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 …
This Spring of 2020 have been a challenging few months for everyone in the world. Non other on the pandemic COVID 19 which changes our life forever. Texas came to a standstill just like everywhere else with “Stay at home” orders by the governor. Fortunately, our Military and Lockheed Martin still flies and hold and 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 …
Spotting Report 10/4/2018 We were fortunate to get head-sup on some visiting F-16 and this time we get the 21st Fighter Squadron ( FS ) ” Gamblers ” This is a training unit based out in Luke AFB, AZ from the Republic of China Airforce flying the very unique F-16A Blk 20. These jets will Read More …
Fall of 2018 comes real quick and this year we get hit with quite a bit of rain in this September month of 2018. We get mostly Southerly winds during this time of the year and with the moisture and clouds. Aviation spotting for NAS Ft worth JRB ( KNFW) and Ft worth Alliance Airport 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 …
Republic of Singapore Air Force ( RSAF ) have been training in Luke AFB since 1993 as 425th Fighter Squadron ( 425th FS ) ” Black Widows ” . Initially Singapore lease some F-16C Blk 42 but the program have since ended and currently, they are flying F-16C/D Blk 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 …
3/25/2017 kAFW Ft worth Alliance Airport, TX A typical Spring Sat whereby Ft worth Alliance Airport ( AFW ) gets her typical weekend traffic. We saw quite a bit of Navy transient traffic came by AFW on Friday with at least 8 F-18E/F mixed from VFA-41 Black Aces and Read More …
We caught some Wildcats sniffing around Ft worth JRB! KNFW These are Navy’s few Legacy hornet squadrons base in NAS Oceana These FA-18C was spotted carrying AGM-65 Maverick and AGM-88 HARM. Some of them carrys the MER for bomb loading. Here are some of the actions Pictures by Joseph 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 …
( Article Best view on PC or MAC) Hurricane season usually hit East Coast this time of the year and 2016 is no exception with the onslaught of Mathew projected to hit Florida on Friday 10-7-2016. Our East Coast Squadrons was evacuated to NAS Ft worth. Notable units come from NAS Jacksonville. Our Navy’s latest 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 …
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 …
( 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 …
We spotted the F-15C in Dec carrying the new TALON Hate pod that will effectively increase the capabilities of our 3rd generation fighters like the F-15, F-18 and F16. Initially we thought this is just an IRST sensor pod but seems there is a lot more capabilities in the pod configurations. Please read here for Read More …
