My Best Aviation Pix pg 4

My Best Aviation Photos - Eye Candy Four	Bob Bogash

Might as well start with Number One - the Dash 80 with her Pinocchio Nose on the BFI Flight Line

and some brand new KC-135s outside the Renton factory doors - 1963.

787 #3 at the Museum of Flight

NW Cargo Area - Miami International

P-47

APSA Convair 990 at LAX

Good one here!
Front to back:
Indian Air Force P-8; NA001 - 757 Prototype (with F-22 wings); USN P-8;
Japan Air Force 767 AWACS; Turkish Air Force 737 Wedgetail

B-47

Gweduck

Piper L-4 Grasshopper at Bremerton (KPWT)

AJ DC-9 at Montego Bay

MIG-17

Here comes Peter Cottontail - hopping down the Bunny Trail
Sadly - didn't see any Playboy Bunnies that day....

DC-2

Spitfire

Stinson SM-8A at Port Townsend

A JATO Equipped Caribair Convair in San Juan

Boeing North Ramp - BFI

Mustangs!

Bonanza DC-9 at BFI - Plant II in background

USAF C-45 (Beech 18) at Port Townsend

Douglas B-23 Dragon
A limited production run airplane loosely based on the DC-3 airframe.
Bomber later converted into Executive transport.

Owned by my pal Jeff Akridge in Moses Lake

Cockpit

Lockheed R6V Constitution at Las Vegas
Largest fixed-wing aircraft ever operated by the U.S. Navy
Tail Height = 50 feet.
Two built - first flight 9 Nov 1946
Amazing aircraft - story here

Waco UPF-7

John Sessions flying his beauty
I took this from the Boeing Model 40

BA 146 Water Bomber at Moses Lake

Guppy at Boeing Field
This one's for Fred Austin

Bogies - 10 o'clock

My wife and I would go up to the San Juan Islands for lunch every week.
We'd fly right past the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station
Going to the San Juans from our place would take two days, 4 ferry rides, and cost well over $200
In our little plane from Port Townsend it would take 20 minutes and a gallon of car gas.

Of course, we'd see the Whidbey EF-18G Growlers all around.
It was all Class C Airspace controlled by radar from the NAS.
Now - here comes a couple figuring I'm their target.

Long past time for me to chase these boys down and let 'em know what I think about that!
"OK, guys, you remember me? In that little red and white plane..."

Kai Tak

Two of my favorite airports in the whole world:
Boeing Field and Kai Tak (Hong Kong)
I've burned more rolls of film in those two places than you can imagine.
And great videos - from the ground AND making "that" Approach too!
Sadly, Kai Tak is no more - now closed

One of three flight test Mitsubishi Regional Jets
They were built and flight tested but the Program was cancelled and all three were scrapped.
Eleven were built overall. What a shame....

Here's a second of the Flight Test airplanes

Boeing builds planes -- so they can store them. Paine Field.

1968 and Sabena still operating DC-3s.
My Seaboard 707 in the background. I was ramp wandering with camera.

Boeing Flight Line - Boeing Field

Philadelphia

MD-11

Port Townsend

Red Dodge C-130 at Montreal

Yes - a DLH DC-8 An Historic aircraft!
This is the very first DC-8. Made it's first flight 30 May 1958.
Was then used as flight test airplane being converted into several different DC-8 versions.
Finally, it was used as a interim lease airplane to assorted airlines
until finally, sadly, scrapped at Marana Arizona in 1993.
Thanks to Mitch Grayson for the Heads-Up.

Jim Piper's Carbon Cub

B-24

Lockheed Model 12 Electra Jr.
Whole web page coming on this one - an historic airplane

Avianca 720B - JFK

Hockey Stick Fans

I hate to say this, but there are actually people out there who like Eastern's Hockey Stick paint job.
And they write me saying so. And even sign their names.
And ask for more.

I think it's uglier than sin, but in order to keep them happy, I'll give them a big dose of Hockey Stick Heaven.
No more requests, please. Some people really have NO taste.

Now tell me this ugly hockey stick paint job is better than this:

or this.......

I rest my case....