …
Ellington Field ( KEFD) : 8-26-2015 It having been just a little over a month since I’d seen some military traffic come through KEFD, I was pretty excited about the prospect that some fast movers were to be stopping by. Shortly after arriving I heard Read More …
Spectacular spotting done in RAF Mildenhall. All the locals and some visitors! Pictures by Phillip H
Static Display in an Airshow have always been neglected again and again. Most Magazines, blogs just focus on the flying stuff. But as a Scale Aviation modeller we look at the details of each aircraft ….. Here you have it…. MCAS Beaufort 2015… Static display for this East Coast Fightertown or the Marines Hornet’s Nest……. Read More …
We have here the Entire Presidential Air group to support President Obama visiting the UK. The arrival VC-25,C-32 , but on the going home on the Friday they had 4 c-17s to collect the limos etc, on the sunday 3 C-17s, for the VH-60s, and 2KC-130js for the V-22. Actions taken in RAF Fairford 2014 Read More …
This past Friday, Feb 6th, Carol and I made the 300 mile trip north to Fort Worth, TX to NAS Fort Worth JRB for the 301 FW drill weekend. Our good friend and fellow spotter (chief editor of AWS) Dave Chng was our host / guide for the day. Dave has been telling me for Read More …