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75 Years of Airpower

This past week I had the privilege to attend the Luke Air Show. Luke has been training the worlds finest pilots since 1941. Their mission now is to train our F35 & F16 pilots.

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Nose of F4 Fighter

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Thunderbird F16’s Lined up and ready.

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Maid in the Shade B25

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T33 Ace Maker The Air Forces 1st operational jet.

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B17 Flying Fortress

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Tora Tora Tora Remembering Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

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Heritabe Flight F35 Lightning II flies with P38 Lightning

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The Thunderbirds – USAF’s Finest

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New Air Force Recruits after swearing in ceremony

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Lt. Col Chris Hammond Commander/Leader

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8 Comments

  1. Carolc Carolc

    Great pictures John ! I really enjoyed them ! Thx.

    • jbthomas jbthomas

      I remember the 1st Air Show that I photographed was with you guys in Cleveland back in 2001. That was a fun day.

  2. Doreen Bonner Doreen Bonner

    LOVE every single one of your images John. Next air show I’ll go with you on base. I see you can get better photos by getting closer! Wish we could go there again next week!!!

  3. Rich Baumann Rich Baumann

    Wonderful photos John. As always!

    • jbthomas jbthomas

      Thanks Rich – It was a blast.

  4. Mike Rowell Mike Rowell

    Thanks John!

  5. Carol Carol

    Wow! Just awesome! Your action high speed photos ROCK! Very interesting compositions captured at just the right moment.

    • jbthomas jbthomas

      Carol, it was quite a rush. Thanks for your comments.

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