There are a few highlights during each Airshow season, and one of these is the NAS Oceana Airshow. We have attended this event five times previously, and have also reported about on it before. Sometimes we have been asked, “Why do you not report on a different US-American Show?” (We will do – promised!). You will find the answer to this question within this report. This event, which is always held annually during the very best hurricane season on the largest naval airbase of the American east coast, close to the bathing resort Virginia Beach, is probably the best airshow on the entire continent. Thereby this has nothing to do with the fact that we have a foible for the F-14 Tomcat, but is based on the fact that there is simply so much on offer and that there is hardly any match for it. For this reason our editorship has voted for the NAS Oceana Airshow 2004 as the "BEST OVERALL AIRSHOW 2004". Convince yourselves:
Although its days are now numbered, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat is truly one of the most popular fighters of modern times. Made famous in film of the nineteen eighties such as "Top Gun" and "The Final Countdown", the F-Fourteen has been the backbone of U.S. Navy carrier squadrons for more than 30 years and has had a chequered career involving many highs and lows. The fascination, which surrounds the F-Fourteen, be it brute ...... go to the report
NAS Oceana Airshow 2004 - Tomcat versus Hornet
NAS Oceana
Aerobatics
NAS Oceana
It is almost unbelievable how many highlights can be accommodated at a single event as was the case at the NAS Oceana Airshow. Apart from innumerable demonstrations of military ...... go to the report
US Air Force
NAS Oceana
The high profile of airplanes of the U. S. Air Force at this year’s NAS Oceana Airshow was very strong. Apart from the almost mandatory flight presentation of a Boeing F-15C Eagle of the nearby Langley AFB ...... go to the report
US Navy
NAS Oceana
The NAS Oceana Airshow is primarily a competitive exhibition of the U.S.Navy. Nowhere else can one expect such a large accumulation of naval and carrier aircraft of the U.S.Navy. This year the innumerable ...... go to the report
Paras & more
NAS Oceana
They simply belong at an Airshow – and that’s the parachutist display team. At this years NAS Oceana Airshow the Navy SEALs made their impressive debut while Kent and Les Shockley’s famous truck ...... go to the report
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