My Best Aviation Pix pg 15

My Best Aviation Photos Eye Candy - # 15	Bob Bogash

BFI

Caravelle
For my friend Barry Schiff.
We agree - one of the best looking airliners.

Convair 990 at JFK - 1968
Pretty good looking in its own right.

This one is not too shabby either!!!

Paine Field - Everett, Washington
Boeing Plant and Flight Line

Boeing Everett

Olympia

757 at Chicago ORD

Boeing Military Ramp -- BFI

727 - Honolulu - Note British Registry
Delivery flight, JAL to Dan-Air London, and then to numerous other operators.

Messerschmidt Me-163 Komet
Only rocket powered fighter aircraft - reached 700 mph.

During the 6 years I spent as Boeing Rep at Honolulu, we changed a lot of engines!
The Pratt JT9D was very unreliable; we could have an engine failure every day.
These usually required an engine change, since the failures were not "minor."
Usually - an airplane arrived with an engine shutdown.
Inspection often revealed MIT - Metal in Tailpipe - broken turbine blades.

Spare engines were carried back and forth using 5th engine pods - as shown here.
I think we averaged about 50 5th Pod Installations/Removals per month.
In addition to failed engine changes, United did scheduled engine changes in HNL.
The time differences allowed them to do the engine change during the over-night.
The airplane would arrive carrying the spare; it was installed
and the removed engine was carried as a 5th Pod for return to SFO.

SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne completed the first crewed private spaceflight in 2004.
That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize
and was immediately retired from active service.
It currently hangs in the Smithsonian.

Air Force One - 707 / VC-137B
IR (Infra-red) Jammer - part of air defense system.
Intended to defeat heat-seeking missiles.

Fouga Magister belonging to friends Jon ("E.T.") and Ann ("Perky") Bowman

Guns

B-25

B-17 Flying Fortress

B-17

B-24

B-24 Waist Gunner

B-24

AD Skyraider

PBY

Mustang

Messerschmidt Bf109

B-36

B-52 Quad 50 cal machine guns (through "G" Model)

Republic F-105 "Thud"

One M61 Vulcan 20 mm 6-barrel Gatling-style cannon was installed in the left side of the nose.

Hawker Sea Fury at PAE
429 mph in Reno Air Races

That's a Pratt R-4360 under the hood!

Paine Field

Grumman F4F Wildcat (actually GM FM-2)
Under restoration at MOF PAE

Feiseler Storch
Widely used German design.
Evacuated Mussolini off mountain side.
Personal aircraft of British Gen. Bernard Montgomery.

A rare bird - a Piaggio P-180 Avanti at BFI.
An Italian twin-turboprop pusher similar to Beech Starship
The FAI lists it as the fastest propeller-driven aircraft with speed of 576.3 mph.

A V.I.P. 757 at Boeing Field

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My RV-12 N737G at Waterville in Eastern Washington

at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island

at Renton

at Ocean Shores on the Washington coast.

Click here for the story of flying an RV-12 from Seattle to Texas.

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Cessna Citation at Othello, Washington
Airplane belonged to Les Schwab Tire Co.
It was carrying top exec's from HQ in Prineville, OR
They visit all their stores once a year.

AV-8 Harrier

Engineering test article for 777 wing fold mechanism.

Curtiss Robin

JFK

That's all for this time - tune back in for #16

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