NARRATIVE & IMAGES BY MARK ROURKE Anatolian Eagle 2023 Konya air base in Central Turkey almost always reverberates to the sound of fast jets as it is home to the 3rd Air Wing. The 3rd Air Wing after all has 132 Filo and its General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons sharing the airspace with the iconic…
July 2022 saw the welcome return of the biennial Farnborough International Airshow after a 4-year gap following the cancelled 2020 event
July 2022 saw the welcome return of the biennial Farnborough International Airshow after a 4-year gap following the cancelled 2020 event
NAS Point Mugu held its annual Gray Flag 2022 event from 22nd August to 2nd September 2022.
After a gap of a few years the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford returned with a bang.
With TOP GUN: MAVERICK hitting the movie theaters, and with Pixelsniper’s recent visit to NAS Fallon – the home of TOPGUN – notice the different layout of the words – yeah it is important – we thought it is a good time to write an article on “a day at Fallon”.
Think of the 168th Air Refueling Squadron (ARS) of the 168th Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard (AKANG) as the last gas station of the last frontier. With a fleet of nine KC-135R Stratotankers, the 168th ARS serves not only the guard units but also the active-duty Air Force units as well as any allied nation’s units as they transit to and from the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions.
Once again Gando air base on Gran Canaria reverberated to the sounds of fast jets as the annual DACT (Dissimilar Air Combat Training) exercise Ocean Sky opened on October 19th 2021. Pixelsnipers were there to witness the action.
With COVID restrictions affecting the Global aviation industry negatively at unprecedented levels the airport of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria is a mere shadow of the usual hive of activity it normally experiences from the holidaymakers seeking sun and sangria on the Canary Islands.
For nearly 50 years the silence in the area surrounding Hyakuri air base north of Tokyo has been broken by the sound of the twin General Electric J-79 engines of the locally based McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms (known locally by the nickname ‘Samurai’) starting up for their daily tasks.
