The City of Great Bend, Kansas hosted their bi-annual fly-in on September 22, 2012. This year the fly-in turned into a weekend long celebration and remembrance of World War II. The Army Air Force built Great Bend’s Municipal Airport as a training base for B-29 crews getting ready to fly mission in the Pacific Theater….
A flight of four A-10 Thunderbolt II’s (or better known as Warthogs) took part in the 2011 Smoky Hill ANG Range Open House. The four Warthogs showed how they drop bombs while working with ground based JTAC controllers and then showed off some of their skills in firing the 30mm canon in the nose of…
A four plane flight from the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Squadron kicked off the 2011 Smoky Hills Air National Guard Range activities properly. These four Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcons dropped small practice bombs at targets on the range. The practice bombs carry a small smoke charge to mark the position of where…
One of the interesting displays at the 2011 Smoky Hills Air National Guard Range Open House was a group of JTACs showing how they work. A JTAC team will go into an area and coordinate with friendly ground forces and support them by directing in bombs or cannon fire from aircraft or artillery. Doing so…
Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range held an open house on August 6, 2011. The range encompasses 51 square miles. That makes it the largest Air National Guard range in the nation. It also is one of the busiest. It offers several areas for aircraft to drop practice bombs and to fire guns. Smoky Hill…
