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SR-72 Darkstar photographed on the ramp at Edwards.

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Oh yeah, the airshow twitter acct also shows pix of ED F-16 88-0456 with new tail paint commemorating 75th anniversary of supersonic flight.

Various squadron cars, trucks, buses that I've caught at air shows over the years... https://live.staticflickr.com/4058/4322885026_be17283a5d_b.jpg 2007, haven't seen it in a few years https://live.staticflickr.com/5597/15275245887_fea5bbe551_b.jpg 2014 https://live.staticflickr.com/2949/15275233787...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52421115916_9859fb66de_b.jpg 17 SQ visiting from Edwards https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52421559925_d1afaafc9d_b.jpg I don't know if this is a thing in Europe, but the Navy and Marines LOVE their squadron cars. They towed this one from Arizona. https://live....

Cool to see a Miramar based sq halfway around the world showing the colors. 323 did an especially great job on their CAG bird. Note the diamonds on the fin flash show 3-2-3. IIRC, the Death Rattlers will be the last USMC squadron flying the legacy Hornet.

On Wednesday, September 28, at around 20:45 local time (03:18 UTC of Thursday), the Boeing 747SP, registration N747NA, owned by NASA and modified to carry a reflecting telescope for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), operated its last flight ever. Last science flight almo...

A plane would be good indeed. I don't spot booths though.... ;-) Back at the last Edwards show in 2009 the Danes displayed their JSF test support F-16, so I would like to think the Brits will be able to display something. Just to be on the safe side, I made sure to get photos AND swag at Miramar.

My head would explode if I tried writing down all those numbers. One picture is worth a thousand reg numbers, and all that. Luckily there is plenty of room for all types of spotters. Glad to hear you got out of Florida before Ian came to visit. How was the Virgin flight to JFK? Back in 2018 I took m...

FB page for the air show now lists MiG-29 and SOFIA (NASA 747 static AND flying, according to web page). https://www.facebook.com/avairshow Oh, I was talking to the Brits from 17SQ at Miramar (they brought a F-35B). They were not 100% sure, but they were confident they would have some presence at th...

27 Sept Flying all day, starting with a C-17 arrival over the beach at ~730am. However, I was out only 1715-1830 to catch the light. US Navy VT-7 Training Wing 1 A1xx McDonnell Douglas T-45C Goshawk A170/BUNO 165162 A157/BUNO 165599 //at least one additional jet flew up the bay and landed on runway...

26 Sept If you're in Southern California right now, and you want to see Goshawks in the air, they are flying ~800a-700p. As much as I love the beach I was out only for a few hours in the afternoon (not to mention I was out at Miramar in the AM looking for a B-29). US Navy Training Wing 2 B2xx McDon...

26 Sept

departing off runway 24

California Air National Guard 144 FW
McDonnell Douglas F-15C
86-0144 //marked 144 FW
84-0017

US Air Force Reserve 336th ARS
Boeing KC-135R
58-0085

Boeing B-29 Superfortress
N69972/44-69972 aka 'Doc'

24 Sept Probably my sloppiest report yet. Sitting in my living room and hear prop engines that made me think a warbird came down from the Miramar airshow. Definitely NOT a C-2, C-130, King Air or anything that normally flies out of North Island, sounds more like 70-80 year old non turbo prop engines...

22 September US Navy VX-9 Vampires "Vandy" Boeing F-18F Super Hornet XE 444 //These kids made one of the best overhead breaks I've heard in years-- they came in very fast and were so loud at first I thought it was an F-35 Rampart Aviation "Kahuna" de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter N4...

21 Sept Rampart Aviation "Kahuna" de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter N403ML //Kahuna 03 N368SS //Kahuna 68 Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Doc" OK, she didn't take off from or land at NASNI, she went in a straight line from Brown Field to Pt Loma, passing 1-2 miles off Dog Beach, but she D...