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F15E Strike eagle through Cad West 25/04/2023

 

Unknown - to the world at large - test pilot Neil Armstrong with fellow test pilots, photographed during their participation in the "Boost Program" tests conducted 1958 - 1959 at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.

 

NASA SP-2000-4520, "Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center", written by Gene L. Waltman contains a section about the program, and, this very photo, on page 37.

 

The sign on the wall reads "DO NOT TAKE ANY OF THESE “G” SUITS FOR ANY REASON".

 

The immensely readable, enjoyable and informative publication is available at:

www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88787main_Black_Magic.pdf.

 

Check out the differing helmets...sort of like the "SETP Pro Bowl".

Duxford airshow September 3rd 2011

Scanned image from the Permann Collection from the "AI Gadgets" album--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

Prototype helmet for the Eurofighter Typhoon. Cathode Ray Tubes inside this helmet project information onto the visor. This allows the pilot to view flight and weapons data without having to look at the instrument panel. Scottish, BAe Systems about 2005.

A Marine flyer since 1935, Colonel Gregory “Pappy” Boyington was encouraged to resign his commission to fly with the Flying Tigers in China. There he got credit for six Japanese planes. But when he applied for reinstatement in the Marine Corps, he found himself disgraced for “having left the Corps in time of national emergency.” For nearly three months he parked cars in a Seattle garage until, in desperation, he telegraphed an Under Secretary of the Navy. In a few days he was on the way to the South Pacific where he was given a squadron of misfits. These pilots, unwanted by other outfits, and led by the oldest active Marine fighter pilot, made one of the great records of the war. The heart of this book is the colorful story of Boyington’s Black Sheep Squadron.

 

“Pappy” Boyington was a wild, hard drinking, professional Marine flyer who was one of the most unconventional heroes of World War II. As wild and independent as he was, he was a competent leader of men and had no desire to change his ways. He had never let anyone kick him around, and he saw no reason why he should let the Japanese do so in the air or after he was taken prisoner.

 

Winner of a Congressional Medal of Honor and a Navy Cross for his achievements while leading the Black Sheep Squadron, “Pappy” Boyington had twenty months as a prisoner of the Japanese in which to gain emotional maturity and sobriety. He freely admitted that during the nearly two years he spent as a P.O.W. his health improved due to the enforced sobriety. He retired from the Marine Corps on August 1, 1947.

 

Many people know of Pappy Boyington from the mid-1970s television show Baa Baa Black Sheep, a drama about the Black Sheep squadron based very loosely on Boyington's memoir, with Boyington portrayed by Robert Conrad. Many of Boyington's men were irate over this show, charging it was mostly fiction and presented a glamorized portrayal of Boyington. Boyington himself often told interviewers and audiences that the television series was fiction and only loosely related to actual history. Here is a 1970’s interview with Boyington and the actor who portrayed him on television, Robert Conrad.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjSibbD9dxw

 

Catalog #: HNA-46

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Photo of Grumman F4F Wildcat.

VF-3 Jimmie Thach, Butch O’Hare

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

 

Catalog #: 10_0013962

Title: Bendix Air Race

Additional Information: Bendix Air Race

Tags: Bendix Air Race, Bendix Air Race

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

de Julián Meizoso García.

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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external hard drive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.

 

Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... Thanks in advance!

(Navy Aircraft Squadrons - Elite Units) United States Naval Aviators @ NAF Atsugi

Title: [Military Personnel Using Link Trainer with Kollsman Instrument Panel, Randolph Field]

 

Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie

 

Date: February 1943

 

Place: San Antonio, Texas

 

Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection

 

Description: Military personnel training on a Link Aviation flight simulator with a Kollsman instrument panel.

 

Physical Description: 1 negative: film, black and white; 12.0 x 10.0 cm

 

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✈️ Aircraft: Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor

🌐 Owner/User: USAF

📍 Location: RAF Fairford - FFD - EGVA - RIAT

📅 Date: 14.07.2017

For the new employer campaign protagonists were staged in their various activities in the Bundeswehr. The Eurofighter pilot Hauptmann Ulrike Flender was accompanied by the camera team at the location of Luftwaffe squadron 73 "Steinhoff" in Laage. // The new employer campaign shows protagonists in their different working areas. A crew crew filmed Eurofighter pilot captain Ulrike Flender at the air base in Laage.

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Für die neue Arbeitgeberkampagne wurden Protagonisten in ihren unterschiedlichen Tätigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr in Szene gesetzt. Die Eurofighterpilotin Hauptmann Ulrike Flender wurde am Standort des Luftwaffengeschwaders 73 „Steinhoff“ in Laage vom Kamerateam begleitet. // The new employer campaign shows protagonists in their different working areas. A camera crew filmed Eurofighter pilot captain Ulrike Flender at the air base in Laage.

Lt. Albert C. Gamache Jr. would survive the war and later fly the F-86F with the 45thFIS, Sidi Slimane AB, French Morocco. Photo courtesy of Jeff Pardue , grandson of Albert C. Gamache Jr.

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Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker 39 of the Ukrainian air force

Au coucher du soleil le Mirage III monte la garde sur la BA116...a la fin de une journee de Commémoration dedie aux 100 ans de la mort du Capitaine Georges Guynemer....A la Chasse Bordel!!

We like to make collages that have mystic and spiritual undertones. This is one of them.

FA-123 taking off with full afterburner from Kleine Brogel.

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PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 30, 2008) - The pilot of an F/A-18C Hornet, assigned to the "Rough Riders" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 125, salutes the catapult officer, or "shooter," before launching from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is underway in the Pacific Ocean conducting routine carrier operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (AW) Christopher D. Blachly.

(RELEASED)

November, 9, Monday.

A guest from sunny Mexico ignored nasty weather of Russian November and came to Nizhny Novgorod to perform Edge of Space flight onboard MiG-29UB jet fighter.

Гость из солнечной Мексики не побоялся ноябрьской непогоды и прибыл в Нижний Новгород, чтобы совершить полет в стратосферу на борту истребителя Миг-29 УБ.

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(Navy Aircraft Squadrons - Elite Units) A United States Naval Aviator @ NAF Atsugi

Photo from an album (AL230) showing the 352nd Fighter Group in England during World War Two. Uknown Donor.

 

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

 

hoto from an album (AL230) showing the 352nd Fighter Group in England during World War Two. Uknown Donor.

 

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

Operation Cactus Starfighter 2010 read more about operation at www.phxspotters.com

Carey Lohrenz, WSJ best selling author, fighter pilot, motivational speaker

Blasting out of Kleine Brogel during the 2021 spottersdays.

Former fighter pilot Matt Hall (current Red Bull Series Pilot) flying his Aerobatic Extra 300L in Sunday 7th May 2017 at the Wings Over Illawarra - just south of Wollongong at Albion Park.

 

Apparently to be allowed into the Red Bull series you need to certified as one of the "Top 10" Pilots internationally ... not quite sure how that works!?

Excuse my lack of knowledge here since this was my first Air Show.

Catalog #: 02-P-00205

Last Name: Peters

First Name: C K "Daddy Rabbit"

Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

(Navy Aircraft Squadrons - Elite Units) United States Naval Aviators @ NAF Atsugi

Captain Zoe Kotnik talking to the air show crowd in front of her F-16C, on static display. Langley Air Force Base

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📆 April 24th, 2016

✈️ F-16C, Shaw AFB, Fighting Fifty Fifth

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Urban "Ben" Drew was famous for flying his P-51 Mustang "Detroit Miss" in the ETO during WWII. After completion of his European tour, Drew served with the 413th Fighter Squadron, 414th Fighter Group, flying P-47N-5s from Iwo Jima. I have chosen to depict his "Jug" being serviced on Iwo Jima in 1945.

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New photos from our MiG-29 October flights! More pics➡️

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Red Baron`s Hero

 

pour le mérite after 8 victories on Jan 12th 1916 together with Max Immelmann

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I realize this is an unusual crop. But LOOK at those after burners. Wow!

 

Taken at Wings Over Houston 2006.

Royal Canadian Air Force Master Cpl. James Robertson, aviation technician, and Capt. Iain Hannam, pilot, both with the 409th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, adjust a dummy bomb on a CF-18 Hornet jet during Maple Flag in Edmonton/Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, June 03, 2014. Maple Flag is an international exercise designed to enhance the interoperability of C-130 aircrews, maintainers and support specialists in a simulated combat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smith/Released)

    

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