Every August, a wonderful air show takes place at the Camarillo Airport in Camarillo, California. With beautiful blue skies, moderate temperatures, a nice cool sea breeze, and sunlight that stays behind you the entire show, this air show draws tens of thousands of aviation fans from around the world. Camarillo Airport is home […]
Posts Tagged ‘Air Force’
2017’s Wings Over Camarillo Warbirds…
Posted by Steve Lewis on November 5th, 2017
Posted in airshows, Museums 
Tags: Air Force, Camarillo, Commemorative Air Force, Marines, Navy, Orbic Helicopters, Wings Over Camarillo 
Comments Off on 2017’s Wings Over Camarillo Warbirds…MASDC, AMARC, AMARG; Some Snapshots in Time, Bombers Part 1
Posted by Ken Kula on December 26th, 2014
During the early 1990s, mainly after the first Gulf War, the B-52D “Big Belly” and B-52G fleets were retired. The START 1 treaty was signed in 1991, and over 360 B-52 bombers ultimately took up residence at Davis-Monthan AFB, awaiting their demise with the scrappers. Most were earlier B-52C, -D, -E and -F versions that […]
Posted in Bombers Tags: Air Force, b-47, B-52, B-52D, B-52G, B-52H, Boeing, Boeing B-47s, Bombers, Cannon AFB, Davis-Monthan AFB, F-111, F-111Ds, F-111Es, FB-111A, General Dynamics, MASDC, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Royal Australian Air Force, scrappers, START 1, storage, United Kingdom, Upper Heyford, Varks Comments Off on MASDC, AMARC, AMARG; Some Snapshots in Time, Bombers Part 1MASDC, AMARC, AMARG… Some Snapshots in Time; Fighters Part 1
Posted by Ken Kula on December 6th, 2014
Not sure what these acronyms stand for? Here’s a more common nickname for these titles – the Boneyard. As in today’s 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (that’s AMARG), which occupies a large parcel of land on Tucson AZ’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Most of the U.S. military’s surplus aircraft are stored here, either for […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: 4105th Army Air Force Unit, Aerospace, Air Force, aircraft, Aircraft Storage Depot, AMARC, AMARG, Arizona, Army, B-29, Boneyard, C-47, Century Series, Coast Guard, Davis-Monthan, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Davis-Monthan Field, Disposition, Disposition Center, F-100, F-101, F-102, F-105, F-106, F-14, F-14s, F-15, F-16, F-18s, F-4, F-4s, F-8, Ken Kula, Marines, MASDC, Military, Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, NAS Litchfield Park, Navy, Pearl Harbor, Regeneration, Regeneration Group, Sonoran Desert, Tucson, U.S. Air Force, U.S. military, United States, weapons systems Comments Off on MASDC, AMARC, AMARG… Some Snapshots in Time; Fighters Part 1Kaman’s Huskie: An Early First Responder
Posted by Ken Kula on March 8th, 2014
Kaman’s H-43 Huskie helicopter was designed shortly after World War II, and served American military branches through the mid-1970s. Training and utility roles came first, but the important service of aircrew rescue for the U.S. Air Force stands out, especially during the early 1960s through the end of the Viet Nam war. The HH-43 enabled […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Air Force, Avco, B-52, Boeing, Canada, Columbia, combat search, Connecticut, engineer, F-94 Starfire, flash, Germany, Greenland, Honor, Iceland, important tool, Iran, K-125A, K-225, K-225s, Kaman Aircraft Corporation, Ken Kula, large metal, longer-ranged search, Lu Hallett, Major, Morocco, Myanmar, National Museum, Navy, New England Air Museum, northern U.S., Olympic Flight Museum of Olympia WA, Pakistan, pilot, Pratt and Whitney, Ramsay Research Library, rescue equipment, rescue services, rescue tools, Southeast Asia, T-53, T-6, Thailand, tilt-rotor search, U-Tapao air base, U.S. Air Force, U.S. military, United States, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, USAF's Air Rescue Service, William Pitsenbarger Comments Off on Kaman’s Huskie: An Early First Responder