Eye Candy - Six
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Photo Index Here - Airports, Airlines, Favorite Eye Candy I've posted the Answers to the Eye Candy 5 Quiz on the bottom of the #5 page. Congrats to the best guessers! Click here for #5    My friend Jim Young wanted a spot in my Eye Candy #6 page. So he flew his Cessna 421 past my living room windows.  Golfer Phil Mickelson's Falcon at Tacoma Narrows for U.S. Open He popped in and had a lunch with some of us in The Hub   F-102  Concorde  BFI  F-104 "Missile with a Man in it" The only airplane to hold both the Speed and Altitude records at the same time. It STILL holds the Altitude record!  Boeing Everett Flight Line  DAL Boeing 717 (nee McD MD-95)   C-17 - Stick instead of a Wheel   DC-6 Hurricane Hunter - Barbados   Lockheed Model 12 Electra Jr on Take-off  B-58 at Westover AFB   Spruce Goose  Bad Kitty is back!  Western DC-6B - SLC   P2V at McMinnville  The One, the Only..... Blackbird!  Douglas Round-the World Cruiser (DWC) Bob Dempster built this flying semi-replica. Three of the original four completed a Round-the-World flight from and to Seattle in 1924.  Unloading Space Shuttle Trainer from NASA Super Guppy at BFI  Ford Tri-Motor     777 MLG   B-24   We interrupt this Plane Picture Show, to bring you our Alternate Sponsor.... Oh! Did you know??? I was also into Trains, Big Time. And Boats. And Antique Cars. And.....  My favorite train picture, and of my favorite diesel Loco The ALCO PA - in A - B - B - A configuration In my favorite livery - the Santa Fe War Bonnet You see the Engineer? With all that power and beauty behind him - he's the 747 Captain of his time.  Some places have rail and aviation intersect - like ORD. This is great if you like both. Sometimes you get lucky and get a Two-Fer! LAX in the old days was like that too.    Boeing Developmental Center and KC-46s at BFI Taken while riding on BNSF.  All 737 fuselages arrive by rail from Wichita Now back to our Regular Programming  If you're as old as I am, you remember when Air Force One - well at least a SAM V.I.P. airplane - was a DC-3!!!  Geneva  Pensacola  SEA  F-105  SFO This airplane was later leased to Alaska Airlines and was lost in a CFIT accident near Juneau in September 1971.  Friend Bob Woodling sent me the above photo. It's N2969G making its first flight out of Renton.  The Navy invited me to spend some days aboard the USS Stennis (CVN-74). We flew out to the ship which was at sea conducting flight operations. We arrived and departed aboard this Grumman C-2A Greyhound. You can see it here - catching the wire. Landing on, and catapulting off the carrier were #1 and #2 on my aviation Wishlist. They did not disappoint!!!!!  After the merger, NWA's 747s went to DAL, who retired the fleet.  Took this at Detroit - in their very last days....  Shortly after I took these pictures, they were ferried to the desert and scrapped.  Painful  Mort Robinson and his Acrosport  Hurricane Hunter at Pensacola  Restored cockpit of de Havilland Comet IV-C  Flight Engineer Panel - Upper and Lower  Located at Museum of Flight facility - Paine Field, Everett If this looks a lot like a Connie panel, it's because it is! When de Havilland designed the Comet, they went to BOAC and asked for design suggestions for the cockpit. BOAC was flying Connies and liked the panel, so they said "Make it like this!"  Boeing Guppy at PAE facility   K.C. Connie  Kansas City from the Connie cabin  Beech AT-11 Kansan at Friday Harbor   Korean Air, with Lufthansa and Air China, are the only passenger 747-8 operators in the world today. Here are two of their airplanes. I took the photograph 22 Oct 2015. KAL bought 9 and
just (Aug 2024) sold 5 to USAF who will use them to replace their four
E-4B Command Post airplanes ("Doomsday Planes.") The sale is
valued at $674 million (so around $135 million per plane).
Interestingly, USAF then gave a contract valued at $13 Billion to Sierra
Nevada Corp to update the planes as E-4B replacements. Boeing was
left out of the program. Wonder why??? Have you read about
the new Air Force One Boeing program? The five airplanes will be
delivered to USAF by September 2025.
 Boeing Renton NW Pre-Flight Line  Douglas C-9 Nightingale   NASA Super Guppy landing at Boeing Field  Convair 880 - JFK  Me-262 - a flying replica built in Everett  I took this at Newark (EWR) 25 July 2009. All El Al 747s have since been scrapped.  An easy one. Guess!   OK, here's a short Quiz - three mystery flying boats. ID's, please.    Answers at Bottom of page.  SEA  SEA - two above and below   BFI  SEA  A320 at Rome, New York (KRME)  A few Commuters from Syracuse (KSYR)    A few from the Business crowd   
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