美国北达科他州迈诺特空军基地，一架参加最小间隔起飞（Minimum Interval Takeoff）战备训练的 B-52H 战略轰炸机紧急升空。最小间隔起飞训练的目的是在基地面临核打击的情况下尽可能让更多轰炸机和空中加油机升空，以免遭受毁灭性后果丧失反击能力。（A B-52H Stratofortess flies off during a minimum-interval takeoff at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Aug. 15, 2013. In a conventional conflict, the B-52 can perform strategic attack, close-air support, air interdiction, offensive counter-air and maritime operations.）

美国北达科他州迈诺特空军基地，一架参加最小间隔起飞（Minimum Interval Takeoff）战备训练的 B-52H 战略轰炸机紧急升空。最小间隔起飞训练的目的是在基地面临核打击的情况下尽可能让更多轰炸机和空中加油机升空，以免遭受毁灭性后果丧失反击能力。（A B-52H Stratofortess flies off during a minimum-interval takeoff at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Aug. 15, 2013. In a conventional conflict, the B-52 can perform strategic attack, close-air support, air interdiction, offensive counter-air and maritime operations.）

美国威斯康星州奥什科什，美国空军雷鸟飞行表演队在实验飞机协会（EAA）举办的“飞来者大会-2014”(AirVenture Oshkosh 2014) 航展上进行飞行表演，这是雷鸟首次亮相奥什科什。（F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds with the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron perform aerial maneuvers Aug. 3, 2014, during the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture event in Oshkosh, Wis.）

1954年8月23日，美国空军一架 YC-130“大力神”运输机原型机从加利福尼亚州伯班克飞往爱德华兹空军基地进行测试。（Archived photo of the YC-130 Hercules during its ferry flight from Burbank, Calif. to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. August 23, 1954. The C-130 is still in production today, making it the longest running military aircraft production line in history.）

1954年8月23日，美国空军一架 YC-130“大力神”运输机原型机准备从加利福尼亚州伯班克飞往爱德华兹空军基地进行测试，此照片上有AH6807的编号。（Archived photo of the YC-130 Hercules during its ferry flight from Burbank, Calif. to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. August 23, 1954. The C-130 is still in production today, making it the longest running military aircraft production line in history.）

1954年8月23日，美国空军一架 YC-130“大力神”运输机原型机准备从加利福尼亚州伯班克飞往爱德华兹空军基地进行测试，此照片上有AH7614的编号。（Archived photo of the YC-130 Hercules during its ferry flight from Burbank, Calif. to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. August 23, 1954. The C-130 is still in production today, making it the longest running military aircraft production line in history.）

美国阿拉斯加州埃尔门多夫-理查森联合基地，美国空军第36空运中队一架 C-130H“大力神”运输机准备起飞进行训练，为即将到来的红旗-阿拉斯加演习做准备。（A C-130 Hercules waits for approval from the air traffic control tower prior to takeoff Aug. 5, 2014, during an off-site training sortie at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The training prepared aircrew personnel for the upcoming Red Flag-Alaska exercise. The C-130 is assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron.）

美国空军第86运输机联队一架 C-130J-30“超级大力神”运输机远征轮换训练部署期间在波兰波维兹空军基地一条土质跑道上降落，此次为期两个月的部署亦是“大西洋决心”行动的一部分，旨在强化北约的安全承诺。（A C-130J Super Hercules lands on an unimproved runway Aug. 25, 2014, at Powidz Air Base, Poland. Throughout the deployment to Poland, Airmen were able to work with NATO partners to develop and improve forces capable of maintaining regional security.）

美国明尼苏达州圣保罗，美国空军明尼苏达州空中国民警卫队第133空运联队一架 C-130H 运输机正在起飞进行新一轮部署。（Members of the 133rd Airlift Wing recently say goodbye to family and friends in St. Paul, Minn., prior to departing for a deployment. Three of the Wing's C-130 H3 "Hercules" aircraft and approximately 100 Airmen left for Southwest Asia and they are scheduled to return to Minnesota this fall. The 133rd Airlift Wing's C-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft support many military missions, including airdrop and air land delivery of critical supplies, equipment and personnel to remote airfields and to areas not easily reached by ground travel. C-130s also provide aeromedical evacuation of wounded service members, where trained medical personnel provide timely, life-saving medical care while patients are transported to a medical facility.）

日本嘉手纳空军基地周边海域，美国空军第31救援中队一架 HH-60G"铺路鹰"直升机在模拟救援被击落飞行员。（A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 31st Rescue Squadron participates in a "downed pilot" exercise, Kadena Air Base, Japan, Aug 26, 2014. The 31st RQS uses various fixed- and rotary-wing insertion and extraction assets providing combat and humanitarian search, rescue and medical assistance in all environments.）