Bob
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Bob
Bogash
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I've
taken a lot of pictures over my lifetime - a lot! And a lot of
them (but not all) are airplane pictures. Going through my vast
aviation photo collection, and creating web pages dedicated to certain
airports, airlines, aircraft types and events, I come across some
interesting images - some are not-so-good, some are average, but some
are pretty darn good photos. Good or bad, some reflect History and a
Time gone by. I decided to collect the better ones on this page,
but while going through my collection, it became obvious I'd need many
pages. So I'll call this Page One of many pages to come. And
instead of calling them "Best" - I'll just call them Eye Candy. Aviation Eye Candy.
Hope you enjoy them; I have millions more! I've scaled them a
little bigger, so phones will definitely not work well here. I'll start with this one - my first decent picture. I took it in January 1959, and I was 14 years old. I spent my early teens in New Rochelle, NY, and hung out when I could at the nearest local airport - White Plains (KHPN.) Later, I learned to fly at that field. That January day was clear and cold and as I took up residence at one of "my spots", along the approach end to Runway 16, I was thrilled to see a large jet approaching. Airliners, other than Mohawk Convairs, didn't fly into White Plains, and most of the traffic were smaller types. The biggest were the NYANG KC-97s. But occasionally, which is why I hung out there watching and hoping, something bigger and better would come along. Pan Am had just started 707 jet service, from New York to Europe, and was doing a lot of pilot training. Runway 16 had an ILS, so I guess they used it - and here came one of their first 707s - a 120 with short fin. They made only one pass, and I got it!!! Even today, this picture stands up to the Test of Time! Not bad for 14 years old and my little Voightlander Vito-B.  I like Pan Am's old paint job, and I like this picture!  Another favorite - the Good Old Days of Dolphin bodies, Triple Tails, planes with girl's names and smokey starts with flaming exhausts. I got an email from a man who was on board this plane - just a kid immigrating with his parents and siblings. He sent me some nice pictures. (See my Comments pages.)  One of my absolute favorites - American Flyers Electra at Boeing Field. I write continuously about how easy ramp access was in the "old days." This guy was cranking up ready to depart and here I was standing in front of him with my camera. No Ground people around. Wonder what the pilot thought as we stared at each other. I look at this shot endlessly and wonder how in the hell I ever took this picture! Might as well start with Number One - i.e. N1.  Everyone's gotta have a number - and if you're the FAA, you just give yourself the ultimate tail number. N1  Here's another Number One The Dash 80 - the Number One 707 She was still "Working" when I took this one.  And yet another Number One N7001U in the Boeing Flight Center hangar. The Number One 727 - September 1963 She's now in the Museum of Flight - click here.  Great colors on the Boeing Renton Pre-flight Line  RC-121 Hurricane Hunter at Barbados   C-124 at McChord AFB  Resolute Bay  Concorde Alpha Golf was one of my many Museum acquisition projects. She took 19 years - but was clearly worth it!!!  Great picture - Nice reflection!  Air Canada Vanguard at YVR - Vancouver Engines running - Don't ask me how I got out on the ramp to shoot these pictures!   727-100 Flight Test Airplane (E2) landing Rwy 13R BFI - 1966 You can read E2's story by clicking here  Boeing Dream Lifter - just landed 16R PAE Taken from Left Seat of E1 - N7001U - we were blocking the Alpha.   Super Connie CF-NAL at Resolute Bay - 108 NM from North Magnetic Pole  Two of my Projects - side by side  An Ouwee at Montreal Dorval   Antonov AN-124   Western Electra - SLC - Salt Lake City    Yee Haw! Flying  In December 1957, I had my first airplane ride on an Eastern L-1049C Super Connie. Story Here I made the first of many subsequent in-flight photos with my new Voightlander VITO-B 35mm camera  1960 - American Electra departing LGA  C-54 - "Up North"  Northwest Electra near Billings  Boeing 707-320C  Much have I traveled through the Realms of Gold  737 with Gravel Kit Vortex Dissipater  747 The Mighty Vulcan!      Boeing Model 40 - oldest flying Boeing airplane   November 1958 - BOAC Comet IV and Pan Am 707-121 Inauguration of first trans-Atlantic jet service  NWA Electra departing SeaTac  SEA  KC-46 Tanker    RAF Argosy on Boeing Flight Line - Boeing Field (BFI)  USN C-118 at BFI  C-47 at Friday Harbor after 75th Normandy D-Day celebration   Last Rollout from Boeing Plant II - a B-17 in 2010 (story here)   Britannia - JFK  BFI  Steve Taylor and his Republic SeaBee flying past my living room windows. He let me make about a dozen water landings in this aircraft.... .... and you see, it's still in one piece!  Renton Pre-flight Line by Night  Embraer at Paine Field (PAE)  757   Side by Side - Prototypes of two of the world's greatest airplanes  John Sessions in his Waco UPF-7 (I took this from Addison Pemberton's Boeing Model 40)  From my Office window - Honolulu   Departing Honolulu (HNL)  Ketchikan - Alaska Coastal-Ellis Grumman Goose  Boeing 737 Prototype Cockpit - NASA 515  My old boss and good friend Dick Taylor in the Left Seat  My new friend and Co-pilot in the Right Seat    LaGuardia - LGA  HNL   I LOVE this picture!  Convair 580 - LGA   Boeing 247  NATO AWACS -- BFI  Boeing Model 40 and DC-2 An extraordinarily unique and historic picture  Nordair 737 at Resolute Bay - World's most Northerly Airline Airport No Jetways. No baggage carousels.   Luv this picture!  I love this one too!!!  Landing LAX  777 departing PAE  Restoring the Number One 727 (E1) for it's last flight to Boeing Field -- (Story here)  Convair 880  Pair of oversize freighters - side by side. PAE  SEA - 1966  Nordair 737-200C CF-NAQ at Nanasivik, northern Baffin Island - gravel strip   The plane that ended World War II B-29 BocksCar that dropped A-Bomb on Nagasaki 9 Aug 1945 The Japanese surrendered a week later. I took this in a storage yard before restoration and entry into Air Force Museum.   JFK  Resolute Bay - Queen of England on board  A WV-2 - Willie Victor  HNL  JFK  C-17    B-26 at Missoula This one's for Scott Carson   KC-135R - What a change from the original J-57 engines!!!  KC-46s  P-3C at Moses Lake Boeing 737 Prototype - NASA 515 Life story in a few pictures  Rollout  Pre-flight  First Flight - 9 April 1967  First Landing - Paine Field   Yikes!  Boeing 737 Prototype - Moses Lake 1997-2003 - I made 160 trips to look after her.  A second cockpit in the cabin   Installing a new brake  Cleaning the windshield for a high speed run.  A Happy Man taking care of his "Baby". "I saw 144 kts on this side - what did you see?"  Crew of Last Flight - 21 Sept 2003 First Flight Pilot Brien Wygle on the right.  Short Final for Runway 31L at Boeing Field - Last Landing  Steve Huemoeller and Bob Bogash after Last Flight of 737 Prototype Story Here I love you, Steve (R.I.P.)  In the Museum of Flight Pavilion  Brien Wygle, Bob Bogash - April 9, 2017 50th Anniversary of First Flight  Almost 60 years working on the same airplane..... She's My Girl.  Air demonstration teams  Of course, the Blue Angels - flying F-18 Hornets   Sorry, - couldn't help myself..... But, if you're an "Old Guy", you remember when they flew other airplanes!  Like the Grumman F9F-8 Cougar in 1959 - with me and my trusty camera in front.   ... or the Grumman F11F Tiger - one of the world's most beautiful airplanes  .... or the much less good-looking A4D Skyhawk   Too bad the F-14 Tomcat never made it to the Blue Angels.....  And before Fat Albert, there were other support airplanes - like this C-54 below  I took this at NAS Seattle - Sand Point Remember that? No, I don't suppose you do.... Speaking of this Navy C-54.... well, here are some more C-54s down below. For sure, you're not near old enough to remember.....  ....when the Thunderbirds were flying F-100s - but I am!  and BEFORE the F-100s, there were F-86s. Yikes, am I that old?  The RCAF  RCAF F-101 Voodoo's  Voodoo's were great airshow airplanes - with lotsa NOISE  and later - CF-5s  Douglas C-54 I never thought much about the Douglas DC-4 / C-54 - until I spent 4 years flying one. At first I made fun of it. But then I came to love her.  CF-IQM - still extant in Northern Canada. Click here to read her History    An airplane for all Seasons        OK - How about a Bad Kitty?  Another one of Grumman's Masterpieces  The F7F Tigercat - what a beautiful flying machine  Check out that profile!  USSN Boeing P-8 Pegasus  VC-10 with a Fifth Pod - JFK (used to carry spare engines)      My favorite Warbird - Curtiss P-40 Poking her nose out and sniffing the air. I'm hungerin' for some Zero's.   Time to swap the brown and blue sides!  "It's OK, Dot. We shot down 3 enemy planes and never got a scratch!" Click here for the full P-40 story.  Nordair 737 at Sondestromfjord, Greenland  B-52G Midnight Express at Museum of Flight in Seattle  USN Convair 340 - (C-131) Bet you didn't know this..... The Grumman Albatross once was ubiquitous  USCG - NAS Seattle - Sand Point  USN - Navy Whidbey  USAF - Westover AFB - Chicopee Falls, Mass.  Even the FAA! at Atlantic City  RCAF - Abbottsford, B.C. Boeing Chase Planes  One of two Lockheed T-Birds used for Boeing Chase - Click here  After the T-33's came the NorthropT-38  And before the T-33s, there was the North American / Canadair F-86  Now in the Museum of Flight in RCAF markings  Queen of the Skies    Beaver - taken from my living room window!  P-3 landing at Boeing Field (BFI)  USN F-18 landing at Moses Lake (MWH)  Mohawk Convair at JFK     Paine Field (PAE)   Montreal - YUL  Boeing Everett  Martin B-57  Gulfstream I  Canadair CL-44 - SeaTac (SEA)  Honolulu (HNL)   First Flight out of Renton  Built a nice flying model just like this when I was a kid with 36 inch wingspan "Hey Bird Dog, stay away from my quail" Long Beach    Antonov AN-124     Nordair Super Connie at Resolute Bay   C-46 Montreal (YUL)   Convair 990 - JFK  AJ DC-9 at Montego Bay  New York - LaGuardia (LGA)  737 departing dirt strip at Churchill Falls, Labrador  737 MAX grounded fleet - BFI   Kelowna, B.C.      NATO AWACS  Air Force One at BFI - Yes, 'da Prez was on-board!  Britannia at JFK  Wien Connie with Speedpak at Fairbanks   Bob Bogash at Deception Bay    The 747 is one of two (second just visible on the left) that were built for Russian airline TransAero. They went bankrupt before delivery and those two airplanes are the new Air Force One's.   DC-7C at SeaTac - Destination -- Tokyo    Aeroflot IL-62 at JFK -- the Russian VC-10  Boeing Renton - 1966  Boeing Renton - 2020 ...same spot 54 years later - still taking pictures.....   Amsterdam     LGA     Lockheed Model 10 Electra - Last Flight   Boeing 727 Prototype - sleeping for 25 years before her Last Flight  Renton  BFI  SEA  JFK PAE  HNL |
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