Wednesday brought about a day to give the planes a brief break from flying and let the maintainers have a go at them. A common saying in any air force across the world is that it’s the maintainers jets and the pilots just “borrow” them.  So it was time to fix the wire ups and […]

Hello again from my adventure at Mountain Home. Tuesday has come and gone, and another solid day of practice for Red Flag is under the Indian Air Force’s belts. With 91 officers and 156 personnel, the IAF brought eight SU-30 MK-I aircraft, two IL-78 air-to-air refuellers and one IL-76 transport aircraft to Mountain Home AFB […]

Hello everyone for another exciting adventure. This week I’m out here at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho covering the Indian Air Force’s workups for the Red Flag Exercise. For the first time every, the Indian Air Force is participating in the worlds elite aerial combat training exercise held annually at Nellis AFB, Nevada.  247 Indian men […]

Oddly enough, the one shot that was escaping me all week was a simple B-2 taking off. Public Affairs had done an outstanding job lining up so many cool and interesting tours and interviews, that it was hard to align the take off and departure times of the B-2 to the gaps in my schedule. […]

8am came very early on Day 4. As you may have noticed, I didn’t post a blog on my last night at Whiteman AFB. I gave myself the night off and decided to have a little fun. But more on that later on. This Friday was a special day for a lot of […]

“FAST 31, Whiteman Tower, Cleared for take off Runway 19. REAPR 21 is 10 miles initial for Runway 19.” And so the adventure of a lifetime began.

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When you have the most expensive bomber in the world on your base, security is beyond impressive. Whiteman AFB is a base within a base. Early this morning, I was allowed by the flight line maintenance crews to come out and take some pictures of the B-2 Stealth Bomber in it’s “Dock”, or hanger, as […]

BAILOUT! BAILOUT! BAILOUT! 10-13 G’s later and just like that the canopy of my T-38 was gone.  Plummeting towards the earth at an alarming speed, I saw our T-38 from the 394th Combat Training Squadron at Whiteman AFB arc towards the Earth. Or at least that is what would happen if I ever had to […]

Hello everyone.  Warm weather and blue skies can only mean one thing; it’s airshow season once again.  And here in the Bay Area, the first major airshow of the year is Vertical Challenge at the Hiller Aviation Museum.  The largest all helicopter airshow in the United States bring some serious rotor power with it each […]

The workhorse of the Air Force has gotten a fresh start in Afghanistan and Iraq. The once-discarded A-10 Thunderbolt II is proving its worthiness once again as a powerful asset to the JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controllers) community. Offering eyes and lethal strike capability, the A-10 is a key player at Atlantic Strike VII.

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