My Best Aviation Pix pg 14

My Best Aviation Photos Eye Candy - # 14	Bob Bogash

November 2003 - Arrival of Concorde G-BOAG at Museum of Flight

Curtiss P-40

Boeing's first airplane from 1916 - the B&W Replica.

A scene not seen every day

USN Grumman E-1 Tracer - known as the Willie Fudd
First purpose built Airborne Early Warning aircraft - Pensacola

Canadair Regional Jet - Santa Rosa, California

Lockheed Electra 10-E
Identical to Amelia Earhart airplane
This airplane has successfully circumnavigated the World.
Click here for the full story.

Dash 80 (707 Prototype) in Plant II
Subsequently flown to Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

Departing Alaska Airlines 737 passing Lake Washington Floating Bridge

Angola 777 - PAE

Whidbey Island Naval Air Station

Concorde + 787 at BFI

Aloha 737 at Kona

MIG-17
I found a new home for this bird at March AFB Museum in California

USAF Gulfstream - Bremerton

Beech Staggerwing

Air Force One - Boeing 707 (VC-137B)

USAF C-17

Concorde G-BOAG "Alpha Golf"

Idlewild (JFK) - 1960

Aeronca 7 Champ ("Airknocker")
Designed to compete with the Piper J-3 Cub, the Champ featured many improvements
addressing the Cub's shortcomings, including the ability to solo from the front seat.

Airborne 767 Freighter landing BFI

MOF Super Connie CF-TGE

T-6 (SNJ in Navy)

Herk

This strange looking bird with even stranger markings
is a German built Dornier DO-328.
Its strange and only tail marking is "23040".
It's Owner/Operator is non-other than: USAF
who designate it as a C-146A Wolfhound.
USAF operate 20 as Special Air Missions (Spy Support) planes.

CV-880

Kenmore Air Turbo Otter -- Roche Harbor

Dassault Falcon -- BFI
One fine looking airplane - IMHO

787

Kalitta Air Charters 737-400 at BFI flown for the Arizona Coyotes Hockey Team

Guppy

Produced by Aero Spacelines, and an assortment of other associated support/legacy companies, a series of Guppies were created using Boeing 377 Stratocruiser airframes. Work was done at Van Nuys and Santa Barbara, California, where I took these photographs. An assortment of ex-airline Stratocruisers were used as well as some USAF KC-97 aircraft.

They were dubbed Guppy, Mini-Guppy, Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy.

Guppy Base

Guppy under construction

Mini-Guppy
Can be seen today at Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon

Super Guppy

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This aircraft is a Super Guppy and is used by NASA.
It caries oversize rocket and missile hardware.

With the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet, NASA donated Shuttles to various museums.

The Museum of Flight, despite being the most prepared (a special building constructed just for the Shuttle), lacked the D.C. political clout. The real Shuttles went elsewhere, but the Museum did receive the Shuttle Trainer that all Shuttle crews had trained on. It was flown from Houston to Boeing Field on a NASA Super Guppy - a much modified Boeing Stratocruiser.

Arrival date was 30 June 2012

Space Shuttle Trainer in Museum of Flight

Despite not being a real Shuttle, it was a fully operational simulator.

Couldn't resist this one!

Down in the Dutch Antilles

Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire
Three more places I used to work

Beech Queen Air

ALM was the airline of the Dutch Antilles, and initially operated as part of KLM.
When the Antilles became independent from the Netherlands, the government acquired the airline.
The Antilles subsequently splintered (Aruba became independent);
KLM moved in and out of association with the airline.
Ultimately, the airline failed and ceased to operate in 2001.

F-27

DC-9

...and a Venezuelan Viscount that ran over daily from Caracas.

737
Yakutia is the largest republic in Russia
Located in the Russian Far East

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Flying with my good friend Tom Imrich in his Cessna 172
Tom is a retired Boeing test pilot.
We shot an (Tom devised) R-NAV approach into Center Island (78WA).

At 1600 ft long and a little "rough", with tall trees all around, she's a bit of a challenge.
But not for Capt. Tom!!!

Learjet - PAE

Twin Otter on amphibious floats -- Lopez Island

Stinson Model "O" - semi-Replica

Now in Museum of Flight

The Model O was originally designed by Robert Hall, who also designed the Gee Bee racers and the Hall “Bulldog” parasol racer. He later served as design engineer and test pilot for the famous Grumman “Cat” series of World War II Navy fighters, the Avenger torpedo bomber, and other Grumman airplanes well into the jet era.

BBJ

SAAB 340 -- BFI

Dassault Falcon

MD-82F ex-American - BFI

NOAA King Air -- PAE

Cockpit -- CH-47 Chinook
This is the oldest flying Chinook in the U.S. Army.....

...... and here she is departing BFI, with a wave.

F-4C Phantom

Human powered aircraft.
Backup aircraft to Gossamer Albatross I that crossed the English Channel.
Bryan Allen - pilot; 22 miles in 2 hrs 49 min; Avg altitude 5 ft. 12 Jun 1979