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My wife and I visited Las Vegas to check out Red Flag 21-3, a big exercise for the USAF, Navy, and some foreign countries. It's a great experience watching so many warplanes coming and going. Las Vegas in August is HOT - as in over 100 degrees so we were sweltering. I still can't seem to get consistent tack sharp photos of the high speed takeoffs so I will keep practicing. Any advice is welcome.
I took these photos outside of Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, in early August 2021.
An amazing sight of Fistral Beach which I have never been to before. The waves were pretty large on the Wednesday 18th April 2018 according to locals chatting to at The Shack on Fistral Beach. To be treated with respect as I had an incident with a sneaker wave that flooded my wellingtons.....
Note the red flag on the beach due to the conditions.
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Senior Airman John Myer pushes a tow bar under the tire a B-52H Stratofortress during a Red Flag exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The B-52 shredded a tire upon landing after a four-hour mission. Myer is a B-52 aircraft maintainer assigned to the 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Barksdale AFB, La. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)
Two different eras of Boeing in the skies over Las Vegas - that's a Southwest 737-8 Max climbing out of LAS in the distance.
An F-16 Fighting Falcon from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker July 18, 2016, while taking part in exercise Red Flag 16-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Red Flag 16-3 is one of four Red Flag exercises at Nellis AFB, with this iteration focusing on multi-domain operations in air, space and cyberspace. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri)
Fabulous United States Navy Grumman EA-6B Prowler BuAerNo. 163887/NG621 from VAQ-138 'Yellow Jackets' departs Nellis AFB, Nevada during the 1996 'Red Flag' exercise
Looking at other shots of her I took that day this may have been an Air Test or a Range familiarisation ride as only two of the four crew were aboard
Neither is she carrying any AN/ALQ-99 ECM pods - just a pair of wing tanks plus that range telemetry store on the outer pylon
She landed back later
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
Yesterday at Pensacola Beach, Florida was a stormy day with rough surf as storms rolled through the area. . With this shot I was using the Sony A7RII (1/2000 sec at f/4.0, ISO 250) with the Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS lens handheld.
Callsign "Flanker" recovering to runway 03R during Red Flag 15-2.
83-0040 from the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nevada.
A B-1B Lancer lifts off the runway at Nellis AFB, Nevada, enroute to its target waiting in the vast bombing ranges in the desert.
Boeing serial number 19382 has had quite a varied career. It was first delivered to American Airlines as a 707-323C in October 1967, registered N7567A. Upon retirement, it was acquired by the U.S. Air Force as part of a batch of former American 707s to be used as crew trainers, and became Air Force serial 81-0892. It was converted to an EC-18B range monitoring aircraft using that serial, and flew as such out of Edwards Air Force Base until 1999. After that it was converted to an E-8C, and gained the new serial 01-2005.
Turning finals for Nellis AFB during Red Flag. The Vikings have now transitioned to the Lockheed F-35B Lighting II.