Post aircraft pictures you took

Been thinking about posting these for ages. I just happen to be on the desktop today. I am old, these are old photos. I took them when I worked as an Instrumentation Engineer for Department of Navy Flight Test out of Pax River maybe around 1998. This was from the aircraft carrier Eisenhower during a post dry dock shake down cruise off shore Virginia. I had an old Minolta with a long lens, I took them from Deck 8 or 9. The A6 aircraft was probably not in service long after this cruise. It was treat for me because the A6 was the first aircraft I ever worked on as a USMC ejection seat parachute rigger in 1974.

There are probably other threads that I've started that I need to see what folks said too! I'm still involved full time and always seem to be busier than a one armed paper hanger.

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Sometime around 1992 I was working at a part 145 Repair Station in Miami's corrosion corner. PanAm Express bought 10 brand new Jetstream 32s and had us maintain them to compete with Eagle. I wound up being the overnight maintenance crew lead for 10 of these airplanes, nobody else thought it was worth the extra $2. an hour. Flights operated out of what was then the Echo Remote, a stand alone building on the ramp that passengers had to take a bus to get to. The SST was right behind us a couple times a week. Jetstream1.jpgJetstream2.jpgSST.jpgSST2.jpgSST3.jpgSST4.jpgSST5.jpgSST6.jpg
 
I took this first one at a Heritage Flight Museum "fly day" last spring. The last 2 are of a derelict C-47 at Arlington airport from a couple of years ago. The plane is still there.

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Took a trip to WWD to meet a couple friends.

Stopped by the museum (a must if you're in the area), it had been a while since my last visit.

Besides the F-14 (moved inside now, last time they had it outside), they've added another nice centerpiece to their collection: a Harrier.

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She’s the only girl in my life that I think looks better with her wheel pants on, but she does like to get dirty when they are off…
 

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Half Fast said:
BEAUTIFUL!

(But I'd love it even more if you photo-shopped a kid holding a control line running to it, like the Cox models we all had. :biggrin:)
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Someone used to make a UFO with a motor in the center---it was nothing you could control---it just took off and went wherever it wanted to go. What I remember is thinking it was crazy cool until it whacked my fingers multiple times and then at some point became impossible to start.
 
WJG-GMT-RootBeer said:
Nice looking paint--I am jealous.
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Thank you. Took a while for me to pull the trigger. The original paint was in good shape except for some chips on t(e leading edge. Plane has been hangared its entire life. Was debating for a long time about selling and moving to a Bonanza, but at 68 the insurance and annual costs for in retract/complex was more than I wanted given the flying I do now as a retired guy.
 
Velocity173 said:
Some old legacy Hornet pics @35 AoA.

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Lord's chariot right there. I still miss her.

To your previous post, I was around for the T-2C (at the time only for NFO training), but well after the TA-4J. When I was a stashed ENS in pensacola I always dreamed of trunking a T-2 flight, but the opportunity never presented itself since I was at schools command and nowhere close to the flight line. Oh well. Kinda like my F-4 backseat at Tyndall that got wx cancelled.
 
35 AoA said:
...I was around for the T-2C (at the time only for NFO training), but well after the TA-4J. When I was a stashed ENS in pensacola I always dreamed of trunking a T-2 flight, but the opportunity never presented...
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I have benefited greatly by being in the right place at the right time. :cool:

T-2C:
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OOCF in the Buckeye was a blast.

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Oh well. Kinda like my F-4 backseat at Tyndall that got wx cancelled.
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I only got one F-4 hop as a FAM/QUALEVAL and was cameraless because reasons.

If you want to be 'impressed' by my age but not my luck I've also got some pics from within the belly of the whale (A-3).

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nauga said:
I have benefited greatly by being in the right place at the right time. :cool:

T-2C:
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OOCF in the Buckeye was a blast.

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I only got one F-4 hop as a FAM/QUALEVAL and was cameraless because reasons.

If you want to be 'impressed' by my age but not my luck I've also got some pics from within the belly of the whale (A-3).

Nauga,
who has been lucky
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All very cool. Was the Whale a navy buno at the time, or one of the N registered industry test birds? Every time I drive by our gate guardian A-3, I always wonder if they had a plan for an engine failure on takeoff, or if they just shot from the hip. Historical record seems to point to the latter.
 
35 AoA said:
To your previous post, I was around for the T-2C (at the time only for NFO training), but well after the TA-4J. When I was a stashed ENS in pensacola I always dreamed of trunking a T-2 flight, but the opportunity never presented itself since I was at schools command and nowhere close to the flight line. Oh well. Kinda like my F-4 backseat at Tyndall that got wx cancelled.
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There was a shortage of T-2C's when I was going through so we flew T-2Bs in VT-10. The TA-4 in VT-86 was the reward for making to the end for us NFO's. 4 X/C events (I did mine as a hurrivac) and then BFM for 10 or so events to winging. Those events were where we started to learn how to work as a crew instead of just being graded doing everything.

My last flight was with a USNR Captain who was an AA pilot and had been a Marine flying A-4's in SEA. He had over 4000 hours in the scooter so there was little he didn't know about it. I gave my little Olympus XA-2 camera to my buddy and he snapped this pic of me signaling him to cross-under on the way back home. to NPA.

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