Puddle Jumper 🦨 @Mach3Plus

Ex: Crew Chief (USAF Test Pilot School), NOYFB, Flight Engineer, (Afghanistan-Gulf War-Panama-Rwanda-Uganda-Kenya-Tanzania) ILC/NASA Space Suit Monkey Beyond the Joshua trees.. Joined October 2010

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Puddle Jumper 🦨 @Mach3Plus

19 hours ago

Reminded me of my favorite pumpkin beers, from Southern Tier and Cigar City before they sold out to a bigger company. Pumking Credit: @beerlabelsinmotion x.com/thehopczar/sta…

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3 days ago

Reminded me of my favorite pumpkin beers, from Southern Tier and Cigar City before they sold out to a bigger company. Pumking Credit: @beerlabelsinmotion x.com/thehopczar/sta… https://t.co/HpSX7E81nT

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Here’s the A-37 Dragonfly, the combat-proven light attack jet derived from the T-37 trainer. Compact, nimble, and heavily armed for its size, the Dragonfly served in Southeast Asia and later with Air National Guard and allied air forces. The A-37 crews at Edwards often did TDY’s…

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2 days ago

A luxury yacht worth 1 million dollars in Zonguldak sank just 15 minutes after being launched. The owner and crew swam to shore. What went wrong? Credit: @decktvcom

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2 days ago

The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s now retired A-4K Skyhawks once pulled off one of the most daring formation aerobatic maneuvers ever seen. In this old video, the Kiwi Red aerobatic team is shown flying a “plugged in” formation barrel roll, where two Skyhawks stayed connected…

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3 days ago

#TankerTuesday from a KC-135 at Edwards, this was the view as we waited on the pad next to the runway with the dry lake bed in the distance. The two F-16s were part of the refueling mission that day, sitting hot while ground crews pulled the safety pins from their weapon systems.…

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5 days ago

NASA AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft At Edwards we used to called this aircraft the "scissor wing" and with good reason. The NASA AD-1 was a unique aircraft. This experimental jet had the ability to pivot the whole wing up to 60 degrees in-flight. The idea was radical; the…

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7 days ago

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7 days ago

#PhantomFriday A pair of F-4 Phantoms at Edwards AFB, caught through my old 35mm lens while I was flying on one of our tankers. A fresh angle and a couple of old favorites brought back for this Friday. Cheers! #EdwardsAFB #USAF #1980s

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4 years ago

Kirtland AFB, NM - Dr. Carl Baum erected a Electro Magnetic Pluse (EMP) simulator between 1972 and 1980 at a cost of $60 million, it was inspired by a railroad bridge. If you wanted to see how a H-bomb’s EMP effected an airplane, you just tow the plane onto the trestle’s deck.

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a week ago

On July 10, 1961, an RAF Avro Vulcan B.2 #XH535, painted in anti-flash white, flew in formation with a USAF Boeing B-52H, #60-0006, near Edwards Air Force Base, California. The anti-flash paint was intended to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear blast as…

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a week ago

At Edwards AFB, you never knew what could arrive on the flight line. Not that I am complaining, but I was surprised to see that a Handley Page Victor had flown across the ocean to a test base in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a rare appearance indeed. During the Cold War to…

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2 weeks ago

In the 80’s I took these photos at Sheppard AFB where several McDonnell F-101B Voodoos were being used as ground trainers. By that time the Voodoo had already been retired from flying service, the last Air National Guard examples left in 1982. Instead of going straight to the…

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2 weeks ago

Project Bee to Lightning Chaser: The B-57s of Edwards You could see two very different Martin Canberras in the 1980s at Edwards AFB. Here in my photo is B-57B 52-1576. A 1950’s bomber turned over to NASA to become a flying laboratory. One of its more famous tasks was Project…

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2 weeks ago

Took these photos at Edwards AFB in the 1980’s In the foreground next to the man in the hat is a North American T-28B Trojan. It has a big radial up front, a three-blade prop, and of course, the normal T-28 profile with tricycle gear. In the middle is a Beechcraft T-34A-BH…

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2 weeks ago

Happy Warthog Wednesday! A-10’s from the 57th Tactical Training Wing sporting the terrestrial paint scheme during JAWS (Joint Attack Weapons System) trails with US Army helicopters. Circa late 1970’s

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3 weeks ago

Erin really pulled herself together after the EWRC or eyewall replacement cycle. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s back to a Cat 5. The IR loop imagery is impressive.