Aviation Photos

[Spurshot]

I thought I'd start a thread on Aviation. It's my career field and a lifelong interest.

 

A few years ago, I had an opportunity to see the Dreamlifter 747 LCF (Large Cargo Freighter) up close. As an employee of the company, there are sometimes unique opportunities. I was in a meeting when someone said there were a few spots open for a tour that very afternoon...2 hour drive away. ...each way. I jumped on it.

 

The 747 LCF Dreamlifter is named after the the 787 Dreamliner as it was devised as a way to transport the fuselage and wing sections from around the globe, to the two locations the 787 is assembled, Everett WA and Charleston SC.

 

Literally, the top half of a standard 747-400 was cut off and replaced with the bulbous half tube that would allow room for the 787 fuselage sections. The main deck and lower cargo deck are not pressurized. A huge flat pressure bulkhead was built to keep the forward section pressurized.

 

 

 

 

The huge 787 fuselage cradles.

 

 

Pretty standard 747-400 flight deck. Not so standard flight crew.

 

 

[Spurshot]

Some pix from the Chino, CA airshow 6-7 years ago.

 

 

 

[newdude]

Oh boy! I will have to add to this when I get home. I've been hanging out at our local airport since I was 3-4 years old.

[Spurshot]

My Pitts Special taken circa 1978 when I was flying it to my home airport after purchasing it.

 

Circa 1979 I had landed on a road near Randsburg, CA. My brother and some friends were there for some dirt bike riding.

[doverarjim]

I know the owner and pilot of the TigerCat, I have some pictures from Reno and the Fun in Sun event 3 years ago. I'll work at posting some of them.

[Spurshot]

I know the owner and pilot of the TigerCat, I have some pictures from Reno and the Fun in Sun event 3 years ago. I'll work at posting some of them.

Jim,

My recollection is that Steve Hinton was flying the Tigercat that day, doing aerobatics.

[Spurshot]

The delivery flight flyby of the second to last 717 from Long Beach, CA.

[doverarjim]

Yeah, I know Steve and his brother John and I think that now everyone knows Stevie. Plane is owned by Rod Lewis from Texas, Stewart Dawson flies it alot. Photobucket was being weird or I would have gotten some pictures up. 3 years ago at Fun & Sun I got a picture of Steve flying Glacier Girl, with a Mustang, and a (I don't remember) F111. I'll work at getting some up.

[VTBulldog]

I am on the other end of the aviation field from you guys......

 

 

 

Maintenance Specialist here in Lebanon, NH. Just finished up plowing, sweeping, and blowing off runways and taxiways when this picture was taken over the winter.

[Victor Ferreira]

Well, I'm also a sucker for aviation. Here are some of the ones I have uploaded.

 

 

Sorry for the spam! This is one of my favorite hobbies (if you couldn't tell). My dad worked in aviation for years, and my uncle still does. Sometimes I wonder if I should have followed

[Spurshot]

Another F-7

 

[barry G]

some military stuff. I was tail end of strategic crew chief on the tankers. (animal, lunatic, and insane)

 

would upload if it let me.

 

one I saved when cameras were suddenly huge.

nikon d3 from 2007.

anyone remember photos back then..?

 

this was an amazing shot.

 

 

amazing to see a shot like this not long ago.

 

tail 1491.

I was assigned to this in 1992 or 1.

was just going from crazy APU and jp4 back then, over to jp8.

 

went to junk in 2008.

 

had my hands on many planes. transient crew chief etc.

I put in most of the screws on 1491s last floor change.

 

all plywood of course... old tin can planes.

Edited April 30, 2016 by barry G

[RyanbabZ71]

Cool photos

 

I am also in the aerospace industry

 

We had our 100th anniversary last October

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wright Patterson AFB

 

 

My favorite plane

 

 

 

V22s landing in the parking lot at work a few yrs ago

 

 

 

 

 

Ryan

[barry G]

one of very few planes without my hands on it:

osprey is one of them...f14 is the other.

 

the c130 is a long lasting one.. no end in sight.

 

I remember them landing, very hard days for the crew...early 90s.

gulf stuff.

leaks and what not, they had to keep going to get to bangor maine anyway.

 

very real.. less formal. Real mechanicals...down and dirty. same as the tankers around that time for some of us...same for a lot of planes.

I remember a c5 exploding an engine on the tarmac.

gulf related mishap, decided to fail in bangor maine..

 

modern photos, always pretty.

you won't find 1491 with a center tank leak..

 

carbon ugly engines, smears from crew chiefs fingers on the cowlings.

hydraulic, and the odors..

 

I got my own cameras for the lack of air force journalism...therapy.

Edited April 30, 2016 by barry G

[Spurshot]

So much of my aviation pictures are film. I put down my Nikon F2 cameras around 1977 and didn't really start up again until 30 years later.