My first camera was a Kodak pocket 110 that I would take on vacation. I have scrapbooks going back to the mid-70s. Most pages have pictures of airplanes. Or ships. Or airplanes ON ships. Given that the house I grew up in had a view of KSFO from the backyard, my choice of photo subjects shouldn't be surprising.

Chase list

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Boeing LCF**

Rafale

Avro Vulcan

Antonov AN-124**

XB-70 Valkyrie

Martin Mars

PBY Catalina

727 --off the list 26 Jan 2010

787--off the list 21 May 2010

L-1011 off the list 21 May 2010

A380--off the list 12 Sept 2010

Typhoon II--off the list 2 Oct 2010

C-119 Flying Boxcar off the list 17 Jan 2011

Super Guppy-- off the list 19 Feb 2011

MiG-29--off the list 19 Feb 2011

Air Force One--off the list 26 Sept 2011

Boeing 747-8I- off the list July 5 2013

California Condor--in the wild off the list Oct 12 2014

F-21 Kfir off the list Sept 27 2015

F-35C--off the list March 2017

Boeing P-8 Poseidon--off the list Oct 2017

* Saw Atlantis launch in 88 from 20 miles away, all you can see in the photos are contrails

** seen in person, no photos

Flying vehicles that I have taken far less than perfect pictures of using a point and shoot:

SR-71

Space Shuttle Atlantis-- see above

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