Last week, I had the chance to get some air to air images of San Jose Police Department’s Air Support Units’ EC-120. What made this a special shoot was that over the past few years, I’ve gotten to know the men and women of the Air Support Unit and consider them friends. If they are [...]

Once a year, about 120 kids stricken with cancer are given an day where they can be be “normal” and celebrate the holiday as it was meant to be….with family, fun, games, Santa Claus, gifts and lots of laughter and smiles. And thanks to the Cops Care Cancer Foundation, for that one afternoon, these kids [...]

A little over a week ago approximately 65 Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing boarded 3 C-17‘s from the 446th Airlift Wing and began a 4 month journey to provide combat search and rescue support for Operation Enduring Freedom.  The McChord based C-17′s were fully loaded with pilots, aircrew, maintainers, support personnel, three [...]

Yesterday approximately 30 Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing based at Moffett Field, CA boarded two MC-130Ps and left behind their friends, family and coworkers and headed off to Djibouti, Africa. While heartbreaking for their families, these brave Guardsmen deployed to provide combat search and rescue support for Combined Joint Task Force Horn [...]

What do you get when you combine one the founders of a major international electronics company and his wife;  a producer, a camera man, and a famous tv personality from a local entertainment program; 4 average Bay Area locals; the worlds only female Zeppelin pilot; one uber cool fight attendant; and one confused blogger at [...]

At 1440 PST VDA4571 checked in with Moffett Tower and was cleared to land on Runway 32R. 10 years ago, this would have never happened and if it did, it surely would have been the end of our way of life here in the Bay Area.

Yesterday I had a chance to witness the greatest thing anyone can see, a smile upon the face of a sick child. The San Jose Police Department’s Air Support Unit Hangar 211 at Moffett Field, CA was transformed into the ‘North Pole’ for the 4th annual Cops Care Cancer Foundation Fantasy Flight for children with [...]

As with many missions where lives are at stake, teams often work in pairs. Last week I was allowed a rare opportunity to fly aboard one of the 129th Rescue Squadrons’ HH-60G Pave Hawks and witness some of the skills and maneuvers that they constantly practice when they are called upon to save lives.

“JOLLY92, cleared for take off.” With those words, the aircrew of a lone helicopter sets off on another ‘routine’ mission where lives could be hanging in the balance. Mission planning, equipment, and training all become second nature and a tool to accomplish the mission: Saving Lives.

VFA-122 “Flying Eagles” was in town after their flyover for the SF 49ers game on Sunday. After the two ship of F/A-18F Super Hornets buzzed the football fans at Candlestick, EXPRT 99, flight of two, landed at Moffett. They brought their CAG (Commander of the Air Group) Bird, NJ 100 for the festivities and it [...]