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Photography.75
Air to ground, ground to air

{Photography.75.272}: Coyote {coyote} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:27:44 EST (6 lines)

Wow! What an amazing facility. My dad, rest his soul, would have lit
up like a light bulb in a place like that. He was an advanced design
aeronautical engineer his entire working career, beginning in the late
1930s. He used to say, "When the war started, the government wouldn't
let me enlist, because they needed me to stay home and design the war
planes."

{Photography.75.273}: TJ {tj2} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:02 EST (HTML)

Maybe your dad would have liked these. I didn't take time to read the signs and get info on all the planes, but I know that some are mock-ups, some are experimental, at least one is just a toy that kids can play on. So, I don't know whether these ever flew or not, but if they did, it must have taken a lot of courage...

Microjet

{Photography.75.274}: TJ {tj2} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:01:33 EST (HTML)

Bumble Bee

{Photography.75.275}: TJ {tj2} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:02:04 EST (HTML)

Some are bigger than others...

{Photography.75.276}: Steve Lacey {masked} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:17:42 EST (11 lines)

Love airplane pix. Thanks, TJ. Got some of my own from flight museums
at Ottawa, Inverness, and Edinburgh, as well as lots of shots of
aircraft in flight; but mine are not as impressive as yours.

My biggest regret in this respect is the loss of several shots of the
Concorde when it visited Regina, Saskatchewan, in about 1987. I had a
great shot that had the beautiful bird appearing to perch on the
airport perimeter fence--a serendipitous accident of perspective. But
this was, of course, before digital imaging; the picture, its fellows,
and the negatives were destroyed in a fire that consumed the school I
was then teaching at.

{Photography.75.277}: TJ {tj2} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:13:44 EST (HTML)

I was more into planes when I was a kid, had models and all that, but never flew except in commercial airliners. I joined the Air Force at 21 and spent all four years in ICBMs. The only time I ever flew as part of my Air Force duty was as a passenger in a U-6A. "http://www.aero-web.org/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=1953" I was going to the missile site I was assigned to, and we had barely gotten off the ground when the pilot saw a storm coming in and turned around. I got a truck and drove to the site.

{Photography.75.278}: TJ {tj2} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:26:51 EST (HTML)

The other transport vehicle we had was the Bell UH-1F "Baby Huey." http://www.marchfield.org/uh1f.htm I never got up in one of them.

{Photography.75.279}: TJ {tj2} Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:50:41 EST (HTML)

Army version of the Huey at the museum:

{Photography.75.280}: Steve Lacey {masked} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:30:06 EST (3 lines)

You were in ICBMs? What, as the guidance system? (jest kiddin ya)

That Huey looks hungry!

{Photography.75.281}: Frank Vehafric {fvehafric} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:35:10 EST (3 lines)

We went to the evergreen air museum in McMinneville Oregon last
weekend. This is Emily and I standing in front of the tail of the
spruce goose

{Photography.75.282}: Martin Booda {booda} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:12:12 EST (3 lines)

mmm

{273} Hey!  That's James Bond's!

{Photography.75.283}: Steve Lacey {masked} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:48:50 EST (5 lines)

The real Spruce Goose? You mean Howard Hughes' master folly? It still
exists? Leapin' lizards! I never knew! Cool!

What're you and those other folks lookin' at when that unique piece
of aviation history is right there?

{Photography.75.284}: Frank Vehafric {fvehafric} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:09:12 EST (6 lines)

There is a lot of really cool stuff including perhaps the coolest
aircraft ever, the SR71 Blackbird.

We did spend the twenty five extra bucks for the family portrait in
the cockpit of the Goose. So i got to sit behind the controls. Petty
cool.

{Photography.75.285}: TJ {tj2} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:02:07 EST (HTML)

SR-71 Blackbird

This is one I hope to get a better picture of when go back this winter.

{Photography.75.286}: TJ {tj2} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:15:47 EST (HTML)

{Photography.75.287}: TJ {tj2} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:16:00 EST (HTML)

{Photography.75.288}: TJ {tj2} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:39:02 EST (HTML)

Another of the Blackbird

{Photography.75.289}: Frank Vehafric {fvehafric} Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:49:30 EST (1 line)

Nice. I took lots of photos but only downloaded a few so far.

{Photography.75.290}: Donald Dozier {donaldpd} Mon, 14 May 2012 10:58:06 EDT (4 lines)

"http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/05/14/amazing-121-megapixel-
shot-of-earth-courtesy-of-the-russians/"

Interesting

{Photography.75.291}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Fri, 18 May 2012 10:44:43 EDT (HTML)

I remember having some editing fun with this plane:

Paddy

{Photography.75.292}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Fri, 18 May 2012 10:48:11 EDT (HTML)

Here is another.

From the above to this below:

Ride ‘em cowboy!

Paddy

{Photography.75.293}: Martin Booda {booda} Sat, 19 May 2012 08:24:59 EDT (HTML)

{291}

Certainly not as much fun as Roger Dean had:

{Photography.75.294}: Paddrick Mackin {paddrick} Sat, 19 May 2012 09:17:41 EDT (1 line)

Oooooh; a raptor!

{Photography.75.295}: Steve Lacey {masked} Fri, 25 May 2012 17:30:00 EDT (2 lines)

Here's a very digestive view of a Northern lake. At least, I for one
think it looks like a stomach . . .

{Photography.75.296}: annie {oceanannie} Fri, 25 May 2012 18:12:05 EDT (HTML)

ha ha, or one of those flasks so often seen in mad scientist movies

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