Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
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 …
VMFT-401 is the only Marine “Adversary” squadron base in MCAS Yuma , AZ. They are tasked to act as the opposing force in simulated air combat. Snipers was activated back in 1987 and was given the Isreali F-21 “Kfirs” and later in 1989 they receive the F-5n and was flying Read More …
VFC-13 the Saints base in NAS Fallon, NV came into Ellington Field KEFD 4/22/2017 for a gas and go. This time we get to see the F-5F in the “Top Gun” MIG-28 scheme. There were 2 tiger Camouflage schemed F-5n and the standard white/grey camouflage jet. With the colorful camouflage scheme of 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 …
( SITE BEST VIEW ON PC or MAC ) NAS Fallon (KNFL) about 70 miles east of Reno NV houses the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) which is currently being change to Naval Air Warfare Development Center NAWDC. This mighty warfare center consists of Naval Strike Warfare Center (NSWC), the Naval Fighter Weapon School Read More …
Hi All I am reporting my NAS Fallon Base visit. Have been a great eye opener since this time Carrier Air Wing 17 from USS Carl Vinson was there training. We also caught a number of East Coast Squadron and Aggressors from VFC-12 Omars and VFA-204 River Rattlers . Here are the Squadron and Aircraft Read More …