Death Rattlers VMFA-323
DEath Rattlers VMFA-323 visiting Ft worth TX. We caught them twice and each time 8x F/A-18. Read More …
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“Snipers” in KAFW,TX
1st Saturday of the month ( 2018-3-3 ) which also means Drill weekend for our local 301stFW “Spads” .. Spads did not fly on this Sat and our attention was sway towards Ft Worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW) which presented us with 6 VMFT-401 Snipers F-5n Marine Adversary Squadrons. This is the 3rd time I Read More …
VMFT-401 Snipers in KAFW ( 2-4-2018)
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 …
Ft Worth Alliance Airport actions 2-2018
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 …
Tactical Demonstration team schedule 2018
2018 Tactical demonstration team schedule USAF F-22A Raptor March 17: MCAS Yuma Airshow – Yuma, AZ March 24-25: Los Angeles County Airshow – Lancaster, CA March 24: Riverside Airshow – Riverside, CA April 3-8: FIDAE 2018 – Santiago, Chile April 28-29: Beale Air Show – Beale AFB, CA May 5-6: JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Open House – Read More …
Exercise Dawn Blitz 2017 on-board USS Essex LHD-2
Exercise Dawn Blitz is an annual scenario-driven amphibious exercise designed to train and integrate the staffs of Expeditionary Strike Group 3 and 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade. This Exercise started from 10/20 to 10/30 and encompasses international participants including Japan, Peru, Chile and Mexico. The exercise takes Read More …
Snipers in Town
VMFT-401 is the only Marine “Adversary” squadron base in MCAS Yuma , AZ. They are tasked to act as the opposing force in simulated air combat. Snipers was activated back in 1987 and was given the Isreali F-21 “Kfirs” and later in 1989 they receive the F-5n and was flying Read More …
Harrier Attack in Meachem Field TX
The famous Blacksheep squadron VMA-214 from the days of Pappy Boyington in WW2 is now flying the AV-8B+ Harrier jump jets. VMA214 is currently base in MCAS Yuma m AZ. The current AV-8B have gone to a dark colored camouflage scheme as shown in the jet illustrated below. We Read More …
Prowler VMAQ-3 Moondogs in JRB Fr worth
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 …
Cowboys & Moonlighters in KNFW 12-1-2015
Cowboy 3-1 and 2 was heard over the radio chatter and here came 2x F-18A++ from our local units VMFA-112 Cowboys. They did instrument approaches and landed on Runway 36. The best thing of this catch came from the Boss bird in full color and also my 1st catches in this markings. T38C from Sheppard Read More …
KNFW 4-10-2015 Part 1 ( Harrier Attack)
Drill weekend for KNFW for our local 301st FW Spads. This weekend was like any Spring time traffic in NAS Ft worth. We got Spads 301st FW F-16 flying, Cowboys VMFA-112 F-18A++ , Lockheed Martin spot traffic of 2x F-35A from Luke AFB, F-35C from VFA-101, Iraqi F-16C Blk 52. We got some slow and Read More …
MCAS Yuma-Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course
I would like to welcome our new assistant Editor Steven Valinski from AZ. He will be covering our AZ spotting . This is his 1st article on the action Arizona Style. Chief Editor Dave Chng Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course, commonly known as WTI, is a twice-annual USMC training program Read More …
VFC-13 F-5n and AH-1W Video
HI All Video shots of the F-5n .. ( taken from Sung’s jerky hands) ….and AH-1W Digital ( from Dave Chng) [oqeygallery id=151]