With an unused airline ticket in my bank, I returned to the Wings Over Houston Airshow for a second year in a row after the official announcement that it was a go for October 9-11. In this Covid-19 year of 2020, any airshow is a reason to be thankful. A trend that had begun […]
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Remembering the Manchester, New Hampshire Air Shows…
Posted by Ken Kula on November 14th, 2020
Geneseo, New York based B-127 and London, Ontario based P-51D on the ramp at Manchester, New Hampshire in the 1990s. Manchester, New Hampshire is located in the southern tier of state. It’s a fifty-minute drive to the Seacoast area and into the Atlantic Ocean, and about the same amount of driving south, to the […]
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Comments Off on Remembering the Manchester, New Hampshire Air Shows…Hanscom AFB’s 1989 and 1991 Air Shows
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 […]
Posted in A-6 Intruder, airshows, Aviation History, EA-6B Prowler, Grumman, Helicopters, Military AIrcraft, Trainers, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, warbirds Comments Off on Hanscom AFB’s 1989 and 1991 Air ShowsBLUEBEARD 5
Posted by Mike Colaner on May 2nd, 2020
BLUEBEARD 5, the sole remaining RH-53D survivor of Operation EAGLE CLAW There is a rare and unique helicopter that sits vigilant as a gate guardian at the Wrightstown Gate of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) in New Jersey. However, the very existence of this helicopter and how it become displayed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst New […]