Pictures taken at/over Edwards or the nearby dry lakebeds.
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>>64943865I actually shidded near the runway.
>>64944629It is incredible that they used to just allow children to walk up to stuff like this. Makes me sad that kids cannot have dreams of space anymore.
>>64945386Blame thirdies and muslims. I remember getting to sit in the cockpit of a 747 over the Atlantic on a United flight as a kid, something my children will never be able to experience.
>>64945445>I remember getting to sit in the cockpit of a 747Same, I distinctly remember the stewardesses coming round and asking if anyone wanted to go and take a look
>>64945445Saw the cockpit in a Pan Am 747 back in the 80s. LAX to Heathrow. Pretty cool.
Highly recommend the movie "Toward the Unknown".It's basically a showcase of Edwards AFB
07/27/1972YF-15A-1-MC s/n 71-0280 the first airplanefirst flight from Edwards AFB
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>>64946184Heard of, never seen
>>64943872Imagine strapping into this piece of 1970's kino and breaking the sound barrier
>>649563141970s?
>>64956329Lots of brainlet videogamers on this board, anon
>>64952491>>64955409Yf-22 looks so much better than the production model.
>>64947617>>64947648>>64948417>Yo Buddy
>>64947412Its kinda ironic that Chuck Yeager outlived everyone playing him in the Right Stuff. Sam Shepard, kraut pilot that actually flew F-104 in the movie and pic related, guy who died during filming of the movie doing parachute stunts. He probably suffocated due smoke canister attached to his helmet and slammed on desert floor without activating main or reserve parachute.
>>64963372Check the mission markings on Balls Eight.
>>64963977That whole F-104 scene was so kino.
>>64965393Whole movie is kino.
>>64967102Hey Ridley, you got any Beemans?
>>64967135I might have me a stick.
>>64967142Will lend me some will ya, I'll pay you back.
>>64967151Fair enough.
>>64967159I think I see a plane over there with my name on it.
>>64967102>Whole movie is kino.This. The nod to the Happy Bottom Riding Club was excellent. >subtle>if you know, you know
>>64967167Now you're talkin'.
>>64963372>>64963995It should be in the Smithsonian
>>64959543pointier
>>64968997They have limited space, being gate guard at Edwards is in my opinion good enough place to display balls 8. If they are going to put a B-52 in Smithsonian, current gate guard in Kirtland AFB would be more deserving. It has actually dropped a live thermonuclear weapon. Probably most deserving airframe to be preserved would be one that dropped dominic housatonic since it is highest yield nuke US plane has ever dropped. Assuming aircraft still exists.
>>64969107There is no aircraft gate guard at kirtland. The SOW campus has a few helos and planes on sticks and the guard campus has a couple fighters but none of the gates have an aircraft.
>>64960047>>64970926kino
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this is only kind of tangentially related to edwards, but im a civilian and want to visit nellis. i wont go into detail but my great grandfather has some stuff named after him there and it would be awesome to see it and some of the baseis the only way to tour these places to be brought by someone that is active duty?im not a chinese spy i swear
>>64977196(idk about Nellis) I know that feel. Visited Florida recently and while in the panhandle wanted to daytrip for the Naval Aviation Museum. Found out that since it's an integral part of the base you can't access without some .mil flesh advocating for or giving you an entry pass.
>>64977217its unfortunate. I'll probably email the public relations again and try the base commander if im feeling really frisky. i mean my name is on their shit thats gotta be worth something
>>64977248Good luck
>>64978171thanks bud. ill update if anything happens. and obviously post photos if i can
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>>64982776Fun fact about the YF-16s is that when they fist took to the skies, they didn't have much in the way of navigation equipment other than radio-nav. The plane was restricted to daytime flight only. They weren't even equipped with any exterior lights. If either plane had to do a cross-country flight, it was accompanied by a F-4 to lead the way.
>>64986982>EnterpriseDamn shame it never went to space.
nice YF-16 (and RF-4C) pics
>>64944445Don't those use hypergolic fuel?
>>64988381DC-3s used avgas
>>64988652>skunk on the tailSo what would Skunkworks do with a 2-seat F-16?>chase plane for spook projects?>Have Blue?
>>64988652kino image>>64988826They do a lot more than solely "spook" dark work (which is a cold war urban legend characterizaation due to their knowledge and research from 1958 forward on 'stealth' low observables technology overall) and this X-62 is a flight control systems program that Lockheed / Skunk Works has much legacy experience on from the A-12 aka "blackbird" forward e.g. how to retain aerodynamic stability of an airplane at Mach 3 cruise.X-62 is also incorporating autonomous control aka robotic AI flight into the test program.
>>64944625From the thumbnail I was expecting some big stealth bomber.
>>64998802Power and speed was where it was.
>>64947617>>64947648>>64948417It's wild that they started testing the F-15 while Apollo missions were flying to the moon.>>64963877Which leads me to believe the Belkans went to space.
>>64998773>>64999995>>65000001>>65001674superb
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>>65010001Imagine going to test pilot school, studying and learning everything, looking up to the great X-plane pilots throughout the 50s, 60s, and 70s breaking record after record. Impossible feats in incredible aircraft. Their names literally written into history books.And then they give you this tiny and unimpressive plane.Look at his face, that says it all.
>>65010023kekI think it had potential.
>>64982769sim image
>>64944442early version with original cockpit
>>64998773didn't know nasa used those too. my old man worked on the f 111a after finishing top of his class. he was only motivated to take leave and go home. he only talked about the perfect assholes on the woman who worked at the bunny ranch
>>65010023fat man in a little plane
>>65010023dudes that fucking went to the moon lmao
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>>64968997Nice to see you again, Shawn
Wish I had a camera back in the day, but when I was in Highschool I was in Air Force ROTC in a nearby town and I spent a lot of time at Edwards because it was one of the closest Air Force Bases to us. I got to visit the Museum there a few times, and get guided bus tours of the flight line up to the NASA ramp and back. Plus, we'd go to the Airshow there as often as we could So I could nearly die from heat stroke walking onto the playa back to our bus. Shit was cash.
>>65027789(not Edwards, that is Groom Lake Nevada) Here's the correct image
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>>65035720That would look awesome on my front yard.
>>65025777>>65031348checked original series F-15A, best F-15
