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 …
Ft worth Allliance airshow 2021. Highlights include the 457th FS F16, USAF ACC F16 and A-10C demo, C17 demo and US Navy Blue angels flying the latest F/A-18 E/F Superhornet
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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 …
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 …
Jan Feb 2020 KNFW and KAFW military aircraft spotting 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
VFA-125 Rough Raiders base in NAS Lemoore CA was the Fleet Replacement Squadron ( FRS ) until its deactivation in October 2010. VFA-125 at that time was also use as the US Navy Tac Demo on the Legacy Hornet. As you can see in the photo below showcasing 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 …
( 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 …
Spotting day on 4-30-2016 Pages best view on PC and MAC Weather was quite gloomy with lots of clouds in the morning and we got a good north wind meaning runway 34 or 36 on both airports. I started by checking out KAFW Ft Worth Alliance and got a greeting of 2x F-15C from 122FS 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 …
( Best View on PC or MAC ) Its a beautiful Friday and the weather was sunny and a north breeze of 5 knots . Runway 36 was active. By noon we were greeted with 6 Spads ( 457th FS) F-16and a single VMFA-112 F-18A++ launch. C-130H and C130J from Ropers and Rangers also tearing 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 …
