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A head on view of the Breitling Lockheed L-1049F Super Constellation flying during the Farnborough air show, 20 July 2014.
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Air Force, improved versions are still being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta.
The Fighting Falcon has key features including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, a seat reclined 30 degrees to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system which helps to make it a nimble aircraft. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 locations for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", but "Viper" is commonly used by its pilots and crews, due to a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper starfighter.
In addition to active duty U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and Air National Guard units, the aircraft is also used by the USAF aerial demonstration team, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and as an adversary/aggressor aircraft by the United States Navy. The F-16 has also been procured to serve in the air forces of 25 other nations. As of 2015, it is the second most common currently operational military aircraft in the world
Back view. Working air brakes, flaps and ailerons. Also shows the special shape of the exhausts too.
An F-35B test aircraft jettisons an inert AIM-120 missile over the Atlantic Ocean on March 26, 2013.
The Electra was Lockheed's first all-metal and twin-engine design by Lloyd Stearman and Hall Hibbard. e suggested two changes be made to the design: changing the single tail to double tails (later a Lockheed trademark), and deleting oversized wing fillets. The name Electra came from a star in the Pleiades. The prototype made its first flight on February 23, 1934. A total of 149 were built in various types.
The prototype Model 10 had a reverse slope windshield, which was later changed in a slope windshield.
Reg: X233Y cn 1001 later to Northwest Airlines as NC233Y
Skylarkair collection
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The world's only Lockheed P-38L Lighting flies overhead Willow Run Airport in lessening sunlight.
The only L-model Lightning anywhere in the world, this beauty is owned by Fagen Fighters & Warhawks, Inc. in Granite Falls, Minnesota.
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Polaroid SX-70
Impossible Project SX70 Black and White Instant Film
Lockheed S-3B Viking Anti Submarine Aircraft NJ-741 on display on the Aircraft Carrier USS Midway CV-41 Museum in Marina in the City of San Diego in San Diego County California U.S.A.
The Air Force seem to use our house as a way point when they are in pilot training mode and at times they come over every 5 or 10 minutes or so. (The Whenuapai Air Base is only about 10 Km away) . The Hercules Orion C130 regularly come over and are easily recognisable, but I hadn’t seen this one too often. So I took its picture.
An authority on air force planes says, "Its a P3K Orion derived from the Lockheed Electra passenger aircraft for maritime and anti submarine surveillance. The RNZAF bought them about 1965 along with the C130's. They are due to be replaced with Boeing P8 maritime patrol aircraft derived from late model Boeing 737 airframes".
Title: Lockheed, TR-1A (U-2S)
Catalog #: 01_00091002
Corporation Name: Lockheed
Designation: TR-1A (U-2S)
Additional Information: USA
Tags: Lockheed, TR-1A (U-2S)
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Air Force, improved versions are still being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta.
The Fighting Falcon has key features including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, a seat reclined 30 degrees to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system which helps to make it a nimble aircraft. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 locations for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", but "Viper" is commonly used by its pilots and crews, due to a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper starfighter.
In addition to active duty U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and Air National Guard units, the aircraft is also used by the USAF aerial demonstration team, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and as an adversary/aggressor aircraft by the United States Navy. The F-16 has also been procured to serve in the air forces of 25 other nations. As of 2015, it is the second most common currently operational military aircraft in the world
The prototype Lockheed A-12 (developed under the code name "Oxcart") on display at the Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, CA. Precursor to the later SR-71 Blackbird and one of only 18 built, this aircraft first flew on April 26, 1962. A-12s were used by the CIA in covert operations until the type's retirement in 1968. This aircraft made its maiden flight powered by the less powerful J75 engines originally installed. In the foreground is a Pratt & Whitney J58 bypass turbojet (turbo-ramjet), which was the power plant later used.
To see a close up of the engine: www.flickr.com/photos/wingmanphoto/8027898625/in/photostream
Part of the Heritage Paint Project, this S-3 has been painted to represent aircraft that fought in the Battle of Midway, June 1942. The paint scheme is a cross between VT and VS squadrons of June 1942.
MAVEN core structure lowered onto the propulsion tank at Lockheed Martin in Denver.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
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The goal of the Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) program is to determine the role that loss of atmospheric gas to space played in changing the Martian climate through time. MAVEN will determine how much of the Martian atmosphere has been lost over time by measuring the current rate of escape to space and gathering enough information about the relevant processes to allow extrapolation backward in time.
MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. The university will provide science operations, build instruments, and lead Education/Public Outreach. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will manage the MAVEN mission and provide instruments. Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colo., will build the spacecraft and perform mission operations. The University of California-Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory will build instruments for the mission. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will provide Program management via the Mars Program Office, as well as navigation support, the Deep Space Network, and the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The F-104 was a 50s, 60s era, USAF supersonic intercepter. It's short range relegated it to the role of point defense ie: airbases.
Another proposal called for less intrusive center bins (similar to the 767), and improved space in the side bins. It appears that the waffle luminaire ceiling panels were to be replaced by a large flat illuminated ceiling panel.
P3 Orion of the United States Navy waits to depart on a Joint Warrior 14-1 sortie from RAF Lossiemouth.
The Orion structural test article short stack, consisting of the service module and crew module, are being prepared for a model vibration test in a test chamber at Lockheed Martin near Denver. The structural test articles are structural twins of the flight Orion and are used to perform various test to how the structures will perform during launch, flight and landing.
I don't usually shoot much video, but I thought this would be a good time to try out the video on the A 77.
N974R at Ft.lauderdale in 1988 being
readied for a ferry flight to Maine.When
it took flight after 12 years of sitting at FLL it made an emergency landing at
W.Palm Beach then another attempt later made it to Sanford Florida where
it sat.It now belongs to Flight of Fantasy
and Maurice Roundy sold it at auction
December 2007 along with his other
two 1649As in Maine.The one in the
photo was delivered to the German Airline Lufthansa in 1957. I would like
to thank Phillip Kemp for letting me
on the ramp to visit the connie even
though he said in a news article at the
time he rather not have any visitors.
Current status on this connie is
wait and see.