My Best Aviation Pix pg 7

My Best Aviation Photos Eye Candy - Seven	Bob Bogash

Air Force One landing at Boeing Field with President on-board.
Notice anything? USAF doesn't feel it necessary to apply FAA mandated Exit markings.

First Jet Air Force One in Museum Pavilion - 707 (VC-137B)

Navy Air Museum - Pensacola

Spruce Goose - McMinnville, Oregon

Braniff - HNL

You may see this more than once....
.... because I really like it!

Apollo 11 Command Module on 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing

Kai Tak -- Hong Kong

Nordair DC-4 / C-54 CF-IQM
This may give you a feel for what it's like....
Up North - in....
Never Never Land

Toronto from an A320

Antonov AN-124 at Future of Flight - Everett

Flying my RV-12 down past the Navy Base on Whidbey....
.... an EF-18G slid alongside and took up formation
Bogey One, this is Bogey Two, how do you read?
Hope I'm not going too slow for you boys...

B-24 at Port Angeles

A rare TP-51C 2-seater

PAL DC-10-30 departing HNL Runway 8R

Grumman F9F-8 Cougar at McMinnville.....

.... I wonder if this could possibly be the same airplane
that I was photographed with way back in 1959????
Both were Ship 7 Two-seaters......

Landing SFO - Western DC-6B - Sept 1963

Westover AFB Air Show - 1960

C-124

B-58

B-47

McMinnville

Lockheed P-80
Castle AFB

Collings Foundation B-17G Nine-O-Nine

Photographed at Bremerton and Port Angeles

The original Nine-O-Nine was built in Boeing's Plant II at BFI.
She was scrapped in Kingman, Arizona.
This airplane was painted to mimic her markings.
The original Nine-O-Nine was famous for having completed a record 140 combat missions,
including 132 consecutive without aborting for mechanical reasons.

I photographed the airplane at several locations.
Here at Bremerton 20 June 2012

Sadly, the airplane was lost in a fatal accident in Hartford, Conn. in October 2019.
Seven of the thirteen people on board were killed.

Martin 404

I was the Boeing Rep at Piedmont for two years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
They flew Martin 404s, F-27s, YS-11s, and 737s

Well, while I'm running Martin's, might as well keep going.....

Newark

LaGuardia

Here's a Martin 404 that showed up on the BFI ramp.
Obviously ex-Mohawk.
Well, I'll be! Looked up N471M in my Logbook and I see that
I flew in this aircraft from Utica, NY to LaGuardia on 16 March 1965.
Pays to keep good records.

Another 404 on the Boeing Field ramp.

This 404 belonged to musician Ray Charles.
I photographed it at BFI, with Boeing Plant II in the background.
Ray lived in Seattle at the time; he later bought a Viscount.

This might be it.

I'll run the Martin 404 table with a last couple of nice ones....

The Martin originally came out as the 202; it had flat no-dihedral wings. The lack of dihedral caused flight problems so Martin cocked up the wings outboard of the engines. You can see it clearly here. The way they cocked up the wings was by inserting an adapter wedge in the front wing spar lower chord. This wedge developed cracks in service causing the loss of a wing on a Northwest airplane. The greatly redesigned airplane became the 404.

I shot this at the Airline History Museum in Kansas City.

EA-6B Prowler

The Navy had a large number of Prowlers based at Whidbey Island NAS.
On retirement, one was donated to the Museum of Flight.
The following photographs show its arrival at Boeing Field.

A last Fly By

Taxi in after last landing

Wings folded

Last Flights are always Bittersweet...

A few folks ...
to put a human side to this hardware collection....
..... some more of my many friends

Everything I am, and everything I have done,
is merely a reflection of the many fine and great people I have
known over the course of my life.
I was just along for the ride.
I'll be adding more on future webpages.

Who else but my Number One - Dot
How she put up with all my airplane shenanigans, Lord only knows!

Another patient man.
Dave Waggoner - retired Navy pilot and Paine Field Airport Manager
Took him for a ride in my RV-12. He was still smiling afterwards!

Brien Wygle - Boeing Test Pilot
Brien was like my second Father
Click here for his great story

Dan Dornseif - 737 Captain and author of many aviation books

Dick Taylor - long-time Boss and colleague
Here he is flying us over to Moses Lake in his Aerostar.
Click here for Dick's story.

Peter Michael Morton
PMM in Boeing jargon.
A Boeing friend and colleague since 1965 and fellow RPI grad.
Peter tries to keep me out of trouble - largely unsuccessfully.

Chris Longridge to whom these picture pages are dedicated.
A Real Airplane and Airline Man!

Jim Young - Airline pilot and part-time test pilot.
Here at Port Alberni testing 737 as a fire water bomber.

Steve Huemoeller - UAL Line Mechanic
Couldn't have restored the 727 and 737 without him.
Click here for his story

Here's Steve replacing a windshield wiper on E1 - the 727 Prototype
- just before her final flight.

USAF 757 at PAE
Air Force Two
C-32 in the McNamara system
C-165 in the Bob Bogash system
I can count above Ten without taking my shoes off.

C-17 at Moses Lake

737 Scimitar

Another "on-time" departure morning at Sea-Tac

SEA

Grumman Gulfstream G-I

A fine looking airplane and one of the first business airplanes designed from scratch.
Prior to that, a lot of business flying involved converted military
airplanes (like the B-26) or airliners (like the DC-3, Convair series, etc.)

Grumman was an amazing company.

At the same time they were designing and building Lunar Landing Modules, F-14 Tomcats, assorted other Navy machines, they were also designing and building Biplane Cropdusters (Agcat), aluminum truck bodies and even canoes. LeRoy Grumman, the founder and head guy, decided - so the story goes - to get into the business aircraft flying business and so the first Gulfstream was designed. It had a pair of Rolls-Royce Darts. At the critical Design Review, his design team presented him with a high wing airplane - like the Douglas DC-5, F-27, Aero Commander. At the end of the Review, Grumman announced to his somewhat stunned team "This shall be a Low Wing Aeroplane, Gentlemen, Low Wing." And it was. Nothing like being "The Boss!"

Grumman followed the G-I up with the jet powered G-II, moved the business aircraft operations from Bethpage, L.I. to Savannah, and ultimately sold the business. After a string of owners, Gulfstream is currently owned by General Dynamics.

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When I was a kid growing up, my local airport was White Plains (KHPN.) It was then, and still is, the home base for many of the NYC based Fortune 500 type corporations. So, I always got to see the latest in rich play toys - like the Gulfstream and the JetStar. Here are a few more G-I's I took about 1960-61 at HPN.

Here's a shot of the above airplane on short final for Runway 30. A 15-16 year old kid, I used to hang out in the bushes there with my camera. Watch those trees!

G-159 is the Grumman Model Number.
FWIW, Registration N737G used on my RV-12, was first used on a G-1 in 1965.

From my hiding spot in the grass!

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Couple of interesting stories about Runway 30. First, it's the runway I soloed from when I got my license in 1964. My instructor, LeRoy Eschen, gave no clue this was to be "the moment." We did a land and taxi-back, when he suddenly jumped out (Piper Colt) into the grass, slammed the door and yelled "Don't kill yourself!" I took it around the patch once, and while about 500-600 ft AGL turning Downwind to Base, a Jetstar passed on short final for Runway 30. The Tower asked me to do a 360 for spacing (no concerns about wake turbulence in those days), which I did. Might have made LeRoy nervous - 360 at 500 ft - he never mentioned it. Completed my approach, landed, and picked up LeRoy from the grass - then taxied back to Westair - the flight school. No cut shirt tails, no photos, no cheering - no nothing. Pretty routine and matter-of-fact. When I got home and told my folks I had soloed, I got the same response. They didn't appreciate the significance of a pilot's first solo. But, of course, I remember.....

Runway 30 (now Runway 29) was 4450 feet back then (HPN had 3 runways back then too.) But those trees you see in the picture, grew up over the years, became obstacles, and the FAA shortened the landing distance to 3160 ft. There was a big dispute and many lawsuits that lasted many years over cutting those trees. You see, the New York State Line was right off the end of that runway, and the trees were in Connecticut, and they wouldn't approve the tree trimming. There was even a call for pilots who had used the old full length Runway 30 to provide details, and I responded. It was about 30 years later! Looking at my Fore Flight, I see there is still a displaced threshold so I guess the trees never got trimmed!

Ask an Old Man a Question, and you get a Story........

A few more 1960 HPN G-I pictures.

Another fine looking machine was the Dassault Falcon series.
With its long nose, cockpit window config and cruciform tail,
I believe it was modeled off the JetStar.

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Goodyear Blimp at Chehalis (KCLS)

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