Airshow Reports

Edwards AFB Airshow & Open House 2022

By | November 20th, 2022|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|Tags: , , , , , , |

Edwards AFB Airshow & Open House 2022 Edwards AFB Airshow & Open House 2022: In the 13 years since Edwards air force base last hosted an air show, a lot has changed. Fifth generation aircraft now rule the skies and innovation is driving new technologies for America and her allies. [...]

NAS Lemoore – Airshow 2019

By | October 25th, 2019|Categories: Airshow Reports|Tags: , , , , , |

Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California, has been a key location on the map since its completion in 1961, fulfilling a requirement to support the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy. After eight years, NAS Lemoore returned to the US airshow calendar. Lockheed Martin F-35C VFA-125 Rough Raiders NAS [...]

Royal International Air Tattoo 2018

By | September 17th, 2018|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

With over 300 aircraft arriving at RAF Fairford to help celebrate the Royal Air Force’s centenary, AeroResource’s Jamie Ewan joined the masses descending on the airfield with one question on his mind – would the Royal Air Force and Douglas Bader House (DBH) pull out all the stops for what [...]

Joint Base Andrews Air Show 2017

By | November 23rd, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

Situated just across the Potomac River from Washington DC, Joint Base Andrews is home to a number of units that include the Presidential Airlift Group. Over the weekend of September 16-17 though, the base opened its doors to the public for the Joint Base Andrews Air Show 2017. Adam Duffield [...]

Royal International Air Tattoo 2017

By | September 1st, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

Tracing its roots back to North Weald in the year of 1971, the first Air Tattoo saw just 100 aircraft from across Europe descend on the Essex found airfield – the idea of the show having been the brainchild of two Air Traffic Controllers. Fast-forward four and a half decades, [...]

RNAS Yeovilton International Airday 2017

By | July 27th, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

Back in 1947, the very first Yeovilton air show took place at its namesake’s Royal Navy Air Station (RNAS) found in Somerset. Now, some 7 decades later and the RNAS Yeovilton International Airday 2017 is one of the most highly anticipated shows of the UK airshow season. With the Airday [...]

RAF Cosford Air Show 2017

By | July 8th, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

AeroResource’s Jamie Ewan and Niall Paterson – along with James Innes – were among some 50,000 people dropping in on the RAF’s sole airshow. With types such as Whirlwind, B-52, B-1B and Tornado gracing the flying display, would the show have enough to take ‘top spot’ this early on in [...]

Shuttleworth Fly Navy 2017

By | July 6th, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

When the Shuttleworth Collection announced that their 2017 calendar would feature another Fly Navy event, many ‘pencilled’ it in – both those with the memories of last year’s hugely successful edition and those who had heard about arguably ‘the top UK show of 2016’. That said, would 2017 match or [...]

Duxford Air Festival 2017

By | June 21st, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

The Duxford Air Festival 2017 was the first of the three major air display events to be held at the Cambridgeshire airfield this year. With a strong lineup spanning almost the entire history of aviation, Adam Duffield headed to the Saturday of the two day show for AeroResource. Additional images from [...]

Abingdon Air and Country Show 2017

By | June 12th, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

Abingdon Air and Country Show has always been a traditional season opener taking place at the very start of May. However, as comes with the territory of being ‘the first’ it has also suffered in previous years from a number of display acts cancelling last minute due to not being [...]

Australian International Air Show 2017

By | April 17th, 2017|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

Air Power in Action was the theme of the 13th biennial Australian International Air Show and Aerospace & Defence Exposition held at Avalon Airport, Geelong, Victoria. Held as two concurrent events comprising an airshow and exposition, the air show is quite rightly marketed as the premier event of such ‘South [...]

Aviation Nation 2016 – Nellis AFB Open House

By | December 13th, 2016|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

The Nellis Air Force Base open house or to give it the official title, Aviation Nation, is a renowned event that is often considered a bucket list show.  The many attractions of Aviation Nation are easy to see with Nellis being one of the most famous fighter bases in the world, [...]

Ostrava NATO Days 2016

By | November 4th, 2016|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

Found in the north-eastern corner of the Czech Republic near the border with Poland, the small city of Ostrava is the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region and, since its inception in 2001, been the setting for the annual NATO days show. Duncan Monk reports from Ostrava NATO days 2016. This [...]

Bucharest International Air Show 2016

By | September 13th, 2016|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

The air arms of Eastern European states have long attracted Western enthusiasts. However, as more and more of these ex-communist nations become integrated with Europe and NATO, their military equipment tends to follow suit leading to interesting, and often colourful, Soviet types being replaced with grey fighters from the USA. Whilst Romania [...]

Royal International Air Tattoo 2016

By | August 21st, 2016|Categories: Airshow Reports, Event Reports|

The Royal International Air Tattoo is often the highlight of the UK’s Aviation calendar and attracts an interesting array of aircraft, new and old, from around the world. Anticipation for the show is even higher in Farnborough years when global aircraft manufacturers descend on the UK to try and secure [...]