Tag: Star Wars Canyon
Lt. Charles Walker, 33, died when his F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed about 40 miles north of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif. The U.S. Navy has identified the F/A-18E Super Hornet pilot who was killed on Jul. 31, 2019 a crash in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Lt....
Eye-witness accounts said the F/A-18E had run into the canyon wall at high speed, creating a mushroom cloud that could be seen for miles in the surrounding desert. They did not see the pilot eject. The pilot of the single-seat F/A-18E fighter jet from VFA-151 Vigilantes that crashed on Wednesday has been declared...
A photographer told to Los Angeles Times that he captured this F/A-18E Super Hornet before and after it crashed. The photo in this post shows U.S. Navy F/A-18E BuNo. 168471 (which has been provided by The Aviation Geek Club contributor Ryan W. Gilchrist), NG-400, the CAG bird from VFA-151 Vigilantes that according to Los Angeles...
The F/A-18E crash can result in restricted flights or even a shut down of the whole training area. As we have reported earlier a single-seat F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the ‘Vigilantes’ of Strike Fighter Squadron 151 (VFA-151) based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, Calif., crashed on Jul. 31, 2019 in the morning at approximately...
Here’s something you don’t see every day. Filmed by our friend Dafydd Philips, the cool clip in this post features F/A-18F Super Hornets belonging to VFA-154 ‘Black Knights’ and to VFA-122, ‘Flying Eagles’, both based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore along with EA-18G Growlers from VX-9 ‘The Vampires’ out at Naval...
The RCAF 2018 CF-18 Demonstration Hornet too has taken part in low level training in Mach Loop Here's another cool clip filmed by Dafydd Philips. The video features not only U.S. Navy Boeing F/A-18 Legacy and Super Hornet strike fighters thundering through Star Wars Canyon, California but also for the very first time Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-18s passing...
The spectacular F-35 clip in this post is the full version of a short video already appeared on several websites so it's worth taking a look Taken earlier this month by photographer Dafydd Philips, the following spectacular video features two Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) F-35 Lightning II's thundering through Star Wars Canyon, California. Brought to my attention by Philips himself...
Known as the Jedi Transition to the military, the Star Wars Canyon is located near NAWS China Lake and Edwards AFB Brought to my attention by Christian Nentwig, an aviation enthusiast and a reader of The Aviation Geek Club, the beautiful video in this post (despite several aircraft recognition mistakes) clearly shows why the Rainbow Canyon, which is tucked in the...
