River Rattlers in Texas

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 …

Eagles , Hornets, Venoms and Cobras!!!! 2022

This Spring 2022, we get to visit JOint Reserve Base New Orleans for the Airshow and open house. 2022 is very different becasue the Local VFA-204 River Rattlers will be flying the F/A-18 Hornet for the last time and transiting to the a new VFC-204 squadron flying the F-5N TIger II . They serve the Read More …

October 2020 Spotting in KNFW and KAFW

October Fest sure come fast for 2020. We sure have a lot of actions in terms of Military Aircraft movements, Hurricane Evacuations in addition to our local units and Lockheed Martin traffic. Overall it has been a very busy October given all the visitors and also the 2 major airshow in Ft worth and Houston. Read More …

Alliance Ft worth , Hornets and Texans!! 5-31-15

DFW area have been hammered by rain and storm in spring… After 5 weeks of rain we finally got a window of sunny day. This faithful Sunday was no exception with 85 degreeF temperature and a good north wind at 8 mph. As I approach the tower, I could see a row of T-6A and Read More …

NAS Fallon Part 2 Aggressors from Oceana and New Orleans

We got the greatest Top gun School here in Fallon and adding to that, 2 Visiting Squadrons came in to join the fight for the Red Wing. VFC-12 Omars from NAS Oceana and VFA-204 River Rattlers. Hard to see how lucky we got to see both East, South and West Coast Aggressors under one roof. Read More …