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Aviation Nation, sometimes referred to as America's Air Show, is the annual award-winning [1] air show of the United States Air Force (USAF). The show is hosted at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas , Nevada in November of each year.
Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in " Military Operations Area (MOA) airspace ", [ 3 ] associated with the nearby Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR).
Currently, Air Show Buzz retains one of the largest aviation repositories of consumer-generated images and videos online. As of July 22, 2009 there were a total of 18,400 aviation photos and 3,600 aviation videos. With an active user base of more than 17,000 contributing members, the user base is among the largest in the industry.
With the stand-up of Air Combat Command in 1992, the school embarked on a dramatic shift from its 43-year focus exclusively on fighter aviation, dropping the "fighter" from its title and becoming the "Air Force Weapons School." The change was much more than symbolic with the activation of the B-52 and B-1 Divisions that year.
Exercise Red Flag (also Red Flag – Nellis) [1] is a two-week advanced aerial combat training exercise held several times a year by the United States Air Force (USAF). It aims to offer realistic air-combat training for military pilots and other flight crew members from the United States and allied countries.
The Nellis Air Force Base Complex [1] (Nellis AFB complex, [2] [3] NAFB Complex [1]) is the southern Nevada military region of federal facilities and lands, e.g., currently and formerly used for military and associated testing and training such as Atomic Energy Commission atmospheric nuclear detonations of the Cold War.
Rainbow Boulevard is north–south highway running the length of the Las Vegas Valley part of SR 595. Nevada State Route 146 called St. Rose Parkway, is highway south of Las Vegas from I-15 to Henderson. Tropicana Avenue is an east–west main road through Las Vegas, also part of SR 593.
The 6th Weapons Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the USAF Weapons School, based at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.It was previously assigned to the Seventh Air Force, being inactivated at Yokota Airfield, Japan on 20 February 1947.