photo share

Scanned a few pictures I took over the years.....just sharing the last couple of projects I worked with in the USAF. The SR-71 was a detachment from Beale temporarily stationed at Edwards AFB where I was at the time......like this website....some intrigue....some bogus stuff, but cool nevertheless..!!!!!!!!!....hree's the link:

pg.photos.yahoo.com...@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=/4d38&_=ph&.tok=phYA_oBBjzG1HgTu

[edit on 25-8-2004 by age_ranger]

Nice set of Pics... Thanks for posting the link

thanks for the link i thoroughly enjoyed it

Glad they're a hit........I am trying to get alot of them scanned....I have some good pictures I've snapped up and down flightlines during my enlistment. Look forward to finding out what some of them are.....some I still don't know.........but never did get the elusive C-130 with the forward firing rockets for short landings......it was all silver and stored in a classified hanger. Only came out at night....really hard to get a pic

WOW! that is really a neat collection. I'm extremely impressed that you were there to take all those photos. Were you in an SR-71 detachment (if I understood right)? I read a book by a pilot of the SR-71; it was pretty good even though he couldn't reveal anything classified.

Love those pics, thanks for sharing... Love the kid, he's adorable!
Your gas mask / diaper pic gave me a good chuckle... I wish I had one of those when I went to visit my sister's twin baby boys... Boy did they stink!

I always wanted to be a fighter pilot, but my math sucked... You think they give preferential treatment to the mathematically disenfranchised???

Some nice pics.

Did that F/A-18 try new landing technique?

Did that F/A-18 try new landing technique?

Yeah, what's up with that?

isn't the first pic a thing out of a film?

You had some pretty cool B-2 Pics.

But the downside is there small, Unusable for desktop wallpaper.

Can you post them is a higher resolution?

Some of the pics are scans from pictures I took........The SR-71 was the last commissioned SR-71 still flying in the USAF inventory. The night we took that photo they anchored down the bird and did a full twin afterburner run on it. Then, shut it down and the SR-71 program ....... Historic night and my son was the last civilian to sit in an active SR-71.....it was awesome. I was'nt part of the SR det. though.....I was the swing shift supervisor for ground support equipment operations. I have a ton of pictures left to scan......some aircraft never flew...others were NASA birds and some just came out of nowhere..........oh, and alot owere test birds....If you look at the pics again you'll see the F/A-18F. it's 25% bigger than the original F-18. They were doing stress testing that day. Also got to see the flyoff for the JSF program.....that was the last project I got to work with before I got out of the USAF. I will try to get all the pics scanned, but 3 kids and a full time job keep me real busy. Check back periodically on my site. Thanks for the compliments. [email protected]

Originally posted by DarkSide
isn't the first pic a thing out of a film?

You are correct, it was for a movie called "Stealth" (great imagination ay). starred the chick from 7th Heaven i think.

The plane has been discussed previously on this board.