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Aviation Nation 2009 – Sunday – Picture(s) A Day 15 November 2009 – Part II

As I said before, I had to cut this post into two parts.  So here’s part two for my readers to enjoy These pics of the PV-2 are for KC and Glenn It was a rare treat to see this warbird on display The A-10 Warthog is surely a terror to the enemies of the [...]

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Aviation Nation 2009 – Sunday – Picture(s) A Day 15 November 2009 – Part I

Yes, it was another wonderful day at Nellis Air Force Base and I’m again paying the price   I got to sleep last night very late and didn’t wake up this morning until about 1130 hours.  Yes, I knew this would be a heck of a weekend, so I took today off from work with [...]

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Aviation Nation 2009 – Picture(s) A Day – 14 November 2009

I can think of a few Jimmy Buffett songs that would fit my condition right now, but I’ll just quote him about it for now – “It’s my own damn fault!” Today was round 1 of my time at Aviation Nation 2009.  This has been a superb airshow all around   Between the quality static [...]

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Aviation Nation 2009 Wx Briefing

I’ll be leaving for Nellis in just a short while.  Yes, I’m running a bit late, but I really didn’t feel like waking up so early and I want to enjoy this year – no set schedule of people to meet and all   In years past, I’d have been running very late at this [...]

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Gettin’ Fired Up For Aviation Nation 2009!!!

I hope y’all will understand that I don’t have a picture for today.  I’ve been getting things together for this weekend’s airshow at Nellis I figure I’d post a few pics from last year – a few of my favorites.  I also thought it might be a good time to try out the gallery functionality [...]

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(Archive) Picture A Day – 25 August 2009

All I wanted to do after work today was come home and vegetate.  It’s been a heckuva week at work. With that in mind, I hope y’all understand if I dig back into the archives for something you haven’t seen yet.  The F4U is one of my all time favorite warbirds with its inverted gull [...]

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My Favorite F-117 Pictures Evah! (Retroactive Picture of the day for 10 May 2009)

I stumbled across the first picture in this post again while I was working on the all black and white picture post. It’s one of my favorite ever pictures of the F-117. I figured I’d share the rest of the pictures from that series here These pictures were taken at MCAS Miramar during the night [...]

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Fun With Airshow Pictures

I have a program on my computer at work which changes my desktop background every fifteen minutes. As you probably suspect, I’ve got it set up with all sorts of pictures of airplanes A couple of these pictures caught my eye again. They were pictures I took at Nellis Air Force base during Aviation Nation [...]

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Aviation Nation 2007 – VIDEO!!!

I know it’s been a long time since I actually took this video, but I finally got it edited and uploaded to YouTube Aviation Nation is the name of the airshow that’s held every year at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nellis is the home of the Thunderbirds and their last show [...]

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Plane Pr0n – Korean War Style

Today we look back to the “forgotten war” – Korea. Above we see the North American F-86 Sabre Jet. This was America’s best fighter during the Korean war. It was slower in a climb than its adversary the MiG-15 and couldn’t fly quite as high, but it was also faster in a dive and posessed [...]

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