Photos by Gerhard Frenz Photography The Commemorative Air Force’s Dixie Wing offered its’ Atlanta Warbird Weekend over the last weekend in September, 2016. Splashed through their advertisements, the Wing was quite specific that the “Atlanta Warbird Weekend is NOT an air show. It is a warbird display, aircraft rides, and history education event.” Sure, warbirds […]
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Atlanta’s Warhawk Weekend
Posted by Ken Kula on October 18th, 2016
Posted in 1940s, Commemorative Air Force, Fighters, Military Veterans, Museums, Transports, Warbirds, World War II 
Tags: "Keep 'em Flying", American Airpower Museum, American Volunteer Group, Atlanta Warbird Weekend, AVG, C-46, C-47, CBI, China Burma India Theatre of Operations, Commemorative Air Force Dixie Wing, Curtiss P-40, DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, Kittyhawk, NAS Atlanta, Texas Flying Legends Museum, The Hump, Warhawk 
Comments OffReading PA World War II Weekend, 2016
Posted by Daniel O. Myers on August 16th, 2016
For twenty-six years the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum located at the Reading, Pa Regional Airport has conducted its World War II Weekend. Consistently attracting a large audience to any venue constantly requires something new and exciting. And that’s just what the Reading show has done for more than two decades. Drawing attention to this year’s show […]
Posted in 1940s, airshows, Bombers, Commemorative Air Force, Fighters, L-Birds, Military Veterans, Museums, Trainers, Transports, U.S. Army, Warbirds, World War II Tags: C-47, Field Artillery Pilots, Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Mosquito, parachutes, Pathfinders, Piper L-4, Reading PA, Reading World War II Weekend, Spitfire Comments Off2016 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show
Posted by Ken Kula on July 1st, 2016
When the featured performer of the 2016 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air show cancelled their appearance, a few people commented on social media sites that they were going to skip the annual event at Quonset State Airport. The USAF Thunderbirds’ stand down, after a non-fatal crash in Colorado a little over a week […]
Posted in airshows, Formation Flight, Museums, Warbirds Tags: A-1E Skyraider, American Airpower Museum, C-47, Collings foundation, F4U Corsair, Mark Murphy, P-51D Never Miss, photo passes, Quonset Air Museum, Quonset Point RI, RI National Huard Open House Air Show Comments OffMy 2015 Air Show Finale Weekend
Posted by Ken Kula on November 20th, 2015
The distance “as the crow flies” between NAS Pensacola and Moody AFB is just 280 miles. What a coincidence that this pair of military air bases would host the final large events of the 2015 North American air show season, being so close to each other. Two of the U.S.’s top military flight demonstration […]
