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About Jonathan Derden

Jonathan Derden is an Airline Transport Rated-pilot with a regional airline in the mid-Atlantic region. Chair flying since being spoon fed as a child, Jonathan is a graduate of the aviation program at Jacksonville University and has been an airline pilot since 2007. When he's not flying for work, he's traversing the planet in search of the next opportunity as an aviation photojournalist. Jonathan began his photographic pursuits as a teenager while learning how to use his father's camera at a local general aviation airport, and has since broadened his horizons to include and now focuses on military aviation.

Burner Friday: Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet

On behalf of all of us here at FighterSweep, we welcome you back to Burner Friday! This week’s edition of fire and noise is brought to you by Boeing’s F/A-18F View More ›

An EA-6B Prowler’s Final Flight

In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, we’re going to revisit one of the Navy’s recent retirees, the Grumman Iron Works EA-6B Prowler. Not long ago, we posted a photo gallery View More ›

Germanwings: First Officer Andreas Lubitz Destroyed Aircraft

French authorities, after initially reviewing the cockpit voice recorder of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the Alps, have determined that the captain was outside the cockpit for the entire View More ›

Germanwings Airbus Crashes in Alps

At 0940Z this morning, contact was lost with a Germanwings Airbus A320 enroute from Barcelona to Düsseldorf in the Alps in southern France.

Milestone Monday: Eurofighter Typhoon First Flight

Welcome back, FighterSweep fans! For this week’s edition of Milestone Monday, we’re going to take a look at yet another controversial aircraft – imagine that! – but this time one operated View More ›

Milestone Monday: Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey First Flight

This week marks the anniversary of the first flight of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey when, on March 19, 1989, the prototype tiltrotor briefly bested gravity for the first time at Bell’s facility in Arlington, Texas.

F-35s To Alaska?

It looks like we’ll be seeing some AK-coded F-35As flying around the Last Frontier in the near future, as Eielson AFB is likely to become home to two squadrons comprising View More ›

South Carolina Guard F-16s Help Rescue Boaters

This month, members of the South Carolina National Guard are involved in a massive, state-wide disaster response exercise. Dubbed Vigilant Guard, the exercise involves both National Guard as well as View More ›

Royal Australian Air Force learning to GROWL

Five Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aviators recently completed training for the Boeing EA-18G Growler at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. Although the RAAF currently operates the two-seat Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet View More ›

Burner Friday: JASDF F-15J Eagle

I’m not sure about you, but it’s been a long and arduous week. Plenty of bitter and blizzard-like winter conditions still abound despite all hopes to the contrary, and I View More ›