OK, dish on this picture. It looks like you're standing over an R/C model.

Written on 2021年 02月 11日

Spins in a F-14 are terrible things. I spent September and October of 1987 at Pax River setting up an ECAMS computer for the F/A-18 program, and they were testing devices to get a Tomcat out of a flat spin (the most dangerous spin for this a/c). I don't know whatever became of that testing (it was classified at the time), but I never saw it in the fleet and assume they abandoned the effort when they decided to decommission the Tomcats.

Written on 2020年 12月 31日

Thought for a minute this was Kenwood Air at the top of Lake Washington, but then I saw the bigger picture and noticed the Jim Air sign.
Really nice Beaver pic (pun intended). :)

Written on 2020年 12月 24日

Cool that the registration number has "911" and it has a Maltese cross on the vertical stab.

Written on 2020年 11月 25日

I'm going to take a stab at guessing this is a late-model "F". Basing that on what I've read, this has the chin turret, but the cheek guns are still both in the forward window. The "G" models moved the right cheek gun to the middle window.

Written on 2020年 11月 12日

Looks like they ripped off the designs if the F-16 and F-18 and then smashed it all into one aircraft.

Written on 2020年 10月 23日

"What do you mean you didn't see me on final?"

Written on 2020年 10月 01日

Really nice shot.
I never realized how much of a cantilever the DC-6 had.

Written on 2020年 06月 03日

C.W., maybe you and I ended up on one together. My only flight on an RJ-85 was FAT-LAX in the mid 80s - probably 86 or 87, I can't quite remember which trip coming home from Lemoore that was.

Written on 2020年 05月 28日

Is this Iwakuni?

Written on 2020年 05月 22日