Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
03-18-2023 Ellington Field , KEFD We were fortunate to have caught 2 of these River Rattlers which formerly flew teh F/A-18 Legacy Hornet doing the US Navy Adversary role. They have recently have switch to flying the Northrop F-5n . Here we see 2 of their F-5n in the gloomy weather of Houston Texas…… More Read More …
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. It is the home of multiple squadrons of the F-35B Lightning IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Adversary Squadron VMFT-401, 4th Marine Airwing and the Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron VMX-1. Our trip in November got us into a WTI ( Weapon Training Instructor) exercise. F-35B Actions Read More …
Spring is almost going to pass us and here in North Texas…. we have quite a bit of good Military aircraft traffic in our belt for February. 1st Encounter came from “Camelot” VFA-14 F/A-18E base out of NAS Leemore, CA coming thru Ft Worth alliance which include the CAG bird . Next came VMFT-401 Snipers Read More …
2018 marked a very wet Fall and we have many rainy days in the October month. Fortunately we have one good day for the airshow and on this Sunday we have variable clouds and eventually open up to be a very nice day for airshow. Alliance was fortunate to get 2 jet demonstration team including 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 …
Naval Air Station Fallon is US Navy’s premier tactical air warfare center specializing in Air to Air and Air to ground training. Due to the vast size of the nearby ranges, 80% of all Navy munitions dropped in training is done in NAS Fallon. This is also the only Navy airbase that could house an Read More …
VMFT-401 ” Snipers” is the Marine Corps only “Adversary or Aggressor ” Squadron in service. Currently located at MCAS Yuma AZ. This small unit flies the Northrop F-5n Tiger II with aircraft painted in the Eastern Bloc type adversarial Camouflage pattern. Most of these F-5n were ex-Swiss Air Force aircraft and the reason for choosing Read More …