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The Combined History of the Wrights and Aviation [News, 31 May 1912]

The Combined History of the Wrights and Aviation [News, 31 May 1912]

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

A P-51 Mustang displaying World War II D-Day markings

A P-51 Mustang displaying World War II D-Day markings

A P-51 Mustang displaying World War II D-Day markings is parked at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base prior to flying in the Thunder Over The Boardwalk Air Show at Atlantic City, N.J., Aug. 17, 2004. (U.... More

Sailors stand by as the aircraft carrier USS Ronald

Sailors stand by as the aircraft carrier USS Ronald

Sailors stand by as the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls alongside the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) for a replenishment-at-sea. Yukon transferred 1.1... More

‘Old Glory’ soars downrange for service members

‘Old Glory’ soars downrange for service members

Sgt. Michael Misheff, CH-47F Chinook helicopter chew chief for Task Force Flying Dragons, flies the American flag over southern Afghanistan Aug. 28. Task Force Raptor pilots and crew chiefs fly American flags t... More

Raptors prep Black Hawks for flight

Raptors prep Black Hawks for flight

Task Force Tigershark UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter crew chiefs and maintainers conduct preflight inspections on an airfram May 18 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

Flying Dragons get body work done

Flying Dragons get body work done

Members of Company D, Task Force Flying Dragons, hoist the front rotor off of a Ch-47F Chinook helicopter May 24 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, as part of routine maintenance. TF Flying Dragons supports TF ... More

Flying Dragons carry FOB Apache retrograde

Flying Dragons carry FOB Apache retrograde

CH-47F Chinook helicopter pilots and crew chiefs from Task Force Flying Dragons unload Task Force Mountain Warrior Soldiers and equipment Aug. 24 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in support of U.S. retrograde... More

Joint Base Charleston Air Expo 2011

Joint Base Charleston Air Expo 2011

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team performs a pass during the 2011 Charleston Air Expo at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., April 9, 2011. The expo was attended by more than 80,000 spectators and fea... More

Flying Dragons carry load for FOB Apache

Flying Dragons carry load for FOB Apache

CH-47F Chinook helicopter pilots and crew chiefs from Task Force Flying Dragons work together with sling load personnel from Task Force Bellator to transport equipment from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, to Fo... More

The U.S. Air Force 2003 Heritage Flight F-15C Eagle,

The U.S. Air Force 2003 Heritage Flight F-15C Eagle,

The U.S. Air Force 2003 Heritage Flight F-15C Eagle, two P-51 Mustangs and an A-10 Thunderbolt II fly in formation at the Thunder Over The Boardwalk Air Show at Atlantic City, N.J., Aug. 27, 2003. Established i... More

A KC-135E Stratotanker with the 108th Air Refueling

A KC-135E Stratotanker with the 108th Air Refueling

A KC-135E Stratotanker with the 108th Air Refueling Wing, flanked by two F-16C Fighting Falcons from the 177th Fighter Wing, performs a flyby during the Thunder Over The Boardwalk Air Show, Atlantic City, N.J.,... More

A P-51 Mustang performs a flyby during the Thunder

A P-51 Mustang performs a flyby during the Thunder

A P-51 Mustang performs a flyby during the Thunder Over The Boardwalk Air Show, Atlantic City, N.J., Aug. 23, 2006. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released) (This image was cropped t... More

Arizona Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Royal

Arizona Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Royal

Arizona Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Royal Hazen and Chief Warrant Officer Jennifer Languell take off in an AH-64D Apache near Bamyan, Afghanistan, while deployed in support of Operation Enduring F... More

NATO AWACS to fly surveillance missions over Romania and Poland

NATO AWACS to fly surveillance missions over Romania and Poland

An E-3A aircraft takes-off from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen.

A T-34C Turbomentor from Training Air Wing (TRAWING)

A T-34C Turbomentor from Training Air Wing (TRAWING)

A T-34C Turbomentor from Training Air Wing (TRAWING) 4 taxis down the flight line at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi before takeoff. The aircraft is used to provide primary flight training to Navy, Marine Corp... More

Test flight, US Navy Photogrpah

Test flight, US Navy Photogrpah

An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft conducts a test flight. (Photo Courtesy Northrop Grumman/Released)

U.S. Airmen board an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter

U.S. Airmen board an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter

U.S. Airmen board an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a combat search and rescue training mission June 24, 2014, at Cellina Meduna training grounds near Maniago, Italy. The training provided Airmen with ... More

Rescue drills - Defense imagery management operations center

Rescue drills - Defense imagery management operations center

Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples Capodichino base Firefighters escort a victim from an airplane to safety during a simulated exercise between Vigili del Fuoco or Italia firefighters and NSA Naples firefighte... More

2009 N'awlins Air Show practice

2009 N'awlins Air Show practice

An F-22 Raptor from the U.S. Air Force's demonstration team performs maneuvers over Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS JRB) New Orleans. The Raptors are performing in the 2009 N'awlins Air Show on NAS JR... More

An F-22 Raptor from the U.S. Air Force's demonstration

An F-22 Raptor from the U.S. Air Force's demonstration

An F-22 Raptor from the U.S. Air Force's demonstration team performs maneuvers over Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS JRB) New Orleans. The Raptors are performing in the 2009 N'awlins Air Show on NAS JR... More

MQ-1 Predator on-the-job maintenance training

MQ-1 Predator on-the-job maintenance training

Maintainers from the 163d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prep an MQ-1 Predator for launch during on-the-job maintenance training at Southern California Logistics Airport.

Naval Air Station Oceana

Naval Air Station Oceana

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 103 sits on the flight line at Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., July 29, 2009. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist... More

Aircraft repair - Defense imagery management operations center

Aircraft repair - Defense imagery management operations center

Equipment Operator 3rd Class Craig Silvia, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion THREE (NMCB 3), Alfa Company, watches a C-130 engine propeller assembly from a crane booth September 23, 2009. The Seabees from NM... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Benjamin Laravie, 18th Component

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Benjamin Laravie, 18th Component

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Benjamin Laravie, 18th Component Maintenance Squadron test cell aerospace propulsion craftsman (left) and Senior Airman Andre Ingram, 18th CMS test cell aerospace propulsion journeyman... More

MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters

MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters

MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters assigned to the Night Dippers of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HSC) 5 land aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is underway preparing... More

A U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet is refueled by a 908th Expeditionary

A U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet is refueled by a 908th Expeditionary

A U.S. Navy F-18 Hornet is refueled by a 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-10A Extender over Afghanistan, Dec. 6, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller)

Aircraft maintenance, US Air Force Photo

Aircraft maintenance, US Air Force Photo

Senior Airman Joshua Kinsel a mechanic from Aircraft Maintenance at the Charleston, West Virginia 130th Air National Guard Yeager Airbase lubricates the paratroop door track on a C-130 during a standard 450 day... More

Joint Civilian Orientation Course

Joint Civilian Orientation Course

A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey flys over the Eglin Air Force Range, Fla. The Osprey demonstrated some of its capabilities to participants of the Joint Civilian Orientation Course (JCOC). JCOC is a Secretary of D... More

105th Airlift Wing participating in South African Aerospace and Defense Show

105th Airlift Wing participating in South African Aerospace and Defens...

New York Army National Guard Soldiers unload an OH-58 helicopter from an Air Force C-5 during the 2010 African Aerospace and Defense Show at Air Force Base Waterkloof.

Staff Sgt. Sang Lee, a Thunderbird aircrew flight equipment

Staff Sgt. Sang Lee, a Thunderbird aircrew flight equipment

Staff Sgt. Sang Lee, a Thunderbird aircrew flight equipment specialist, fits Mr. Baron Wiley's mask up in preparation for his media flight at Kelly Air Field, Texas, Nov. 5, 2010. The Thunderbirds fly a local o... More

Senior Airman Alexander Van Nice, a crew chief with

Senior Airman Alexander Van Nice, a crew chief with

Senior Airman Alexander Van Nice, a crew chief with the 176th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, marshals in a C-130 from the 144th Airlift Squadron, Feb. 12, 2011. The aircraft was flown from Kulis to Joint Base E... More

Aircraft from 176th Wing were flown from Kulis to Joint

Aircraft from 176th Wing were flown from Kulis to Joint

Aircraft from 176th Wing were flown from Kulis to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson during a ceremonial flight. The Wing is relocating from Kulis to JBER per the 2005 Defense Base Realignment and Closure proposal... More

Dismantling the system - A man on a high voltage tower working on a power line

Dismantling the system - A man on a high voltage tower working on a po...

Senior Airman Jeremy Thatcher, 85th Engineering Installation Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss., communicates with other team members Feb. 15, 2011, as they remove angle bolt plates from tower legs... More

Capt. Paul "Butkus" Haas breaks formation in an F/A-18F

Capt. Paul "Butkus" Haas breaks formation in an F/A-18F

Capt. Paul "Butkus" Haas breaks formation in an F/A-18F Super Hornet of the "Black Aces" from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41 after being relieved as commander, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 during an aerial change... More

Working together - Defense imagery management operations center

Working together - Defense imagery management operations center

Senior Airmen John Drum and Kelvin Williams, 8th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, get ready to install a hi-stage line on a C-17 Globemaster III, March 7. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Liliana Mo... More

Repair facility - Defense imagery management operations center

Repair facility - Defense imagery management operations center

Staff Sgt. Colby Dunn, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, inspects aircraft components for cracks and defects that are clear and open to the surface. The 379 EMXS Engine Centralized repair facility repai... More

Maintaining upkeep - Defense imagery management operations center

Maintaining upkeep - Defense imagery management operations center

Tech. Sgt. Dennis Oberhauser, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, replaces a panel from a C-130 engine March 15. The 379 EMXS Engine Centralized repair facility is responsible for inspecting and maintain... More

Taking a closer look - Defense imagery management operations center

Taking a closer look - Defense imagery management operations center

Master Sgt. Trent Hansen, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, inspects a pinion bearing of a C-130 aircraft, March 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Liliana Moreno) .

The crowd edging the flightline during Over the Bay

The crowd edging the flightline during Over the Bay

The crowd edging the flightline during Over the Bay open house and air show at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss., March 19 and 29, 2011, was estimated at 100,000 spectators. The two-day event broke previous... More

Operation Odyssey Dawn - A military helicopter sitting on top of an airport tarmac

Operation Odyssey Dawn - A military helicopter sitting on top of an ai...

One of four CV22 Osprey from Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., parks at Lajes Field, the Azores, Portugal, on March 22 en route to support Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn. Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn was the U.S. Af... More

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Air Show

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Air Show

A formation of World War II-era aircraft participates in the air show at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., March 26, 2011. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ken Kalemkarian/Released)

Aircraft takeoff - Defense imagery management operations center

Aircraft takeoff - Defense imagery management operations center

An E-8 Joint Surveillance Attack Radar System aircraft takes off from an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, March 27, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Liliana Moreno/Released)

A T-45C Goshawk assigned to Carrier Training Wing (CTW)

A T-45C Goshawk assigned to Carrier Training Wing (CTW)

A T-45C Goshawk assigned to Carrier Training Wing (CTW) 1 comes in to land on the flight deck of USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), March 31. George H.W. Bush is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting training o... More

Home station check, US Air Force Photo

Home station check, US Air Force Photo

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Hurst inspects an engine of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during a bi-annual home station check at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., April 15, 2011. Hurst is a crew chief assigne... More

USS Mason vertical replenishment

USS Mason vertical replenishment

U.S. Sailors aboard an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 43, lower a bag to Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) during a verti... More

Flight training - Defense imagery management operations center

Flight training - Defense imagery management operations center

U.S. Soldiers with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade conduct terrain flight training aboard a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at the Training Support Center of U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach, Germany, Sept. 28, 2011. The S... More

Wiping down an F/A-18C Hornet (CVN-74)

Wiping down an F/A-18C Hornet (CVN-74)

Aviation Electronics Technician Airman Kyetta Penn, from Jacksonville, Fla., wipes down an F/A-18C Hornet from the Golden Dragons of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 192 aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier US... More

US COAST GUARD Aviation news, CHESAPEAKE BAY, VIRGINIA

US COAST GUARD Aviation news, CHESAPEAKE BAY, VIRGINIA

CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Coast Guard Vice Commandant Vice Adm. Sally Brice-O'Hara makes the keynote address during the 2011 Women's History and Equality Celebration at Communications Area Master Station Atlantic (CAMS... More

Strike Eagle in the EOR

Strike Eagle in the EOR

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jackie Cook readies an F-15E Strike Eagle for post-flight checks on Sept. 30, 2011. Cook is a crew chief deployed from Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht)

US COAST GUARD Aviation News ARLINGTON VIRGINIA

US COAST GUARD Aviation News ARLINGTON VIRGINIA

ARLINGTON, Va. - Photo of events during a Flags Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery Nov. 5, 2011. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley.

NATO international civilians at E-3A Component exemplify diversity and professionalism

NATO international civilians at E-3A Component exemplify diversity and...

An E-3A aircraft technician works on an engine while deployed to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force.

U.S. Navy Adm. Jim Stavridis, U.S. European Command

U.S. Navy Adm. Jim Stavridis, U.S. European Command

U.S. Navy Adm. Jim Stavridis, U.S. European Command commander and NATO supreme allied commander Europe, filmed an American Forces Network commercial in Hangar 1 here Dec. 14. During his familiarization tour, St... More

22nd SOPS adds new-generation antennas

22nd SOPS adds new-generation antennas

A Remote Tracking Station Block Change antenna is installed at Kaena Point Tracking Station, Hawaii, in January 2012. The 50th Space Wing earned operational acceptance of the antenna along with three other RBC ... More

Arizona Black Hawk pilot flies to make a difference

Arizona Black Hawk pilot flies to make a difference

Army 1st Lt. Amanda Birch, a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot with the Arizona Army National Guard’s 2/285th Air Assault Helicopter Battalion, Alpha Company, prepares for a night mission during Operation Angel Thunder 20... More

Lance Cpl. Branden I. Mangus, a Canton, Ga., native,

Lance Cpl. Branden I. Mangus, a Canton, Ga., native,

Lance Cpl. Branden I. Mangus, a Canton, Ga., native, observes the ground from the rear hatch of an MV-22B Osprey titlrotor aircraft May 6 during routine training at Kadena Air Base Area and Marine Corps Air Sta... More

African Partnership Flight

African Partnership Flight

Togolese air force Lt. Col. Djoguigou Baramna-Boukpessi, background, the transport pilot chief of operations, lays out a movement search and rescue signal during the inaugural African Partnership Flight (APF) M... More

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class David Howard, 317th

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class David Howard, 317th

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class David Howard, 317th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, marshals the newest C-130J Super Hercules Aug. 29, 2012, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The aircraft, delivered personally by ... More

Col. Brock Gaston of the Georgia Army National Guard

Col. Brock Gaston of the Georgia Army National Guard

Col. Brock Gaston of the Georgia Army National Guard is given an aerial tour of CFB Suffield by Capt. Chris Smith in a British Gazelle helicopter. The British Army uses Canadian Forces Base Suffield to put thei... More

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 510th Fighter Squadron takes off at Aviano Air Base, Italy, April 9, 2014. From April 10-17, the U.S. and Romanian Air Forces will conduct a bilate... More

VMGR-252 aerial refuels HMX-1 during trans-Atlantic flight

VMGR-252 aerial refuels HMX-1 during trans-Atlantic flight

An MV-22B Osprey with Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 receives fuel from a KC-130J Super Hercules from Marine Aerial Refeuler Transport Squadron 252 over the Atlantic May 28, 2014. The Osprey, along with three oth... More

Getting ready for the unexpected

Getting ready for the unexpected

First Lt. Matt Alexander, a Georgia Army National Guard Aero Medical Evacuation pilot in Charlie Company, 1-111th General Support Aviation Battalion traveled from Georgia to Massachusetts in January 2013 to com... More

Cope North ‘14 commences on Guam

Cope North ‘14 commences on Guam

Aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and Royal Australian Air Force fly in formation over the Pacific Ocean in support of exercise Cope North 2013, Andersen Air Force Base,... More

An F/A-18G Super Hornet from the "Zappers" of Electronic

An F/A-18G Super Hornet from the "Zappers" of Electronic

An F/A-18G Super Hornet from the "Zappers" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 launches from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman, flagship for the Harry S. Truman Carrier Stri... More

Senior Airman Andrew Goffeney, 1st Special Operations

Senior Airman Andrew Goffeney, 1st Special Operations

Senior Airman Andrew Goffeney, 1st Special Operations Security Forces Squadron combat arms journeyman, practices using a small unmanned aerial system simulator in a unit training room at Hurlburt Field, Fla., M... More

Members of the Virginia Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion,

Members of the Virginia Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion,

Members of the Virginia Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment land a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after transporting Soldiers to Guatemala city during Operation Beyond the Horizon April 28... More

A Sailor directs a F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to

A Sailor directs a F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to

A Sailor directs a F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to the "Fighting Black Lions” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 213 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is ... More

Black Hawk takes off. Camp Navajo, Ariz.

Black Hawk takes off. Camp Navajo, Ariz.

An Arizona Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter takes off from Camp Navajo, Ariz., after a VIP visited with guard soldiers, June 25, 2013. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Brian A. Barbour/RELEASED)

Model KC-135 - Defense imagery management operations center

Model KC-135 - Defense imagery management operations center

Tech. Sgt. Tom Andrukiewicz, aircraft structural mechanic, 168th Maintenance Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, displays the model KC-135 he is building from discarded aluminum cans and recycled scrap metal. ... More

U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Dailey, right,

U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Dailey, right,

U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Dailey, right, command sergeant major of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, and Sgt. 1st Class Johnathan Squires, assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 13th Avi... More

The 513th Air Control Group to inactivate

The 513th Air Control Group to inactivate

The 513th Air Control Group, the only Reserve unit that performs the Airborne Warning and Control System mission, is slated to inactivate if the fiscal year 2015 Department of Defense budget is enacted into law... More

Keesler Air Force Base TRW

Keesler Air Force Base TRW

Brig. Gen. Patrick Higby, 81st Training Wing commander, receives briefings on base resources, plans, programs and exercise evaluations from inside the Keesler Command Center during an immersion tour of the 81st... More

MH-60R Seahawk maintenance, San Diego, California

MH-60R Seahawk maintenance, San Diego, California

Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class Tyler Nguyen assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78 performs maintenance on an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter at Naval Air Station North Island. HSM 78 is ... More

Col. George Tombe, 81st Training Group commander, is

Col. George Tombe, 81st Training Group commander, is

Col. George Tombe, 81st Training Group commander, is escorted by Master Sgt. Wesley Bonin, 403rd Wing, to a U.S. Air Force C-130J to participate in a tandem jump over Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., Sept. 25, 20... More

Army 2nd Lt. Lindsey Jefferies, a Black Hawk helicopter

Army 2nd Lt. Lindsey Jefferies, a Black Hawk helicopter

Army 2nd Lt. Lindsey Jefferies, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot with C Company, 1st Battalion, 131st Aviation, 449th Theater Aviation Brigade, stands on her assigned helicopter, in Fort Rucker, Ala., in October 2... More

An Air Station Elizabeth City aircrew prepares to depart

An Air Station Elizabeth City aircrew prepares to depart

An Air Station Elizabeth City aircrew prepares to depart Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2013. The crew flew Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp during the day. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Pat... More

Col. Mark Anderson, 188th Fighter Wing commander, prepares

Col. Mark Anderson, 188th Fighter Wing commander, prepares

Col. Mark Anderson, 188th Fighter Wing commander, prepares to land at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith, Ark., following a training mission Dec. 30, 2013. The sortie was one of the last four-ship train... More

E/A-18G Growler maintenance aboard USS Ronald Reagan

E/A-18G Growler maintenance aboard USS Ronald Reagan

Sailors assigned to the "Gauntlets" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 136 perform maintenance on the wing of an E/A-18G Growler aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is current... More

A Canadian CF-18 Hornet fighter jet from 409 Squadron

A Canadian CF-18 Hornet fighter jet from 409 Squadron

A Canadian CF-18 Hornet fighter jet from 409 Squadron receives fuel from a Canadian CC-150T Polaris Airbus from 437 Squadron during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, 49 ships and si... More

An MH-60 Sea Hawk assigned to the "Black Knights" of

An MH-60 Sea Hawk assigned to the "Black Knights" of

An MH-60 Sea Hawk assigned to the "Black Knights" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 lifts supplies from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) during a r... More

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Ryan

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Ryan

Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Ryan Tillis, from Oakhurst, N.J., signals "catapult ready" as he returns to the shot line on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). R... More

U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft from Marine

U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft from Marine

U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 161 prepare to land on the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPA... More

Senior Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Rudolpho

Senior Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Rudolpho

Senior Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Rudolpho Oliva, left, from San Antonio, and Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Gary Armstrong, from Rockford, Ill., guide an E2-C Hawkeye assigned t... More

USS Ronald Reagan flight operations during RIMPAC 2014

USS Ronald Reagan flight operations during RIMPAC 2014

An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Bounty Hunters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 2 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is underway for Rim of t... More

USS Ronald Reagan flight deck

USS Ronald Reagan flight deck

An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to the “Blue Blasters” of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 34, launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is underway after suc... More

F/A-18 Super Hornets, assigned to Carrier Air Wing

F/A-18 Super Hornets, assigned to Carrier Air Wing

F/A-18 Super Hornets, assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 and embarked on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), perform aerial maneuvers. Ronald Reagan is participating in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC... More

Cmdr. Joel Becker, air boss of the aircraft carrier

Cmdr. Joel Becker, air boss of the aircraft carrier

Cmdr. Joel Becker, air boss of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), oversees catapult maintenance. Ronald Reagan is at homeport at Naval Base Coronado. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Special... More

USS Ronald Reagan flight deck activity

USS Ronald Reagan flight deck activity

A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 137 launches from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Pacific Ocean March 31, 2014. This launch marked the ... More

USS Ronald Reagan flight deck

USS Ronald Reagan flight deck

An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to the "Blue Blasters" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34, lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is underway, conducting tailored ... More

Foggy A-10 morning - Defense imagery management operations center

Foggy A-10 morning - Defense imagery management operations center

An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 107th Fighter Squadron is parked beneath a shelter on a foggy morning at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., on Jan. 11, 2014. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by TSgt. Robe... More

Seahawk lands aboard USS Halyburton

Seahawk lands aboard USS Halyburton

An SH-60R Seahawk helicopter assigned to the Grandmasters of Helicopter Maritime Squadron (HSM) 46 lands aboard the guided-missile frigate USS Halyburton (FFG 40). A detachment from HSM-46 is deploying with Hal... More

109th Airlift Wing ends 2013-2014 Antarctic season with mission to move more than 1,100 people from ice

109th Airlift Wing ends 2013-2014 Antarctic season with mission to mov...

An LC-130 Skibird from the New York Air National Guard is jacked up on the frozen ice shelf of Pegasus Field Jan. 16, 2014, after aircrew discovered a landing gear issue. The maintenance crews of the 109th Airl... More

A coalition security force member pulls security before

A coalition security force member pulls security before

A coalition security force member pulls security before boarding a MH-47 Chinook Helicopter during an operation to capture a Taliban commander on Jan. 18, 2014, in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Afgha... More

USS Boxer operations, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Boxer operations, US Navy Photogrpah

Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class Thomas Stoner, from Portland, Ore., and Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Amanda Holbert, from Doylestown, Ohio, replace hydraulic fluid on an MH-60S Seahawk helicopt... More

Hawaii - Super Stallions

Hawaii - Super Stallions

U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallions assigned to HMLA-367, land to refuel in preparation for 81mm mortar platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 3D Marines (1/3), to conduct a 2 hour fast roping assignment aboar... More

U.S. Air Force fighter pilots, Maj. Madison Woo and

U.S. Air Force fighter pilots, Maj. Madison Woo and

U.S. Air Force fighter pilots, Maj. Madison Woo and Maj. Stephen Kaminski with the 157th Fighter Squadron at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina Air National Guard, rush to launch F-16 Fighting F... More

Falcon Defender - A military helicopter flying over a body of water

Falcon Defender - A military helicopter flying over a body of water

Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon Renfroe takes photos from an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26, during a photo-exercise in the Arabian Gulf. HSC-26 i... More

Cpl. Kyle D. Malone packs and prepares his double-bag

Cpl. Kyle D. Malone packs and prepares his double-bag

Cpl. Kyle D. Malone packs and prepares his double-bag static line parachute Jan. 23 at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. U.S. Marines and New Zealand service members began a high-altitude, high-opening DBS... More

F-16 Fighter Falcons from the South Dakota Air National

F-16 Fighter Falcons from the South Dakota Air National

F-16 Fighter Falcons from the South Dakota Air National Guard sit under sunshades while maintainers and pilots prepare for takeoff at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Jan. 23, 2014. Ten F-16s and 150 Guards... More

Engineers for the Marion, Va.-based 760th Engineer

Engineers for the Marion, Va.-based 760th Engineer

Engineers for the Marion, Va.-based 760th Engineer Company, attached to the Little Rock, Ark.-based 489th Engineer Battalion, work to prepare re-locatable buildings at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan Jan. 27 tha... More

U.S. Air Force Capt. Michael, 4th Expeditionary

U.S. Air Force Capt. Michael, 4th Expeditionary

U.S. Air Force Capt. Michael, 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron mission commander, does preflight checks on an MC-12W Liberty at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Jan. 27, 2014. The MC-12W provides critica... More

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