Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
Our local squadrons USMC VMFA-112 and 301st FW usually do their Drill weekend once a month and for my 1st 2023 actions for NAS JRB Ft worth our boys and girls don’t fail us. Weather was breezy and cloudy with wind gusting to 20 knots using Runway 18. Manage to catch them doing some great Read More …
Growlers, Superhornets, C2, Mirage F1, F-16 all within the month of Jan 2021! Read More …
I would like to start our series of Hurricane Evacuation of our military jets and for the year 2020 , we have multiple evacs that is hitting the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Laura hit the gulf coast between Louisiana and Texas border and came inland towards Shreveport LA and thus hitting our global Strike B-52 Read More …
301st FW drill weekend December 2018. Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning 1-1 VSTOL and VMFA-314 F/A-18 Read More …
NAS Ft worth ( KNFW ) on Dec 11th 2018 It was moody and cloudy but we got an interesting visitor callsign Spear 47 , Aircraft type AC-130U 4th Special Operations Squadron. We could see him coming into KNFW and was requesting for multiple low approaches. She finally landed on runway 18 and stayed for Read More …
July usually calls for Fireworks, outdoors, hotdogs and fireworks… Well, in North Texas as we are in we getting hit with 105 degree F heat . Scorching heat calls for indoors and Air conditioning. Despite the Texas Heat we manage to fight that and get you some actions here in NAS Ft worth JRB ( Read More …
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 …
July 8th 2017 The Typical Dallas Summer of 105 degree F and high humidity made this hot and muggy Saturday. We were brave enough to challenge this heat and venture to NAS JRB Ft worth ( KNFW ) to do some plane spotting. We were very fortunate to have our local squadron 301st FW “Spads” Read More …
2017 Patrouille de France of the French Air Force was cordially invited to the United States by the United States Air Force (USAF) marking their 70th Anniversary and also the 100th Anniversary for the end of World War 1. The Patrouille Acrobatique de France also Read More …
Feb 5th 2017 mark the Superbowl Sunday for fiscal year 2017. We have the New England Patriots fighting up with the Atlanta Falcons. Airwingspotter was covering a flight of VMAQ-3 Prowlers EA-6B in NAS Ft worth JRB. Word from the “little bird” tell us about the Moondogs was in town and running some local training Read More …
1-30-2017 Jan 2017 and we are getting 77 degree F weather. It was beautiful afternoon with a slight 10 knots west wind. Ft worth JRB was using runway 36 for the entire afternoon which I was praying for when I was there. Right on the dot of 1345hrs we started to see Lightning 5-1 and Read More …
We are all blessed in November 2016 to get so much F-35 activities in NAS Ft worth JRB. We caught 2 sorties of F-35B on 11-26-2016. 1st sortie came from a delivery flight for the USMC in MCAS Yuma. This F-35B belongs to the VMFA-121 Green Knights. She came off from the Lockheed Martin hanger Read More …
We were fortunate to have KNFW ( Nas Ft worth ) that is the builder of all our F-35 Lightning II. Today 9/11 we spot the new F-35B from our Marine unit VMFA-211 Wake Island Avenger that use to fly the AV-8B Harrier. They have since transition to the F-35B. This is a runway 18 Read More …
( Use PC or MAC for best viewing in this site) RSAF ( Republic of Singapore AirForce ) have a small contingent of 6x CH-47D base in Grand Prairie , TX ( near Dallas TX) This is part of a continuing testing and training they are doing here in the US. The unit is part Read More …
On Wednesday June 22, the official ceremony to mark the acceptance of the first fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter by the Israeli Air Force took place in Lockheed Martin plant in Ft Worth ,Texas. The fighter is named F-35I “Adir” The first pair of F-35I (the second is scheduled to leave the assembly line in Read More …
Air power Expo 2016 ( Site best View in PC or MAC) Nowadays with the budget cuts and all, our local NAS Ft worth gets the Airshow once every year. Fortunately, 2016 gets the Air power Expo. This year we have got some pretty good static display namely B-52H from Barkesdale AFB, EA-18G from VAQ-209, Read More …
Website Best view with PC or MAC We all know this base by JRB or Joint Reserve Base Ft worth and use to be Careswell AFB for the strategic Air Command flying the B36 and B52. I was out spotting with Andy and Lee on this faithful Tue afternoon. At about 1:30pm we were greeted Read More …
