Thunderbird 6, one of the two solo F-16s in the United States Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, being flown by Maj. Jeff Downie at JBSA Randolph...
We cruised past the world’s largest iceberg, A-23a, this morning and picked up a significant following of local seabirds including this Antarctic...
I’ll end this short Black Skimmer series with a shot of a flock of the birds flying along the shoreline of Cocoa Beach, Florida shortly after sunrise...
Four F-16 Fighting Falcons of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds display team seen at Joint Base San Antonio Randolph during the Great Texas Air Show...
An F-35 Lightning II seen at Joint Base San Antonio Randolph during the Great Texas Air Show on Saturday, April 6th, 2024.
Corpus Christi native, and two time winner of the Red Bull Air Race World Championships, Kirby Chambliss performing in his Zivko Edge 540 at JBSA Randolph,...
USAF Thunderbird number 6, the opposing solo aircraft in the display team, piloted by Maj. Jeffrey Downie, seen at JBSA Randolph in San Antonio during...
I have many more images from the Great Texas Airshow but I’ll save them for later. For now, here’s a goodbye wave from Maj. Jeffrey “Simmer”...
An F-16 Fighting Falcon of the USAF Thunderbirds display team seen at JBSA Randolph during the Great Texas Air Show on Saturday, April 6th, 2024.
A highlight of the Great Texas Airshow was seeing these two aircraft flying in formation. The Lockheed F-35 Lightning II represents the pinnacle of modern...
Vapour trails from the wingtips of an F-35 Lightning II during its display at JBSA Randolph for the Great Texas Air Show on Saturday, April 6th, 2024....
Vapour forms on the wings of an F-35 Lightning II as it performs a tight turn during its display at the Great Texas Air Show in San Antonio on Saturday,...
Bill Stein, aerobatics instructor and display pilot, throws his Zivko Edge 540 around the sky during the Great Texas Airshow at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph...
The MiG-17 was a 1950s era, Russian jet fighter with a top speed of 711mph. This aircraft put on a spectacular display during the Great Texas Airshow at Joint...
Yesterday was a lot of fun! I spent the day at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for the annual Great Texas Airshow during which I took somewhere around...
Of the gull-like birds I watched on Cocoa Beach last week, the Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) were probably my favourite. They are so elegant and graceful...
Staying with the theme of birds in flight, here’s another image I took while stalking the Black Skimmers on Cocoa Beach last week. This was taken...
Back to Alaska today with this image of a Glaucous-Winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) seen in Sitka at the start of our September visit to the state. The skies...
Happy Thanksgiving! I don’t have any turkey-related pictures to post today but I’ll finish this short series of bird images with another pelican....
I’m staying with the bird pictures today. Here’s another of the Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) from Fort Morgan beach in Alabama. This...
