Big, BIIIG ol' hangar once used to house dirigibles
Posted on 05/30/2004 7:18:05 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Scene/Seen at yesterday's Moffett Field Air Show, Mountain View, CA:
Big, BIIIG ol' hangar once used to house dirigibles
Coast Guard Lockheed HC-130-H "Hercules"
Up the ramp into the Hercules
Not sure what model jet this is
Some people will do anything for a buzz
Tell it to the Marines...
... or to the USAF
SPAM is EVERYWHERE
The Swedish Air Force arrives
Purty WWII Mustang
"EMU" stands for "Experimental Military Unit" comprised of both U.S. & Australian troops
NASA jets
NASA 747 used to transport the Space Shuttle on its back (note the mounting hardware)
Split-S manuever
Military patch sales were doing a brisk business -- except for the UN patch tucked way, waaaay down in the bottom display corner
The Air Force Thunderbirds were there, too, although one of them had to bow out of the show early due to mechanical trouble
Lining up to see the inside of a FedEx plane (Why?)
Poing.
What a great bunch of pics.I'm sorry I missed the free samples (Spam). :^D
Ah, thanks. I might've known.
Neato stuff! Thanks for posting. Now I wish I had gone too.
Thanks. Beautifully kept airplanes.
The SAAB J-35 Draken in the photo is used by the National Test Pilot School (a private org) in Mojave, CA, and makes the show rounds.
I don't usually see the view going up a C-130 tailgate a lot -- seems like more than half the time I'm going the other way on it.
The F-16 is an Arizona ANG plane. I thought the state-flag intake cover in the style of the state flag was cool. The Air National Guard puts the state abbreviation on the tail of their planes. Active airforce bases have a code for machines based there.
The green and tan camouflaged plane is an F-100, the plane in which John Boyd revolutionized air tactics, and the unsung workhorse of Vietnam close air support. I think it's a D or E model. It's privately owned, one of about four or five on the private register. Fast, hard to fly, and like all the century series fighters, dangerous.
The small silver jet with the tip tanks is the Temco TT-1 Pinto trainer that was tested extensively by the Navy but not bought in quantity. It was always a rare airplane, and the survivors are extremely so.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
(they actually weren't bad) <|:)~
CG asked that I tell you the one you couldn't identify is a US Northrop F5 Tiger now used at Top Gun for Russian Aggressor.
Cj likes airplanes too, former USAF that he is. Happy Memorial Day to yunz both.
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