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U.S. Navy’s Last Active Duty P-3C Squadron Returns Home After Completing The Type’s Final Deployment To Bahrain

October 7, 2019 David Cenciotti 0

The P-3C Orions belonging to the VP-40 “Fighting Marlins” are returning home after their final deployment to the Middle East. On Oct. 3, 2019, three P-3C Orions belonging to VP-40 (the examples BuNo 162318 flying […]

B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Performs Hot-Pit Refueling At Lajes Field, Azores

September 10, 2019 David Cenciotti 0

The B-2s of the Bomber Task Force deployed to RAF Fairford paid visit to another strategic base in the region. The B-2A “Spirit of Mississippi” (82-1071), one of the three stealth bombers deployed to RAF […]

Take a look at these photographs of the rare NASA DC-8 Airborne Laboratory visiting Lajes during global-scale sampling mission

September 1, 2016 David Cenciotti 2

A rare beauty flew into Lajes airfield, Azores. Taking part in the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom-1) to study the impact of human-produced air pollution on greenhouse gases and on chemically reactive gases in the atmosphere, […]

Pakistani F-16C/D Block 52+ jets enroute to Green and Red Flag in the U.S. perform stopover at Lajes Field

July 22, 2016 David Cenciotti 17

Pakistani Air Force F-16s are in bound Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. On Jul. 19, six Pakistani AF F16C/D Block 52+ combat jets landed at Lajes Field, Azores, along with two USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aerial […]

Take a look at these fantastic air-to-air photographs of the F-35 during its first transatlantic crossing

February 8, 2016 David Cenciotti 27

Cool photographs of a historic achievement. On Feb. 5, the an F-35A landed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, marking the successful ending of JSF’s first ever transatlantic flight. It was pretty much an […]