All photos provided by and taken by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sean Hetz and Master Sergeant Joseph A. Vigil. As 860036 was prepared for the boneyard, it’s flying boom was removed while still at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The all-volunteer crew was piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Pillion who was making his Fini Flight and […]
Archive for September, 2020
Two “Fini Flights” at Once!
Posted by Mike Colaner on September 26th, 2020
Posted in Aviation History, Military AIrcraft, Special Event, U.S. Air Force 
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Posted by Ken Kula on September 19th, 2020
BAC Strikemaster at Andrews AFB.
Posted in Aviation History, Aviation Photographers Comments Off on ClassicWarbirds.net Random Warbirds #7Looking Back at the 2002 NAS Norfolk Air Show
Posted by Howard German on September 12th, 2020
Continuing on a theme introduced a month ago; this is the second installment of photographs from airshows that I attended prior to the age of digital photography. I am not proceeding in any particular chronological order from my collection. I am merely examining the boxes upon boxes of photographs and pulling the best shows […]
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Posted by Ken Kula on September 6th, 2020
42nd Bomb Wing KC-135R based at Loring AFB, Maine. The base is now closed Air Force Base due to the BRAC. The two year period between 1989 and 1991 saw a pair of air shows at Massachusetts’ Hanscom AFB, to the west of Boston found in the suburb of Bedford. Twenty years has seen a […]
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