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The Blue Angels flying in tight formation during their recent homecoming show at NAS Pensacola. www.navalaviationmuseum.org/blueangels/
===AIRCRAFT INFORMATION===
Registration: M52-12
Aircraft: Sukhoi Su-30MKM
Aircraft Manufacturer: Sukhoi Aviation Corporation
Serial No./ MSN: 10MK3202
Aircraft Delivery Date: N/A
Livery: Normal
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Singapore Airshow 2018
Airshow Frecce Tricolori 2019-06-23 a Punta Marina di Ravenna, Italy, Italian flag painted in the air with smoke by fighter jet formation.
This Mig-21 is a classic Soviet era supersonic fighter plan. It is outside at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo; I hope it is maintained, because it is a vintage aircraft from a bygone era.
I like this shot a lot, with the setting sun, blue sky and frigid snow.
I am eager to see how the DSLR version came out!
Legacy Blues
One of the highlights of my career, refueling the US Navy Blue Angels. Having grown up watching them perform in the A-4 Skyhawk and transition to the F/A-18A, this was quite the treat.
Vandy 1 a black painted FA/18F Super Hornet is the Squadron Commander Aircraft for VX-9 (Air, Test and Evaluation Squadron). The Squadron nickname is The Vampires and is based at China Lake California.
The Viper performance was pretty cool. Unfortunately the cloud cover basically prevented most sharp ascents (low ceiling), but it was cool to see anyway.
French Air Force display team adding a bit of colour to a very dark morning in the valleys of North Wales.
“MX-324 ROCKET WING - (1944) -- Northrop’s Rocket Wing MX-324 was America’s first military rocket airplane. It was completed in 1944 under strict secrecy; the world did not learn of its existence until early in 1947. Its first flight was made in the presence of a few Northrop and U. S. Air Force personnel July 5, 1944, at Harper’s Dry Lake near Barstow, California. The MX-324 was a Flying Wing of 36-foot wing span with a prone cockpit. The prone cockpit enabled the pilot to lie flat and withstand higher accelerations. The MX-324 was powered by an Aerojet XCAL-200 rocket motor, which used monoethylaniline, oxidized with red fuming nitric acid, as fuel. Other glider-type models (MX-334) were designed to take off and land on skids.”
That’s some ‘out of the cockpit’ thinking, although the fuel mixture seems particularly…unappealing.
As you might expect, multiple articles are available online.