Anyone have any experience with Nellis just before Aviation Nation? Photography from outside any different than usual, like more/less hassle with security?
AFAIK no extra security issues or blocked roads. On the showdays itself however the road to the speedway is heavily secured due to the fact the areas around the speedway are used as parking for the airshow visitors.
Why this question, AFAIK no Aviation Nation is planned for the comming years, or did I miss something?
Edit: just noticed this event returned in this year schedule; to be held at 10 and 11 november. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]
Whoa, that is arguably at least as good as Aviation Nation.
To confirm the anwer to my own question above: on the Friday before the show, all was relaxed. No objections at all to parking at the usual spots, despite markers already present to close the verges of N Las Vegas Blvd.
Only flying I saw was the show rehearsel and a few static arrivals. Most aircraft used 21L.
11/29/2012 - Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. -- Southern Nevada residents may notice increased military aircraft activity as the Air Force conducts Red Flag 13-2 from 21 Jan. - 1 Feb.
Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range--the U.S. Air Force's premier military training area with more than 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land. With 1,900 possible targets, realistic threat systems and an opposing enemy force that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world, Nellis and the NTTR are the home of a "peacetime battlefield," providing combat air forces with the ability to train to fight together, survive together and win together.
The 414th Combat Training Squadron is responsible for executing Red Flag and the exercise is just one of a series of advanced training programs administered at Nellis AFB and on the NTTR by organizations assigned to the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center.
More than 90 aircraft are scheduled to depart Nellis twice a day, around noon and again around 6 p.m. Aircraft may remain in the air for up to eight hours. The flying times are scheduled to accommodate the other flying missions at Nellis and provide Red Flag participants with valuable training in planning and executing a wide-variety of combat missions.
The exercise will include U.S. forces and aircraft from:
