quote Originally posted by shemdogg: Its a weird looking place, a half built building w a pile of rubble out front... CLICK FOR FULL SIZE

I had to zoom in to see whether that building was going up or coming down! That's a very interesting looking site indeed.

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I went to a bunch of air shows years ago- including a few that were viewed from the USS Coral Sea while I was in the Navy.

Best two were at Beale AB in N.CA (Saw the SR-71 fly!!!!!) and Moffet Field- lots of experimental aircraft ++++

Here are some pics;


XV-15 experimental tilt-rotor....and the old blimp hanger before they took the skin off- they actually had a balloon you could go up in...INSIDE that blimp hanger!


Best aircraft the Blue Angels ever flew was the A-4 Skyhawk




Don't know how I TIMED this shot- Got all SIX Angels in the crossing- look at them vs peoples heads....


During the Iran Crisis, in the Sea of Arabia, the Nimitz put on an airshow for us (We returned the favor) but here is an F-14 @ M2 leaving a wake in the water!

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quote Originally posted by cvxjet: Don't know how I TIMED this shot- Got all SIX Angels in the crossing- look at them vs peoples heads....

Good shot! I tried to tweak it a bit.




Alternate universe...

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning, 1937.

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The under ten children played this wayback, I spent perhaps all of half an hour flying a P-47 on a mission in France to a Luftwaffe airfield, the sim faithfully showing compressibility.
A fun game, I guess, not a gamer in any way shape or form, at all.
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This photo is Mitsubishi in Japan, we did the very same thing here in Toronto, for the Nuke Generators.
That is a very expensive shaft, ~ 20M, and why they are lifting it up from the machine carefully.

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