Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
Spring is almost going to pass us and here in North Texas…. we have quite a bit of good Military aircraft traffic in our belt for February. 1st Encounter came from “Camelot” VFA-14 F/A-18E base out of NAS Leemore, CA coming thru Ft Worth alliance which include the CAG bird . Next came VMFT-401 Snipers Read More …
Ellington Field KEFD spotting Feb 2020. F/A-18E from VFA113 and T38C from Vance AFB Read More …
June 1st , 2018 marks a very hot Friday in Ft Worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW ). Under this extreme Texas summer heat of 100 degrees or more, we were presented with Superhornets F/A-18E from NAS Leemore, CA. 1st superhornet came in as Callsign “Fist 1-1” dashing through the north end for runway 16R , Read More …
Red Flag 18-1 The 1st Flag for 2018 at Nellis AFB started from Jan 29th to Feb 16 2018. This flag have quite a good foreign participation including Royal Air Force no. 11 Squadron Typhoon FGR4, Voyager tanker and Royal Australian Air Force No. 6 Squadron, E/A-18G Growler Amberley Airbase. For Read More …
VMFT-401 ” Snipers” is the Marine Corps only “Adversary or Aggressor ” Squadron in service. Currently located at MCAS Yuma AZ. This small unit flies the Northrop F-5n Tiger II with aircraft painted in the Eastern Bloc type adversarial Camouflage pattern. Most of these F-5n were ex-Swiss Air Force aircraft and the reason for choosing Read More …
On this Spring day ( 2-17-2018) Ft worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW ) typical weekend of military traffic coming through this airport. Our local units VMFA-112 ( Cowboys ) have 2x F/A-18A++ doing some training . We were lucky to have caught them launch in the afternoon, recover after about 1.5 hours and later did Read More …