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msmith1199 wrote: I took this photo a few years ago.
No doubt taken at a more recent Edwards AFB - AFFTC Open House and Air Show. I have many similar shots.
That's one of the nice things about air shows at Edwards, in that you can often get images of formations of aircraft of various generations and types, old and new, that you can't get anywhere else. The first public appearances of the latest prototypes and production aircraft are also usually at Edwards.
I've seen an AFFTC (actually, now just "AFTC") "Flight in Review" which included a KC-135 tanker, a B-52. B-1, B-2, F-15, F-16, F-117, F-18, T-33, T-38, C-17, AC-130...and P-51 Mustang all at once. Also awesome to see, a P-51 decorated in the livery of Chuck Yeager's "Glamorous Glennis" flying next to an F-15 with the same nose art...it was even more awesome when Yeager was flying one of them.
I'll have to pull some of my images off the drive pulled from an old computer.
BTW, this is when a B-2 is visually "stealthy". Nose on, it's like a flat piece of paper flying at you. I've spent hours watching them on test missions and, at times, you can barely see them till they turn.
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What freaked me out one day was driving on Fort Wainwright Army Post along the main road following the runway as I 'entered the zone' right before the runway flashing lights were activated to stop traffic from proceeding.....
Well, driving along the roadway crossing where aircraft takeoff at the end of the runway along the path, this huge RUSSIAN cargo plane was probably 150 ft or so above me upon takeoff, as I found out later on it was the first russian aircraft of anykind that had landed and taken off at Fort Wainwright....Seeing that russian lettering and insignia in real life looked intimidating to me.
My Mom had gotten an autograph from a couple of B-2 pilots Steve Chappez and Buzz Barrett back in 1996.
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Yes that shot was at Edwards at the last air show they had there. I think it was Oct 2010? Or was it 2009? I don't remember but it was the one where Chuck Yeager went up in the F-16 and broke the sound barrier for probably his last time ever.
It's thought that many UFO sightings were/are experimental military craft. Google places like RAF Woodbridge for interesting reports of unidentified objects reported by military folks.
Hammerhead wrote: It's thought that many UFO sightings were/are experimental military craft. Google places like RAF Woodbridge for interesting reports of unidentified objects reported by military folks.
In my neck of the woods, not far from Edwards AFB and Palmdale, CA, the home of Defense Plant 42, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, and divisions of Boeing's Phantom Works, such "UFO" sightings are commonplace. Probably, almost as commonplace as such sightings at Area 51 since they have to be built here, before they are flown there.
I've always been an aviation nut and grew up flying in light private aircraft piloted by my dad and uncle. I have, quite literally, missed only one Edwards AFB airshow since I was six years old and have traveled to many other air shows throughout the country.
When I still worked in law enforcement, and before I went to work for the DOD, I lived on a ridge about 6000 feet in elevation in a nearby rural community. My nearest neighbor, who lived a quarter of a mile away, was a KC-135 pilot for test programs at Edwards AFB.
I had read "informed speculation" about a "Stealth Bomber" in Aviation Week and other publications but it had not yet been publicly rolled it.
One moonless night, a few hours after dark, I heard the sound of aircraft overhead. I want out on the deck, looked up, and could barely see the shadow of a flying wing with a small chase aircraft on each wing. None of them were showing navigation lights. I called my neighbor and told him I thought it was "Stealth Bomber". His EXACT words were, "There's no TELLING what that is." In other words, he knew, but couldn't say. A month later, after the official public unveiling, he told me I was right and that it was a B-2 I had seen that night.
AstroRig, remember back when the plane crashed in the Kern River canyon one night? The military sealed the area tighter than a drum. Years later they revealed it was an F-117 back before anybody admitted they even existed.
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