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Wright Patterson C-17 Visiting Texas
I headed to Alliance during my time in the Dallas area. There was a C-17 parked on the ramp a bit away from where I was. However, it was in nice light at the beginning of the day. Things improved … Continue reading
A Pair of Beale’s Jets Show Up at BFI
Boeing Field gets the occasional military visitors and you never know what might show up. I glanced up and saw a pair of T-38s downwind for arrival. They came in with about a minute of spacing between them. The tail … Continue reading
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Nice T-38 Surprise
A Beale AFB T-38 was parked over at the FBO when I was at Boeing Field. The canopies were up which gave me optimism but you never know whether they are just doing something to the jet or maybe haven’t … Continue reading
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Tankers at Sunrise
Boeing started delivering KC-46s to the USAF as I covered in this post. However, it didn’t take too long before the Air Force found various items of tooling in the aircraft that shouldn’t have been there and stopped taking delivery. … Continue reading
Low and Sporty Lightning II Departure
Speedway departures can be a mixed bag at Nellis. Flex departures with a pull over the Speedway are the best but it does depend on how high planes have got. Some climb out quite steeply and are way too high … Continue reading
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E-8C JSTARS
E-8 JSTARS are not a rare thing at Red Flag but they do often get involved in the night sorties. Seeing one heading out to play for the daytime activities was a pleasant surprise. On their return on the first … Continue reading
Please Come Back Before Sunset
Some late day departures after the Flag returns included F-15Es, F-35As, L159s and A-4s. You don’t know how long anyone is scheduled to be out but you find yourself hoping that they will all make it back before the sun … Continue reading
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Tagged A-4, Aero Vodochody, aircraft, airplane, arrivals, Boeing, Douglas, draken international, f-15e, f-35a, fighter, honey badger, jet, L159, las vegas, Lightning II, Lockheed Martin, military, nellis afb, nevada, photo, Skyhawks, strike eagle, sunset, USAF
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Medusa Flight for the First Delivery
Finally, the first Boeing KC-46 Pegasus tankers were delivered to the USAF. Not one but two tankers were delivered in the ceremony, a nice effort at a joke by Boeing having left everyone thinking it would only be one. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged aircraft, airplane, Boeing, Everett, first delivery, jet, kc-46, kpae, military, Paine Field, Pegasus, photo, sunrise, tanker, USAF, washington
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Details of a Pegasus
The KC-46 Pegasus test program drags on. The delivery of jets to the USAF is still not happening and the number of jets built increases but they are stacking up at Paine Field and Boeing Field. Meanwhile the test jets … Continue reading
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Forgotten F-22 Pass
There are a lot of air shows that I have been to over the years. You think you remember them well and then something shows up in your archive of images that you have completely forgotten about. I am a … Continue reading