Jones Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean in Long Island near New York City, just had its big Memorial Day Weekend Air Show on Saturday and Sunday, May 26th and 27th, 2018. The Jones Beach air show was officially called the “15th Anniversary Bethpage Air Show” not only in honor of the duration of the […]
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REPUBLIC AIRPORT – THE OTHER LONG ISLAND AIR SHOW!
Posted by Bill Sarama on June 7th, 2018
Posted in airshows, Anniversary Event, Museums, warbirds 
Tags: American Airpower Museum, Bethpage NY, Brumman Aircraft Company, Fairchild, Farmingdale NY Republic airport, Jones Beach Air Show, Seversky 
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Posted by Ken Kula on April 30th, 2015
Towards the end of the U.S. Armed Forces’ move from the piston age into the jet age, MASDC, and later AMARC, became chock full of surplus and obsolescent aircraft in a hurry. When I began visiting the Boneyard in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were still several Convair C-131 and T-29 aircraft still in […]
Posted in Museums, Uncategorized Tags: AMARC, Boeing Dash 80, C-117, C-118, C-130, C-131, C-47, Fairchild, MASDC, NAA Guppy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, T-28, T-29, T-33, T-38, T-46A, TF-9J, Tucson, Warbirds, YC-14, YC-15 Comments Off on MASDC, AMARC, AMARG, Some Snapshots in Time, Trainers and TransportsReading, PA WWII Weekend
Posted by davebudd on August 4th, 2014
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke those immortal words nearly seventy-three years ago and again, reenacted by Delmas P. Wood, in Reading, PA in remembrance […]
Posted in airshows, Bombers Tags: Air Corps, air raid warden, America, American infantry, Artie Shaw, Atlantic Air Museum, B-17G YANKEE, B-24 DIAMOND, B-24s, B-25D YANKEE, B-25J PANCHITO, B-25J TAKEOFF, B-29, Bill Riley, Bob Finch, Bob Grenz, Boeing, Boeing B-17G YANKEE, British Commonwealth, BT-13 VALIANT, Bud Abbott, C-46 TINKER, C-47D SECOND, co-pilot, Comfort, CORNELL, Curtiss-Wright, Daniel O. Myers, Delmas P. Wood, Doolittle Raiders Richard Cole, Douglas C-54E SPIRIT, Fairchild, Fairchild PT-19, food stuffs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, French Village, gas ration cards, Glenn Miller, Grumman, Guinea, Gulf filling station, Japan, Japanese island, Jim Beasely, Joe Ziegler, Larry Rutt, Let's Dance, Lou Costello, Mustang, New, Northrup Aircraft Company, Officers Club, oil, P-47D JACKY, P-51D, P-51Ds RED, P-61 Black Widow, Pennsylvania, president, PT-22, Reading, Red Cross, restored farm equipment, scrap metal, Supermarine Spitfire, Swing Fever, Theresa Eaman, United Kingdom's Commonwealth Day, United States, United States Army, US Coast Guard, V-J Day, WWII Comments Off on Reading, PA WWII Weekend