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x-ray
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I don't know if you'd call this vintage but it was from another annual report assignment involving the Air Force about 25 years ago. We did a had day of air to air shooting between F16's and F15's off the coast of Georgia. Hard to beat a day like this.
I need to look for some of my images of formation flight. The unfortunate thing about film is most of the images especially the best go to the client and you never get your hands on them again.
I need to look for some of my images of formation flight. The unfortunate thing about film is most of the images especially the best go to the client and you never get your hands on them again.
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biomed
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x-ray,
A pair of beauties!
Mike
A pair of beauties!
Mike
Dektol Dan
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Still More Color
Still More Color
M6, Zeiss 35mm 2.8, Porta
Still More Color
M6, Zeiss 35mm 2.8, Porta
Moto-Uno
Moto-Uno
Could I suggest that some of these pics tell us what it is we are viewing .
Dektol Dan
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What you see is...
What you see is...
From me anyway, is an Me 262, world's first operational jet fighter from Germany, WWII.
What you see is...
From me anyway, is an Me 262, world's first operational jet fighter from Germany, WWII.
mooge
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Looks like one of the reproductions, this one in particular:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262program.htm
And this one has GE J-85 engines instead of the original's Jumo 004s. random fact! actually, a lot of German or Soviet WW2 fighters that are flying today are re-engined due to lack of parts... but the Jumo 004 had a bunch of issues so you wouldn't want to fly with that engine anyways.
Looks like one of the reproductions, this one in particular:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262program.htm
And this one has GE J-85 engines instead of the original's Jumo 004s. random fact! actually, a lot of German or Soviet WW2 fighters that are flying today are re-engined due to lack of parts... but the Jumo 004 had a bunch of issues so you wouldn't want to fly with that engine anyways.
Moto-Uno
Moto-Uno
Thanks for the update gentlemen. Peter
ktmrider
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Great Thread
Great Thread
This is a great thread. I retired a few years ago after flying 33 years for the US government. In the Marines it was a CH46 and in Customs a Citation and Blackhawk (as well as a variety of smaller planes and helos).
I just wanted to mention two flying museums which are not too well known. The first is in Santa Theresa, NM, about 15 miles west of El Paso-warbirds and vintage cars. Also, I just returned from the Oregon coast and there is a good(not great) museum in Tillanook, Oregon. It is housed in one of the last remaining wooden blimp hangars from WW2 and the hangar is as interesting as the plane collection. It would hold 9 blimps, is 1100 feet long and 200 feet high and wide. The blimp hangars were the largest wooden structures ever built.
Both locations are worth a visit.
Great Thread
This is a great thread. I retired a few years ago after flying 33 years for the US government. In the Marines it was a CH46 and in Customs a Citation and Blackhawk (as well as a variety of smaller planes and helos).
I just wanted to mention two flying museums which are not too well known. The first is in Santa Theresa, NM, about 15 miles west of El Paso-warbirds and vintage cars. Also, I just returned from the Oregon coast and there is a good(not great) museum in Tillanook, Oregon. It is housed in one of the last remaining wooden blimp hangars from WW2 and the hangar is as interesting as the plane collection. It would hold 9 blimps, is 1100 feet long and 200 feet high and wide. The blimp hangars were the largest wooden structures ever built.
Both locations are worth a visit.
Dektol Dan
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Groovy
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It has the #1 on it as per your link. As an aside, when it turned from the crowd to take off, the engines baked us all, peppered us with small rocks like buckshot inhaled by the engines, and set the crowd scattering in a panic.
Groovy
It has the #1 on it as per your link. As an aside, when it turned from the crowd to take off, the engines baked us all, peppered us with small rocks like buckshot inhaled by the engines, and set the crowd scattering in a panic.
x-ray
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Nice planes. I've logged several hours flying one. I spent many happy hours flying a 1946 Champion and later a Citabria.
I love flying these old machines.
x-ray
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The aircraft wasn't particularly vintage, 150 Cessna, but the pilot was. The lady is "Mama Bird" Evelyn Johnson. Evelyn had just lost her medical a couple of weeks earlier due to eyesight. She was 96 and the second highest time pilot in history. She was a fixed wing instructor, helicopter instructor and FAA flight examiner. Evelyn flew till she was 96, lost a leg in a car accident and still managed an airport and FBO till she was 101. She passed away last year at 102 years old. I checked the record and Evelyn had 57,635.4 hours logged.
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biomed
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I was able to see this aircraft as it was being completed at Paine Field in Everett, WA. Check out their website.
Mike
pakeha
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One of a very few still flying.This one was rebuilt here in NZ for an American client
Mosquito 2013 by pakeha01, on Flickr
Mosquito 2013 by pakeha01, on Flickr
biomed
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One of a very few still flying.This one was rebuilt here in NZ for an American client
Mosquito 2013 by pakeha01, on Flickr
This must be the rumored Mossie for Paul Allen.
pakeha
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yes, i believe so.This was taken in April and was to be shipped to States immediately after the show.
Tom A
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Catalina PBY. Tillamook Air Museum, Oregon
Horizon 202, Arista Premium 400, Td 201 developer 1/4s exposure
Moto-Uno
Moto-Uno
"DoxLeica", that's one eerie shot you've taken there. Like it lots, Peter
KoNickon
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That guy has some nice toys, for sure. I would love to see one of the Mosquitos -- one of the very greatest planes of WWII. (By the way, the photo shows how too high a shutter speed can make the props look like they aren't turning at all!)
biomed
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Boeing WB-47E Stratojet - 60+ year old vintage aircraft.
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