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Started by akradecki, May 22, 2009, 06:22:02 PM

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gfydad

CARGOLUX 747-8F from Thurs.

phantomphan1974

Great shots Jim.  Didn't realize that someone had the 747-8F in service?  Or still in testing?
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Code20photog

Quote from: phantomphan1974 on September 03, 2010, 07:53:48 AM
Great shots Jim.  Didn't realize that someone had the 747-8F in service?  Or still in testing?

That should be the first production 8F, and if I recall right, it's scheduled to be delivered early 2011.

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Quote from: Code20photog on September 03, 2010, 12:07:26 PM
That should be the first production 8F, and if I recall right, it's scheduled to be delivered early 2011.

Cargolux is actually scheduled to take delivery of the 747-8F late this year.

gfydad


SDAztec25

Anyone out by Plant 42 today? A friend of mine called and said that there was this black round disc looking thing doing touch and go's today. All he had was a camera phone and nothing was visible in the picture. Just wondering if anyone else saw it and if anybody knows what it was?
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gfydad

Nothing that exotic, the B-2 was pretty busy today (even flying with a NASA Hornet as chase).

SDAztec25

Quote from: gfydad on September 09, 2010, 09:18:53 PM
Nothing that exotic, the B-2 was pretty busy today (even flying with a NASA Hornet as chase).

I bet it was the B-2 they saw... Thanks for the Update...
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gfydad

From yesterday...

Realbigtaco

Quote from: gfydad on September 21, 2010, 05:18:53 AM
From yesterday...
That little guy, the Beechcraft 1900 (N27NG), is the Northrop Grumman shuttle aircraft that takes folks to work between Palmdale and San Diego.  Me and the family go to dinner at a cool little Mexican restaurant next to Montgomery Field and see him come in all the time.  He just taxis up to the terminal stops the port engine, and out they come (like a clown car), i think we counted 20 people.  Then the pilot jumps back in and the taxis out and leave.  

aero-engineer

Quote from: Realbigtaco on September 22, 2010, 06:23:05 AM
That little guy, the Beechcraft 1900 (N27NG), is the Northrop Grumman shuttle aircraft that takes folks to work between Palmdale and San Diego.  Me and the family go to dinner at a cool little Mexican restaurant next to Montgomery Field and see him come in all the time.  He just taxis up to the terminal stops the port engine, and out they come (like a clown car), i think we counted 20 people.  Then the pilot jumps back in and the taxis out and leave.  

El Indio?

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Code20photog

MA-CHETE!

Oh, wait....

Back in the old Rockwell days, they had a helo that would shuttle between some of their facilities. (They had one in Thousand Oaks oddly enough in a residential area in Lynn Ranch)

Plug this into google maps
34.197930, -118.905655

Anyways, my high school friend ended up getting a job there, and I got a chance to talk to the helo pilot. You'd think it was a cool job flying all over SoCal every day. He said it was excruciatingly boring.

The Northrop pilots must feel the same way.

kick Z tail out

Quote from: Code20photog on September 23, 2010, 01:16:37 AM
MA-CHETE!

Oh, wait....

Back in the old Rockwell days, they had a helo that would shuttle between some of their facilities. (They had one in Thousand Oaks oddly enough in a residential area in Lynn Ranch)

Plug this into google maps
34.197930, -118.905655

Anyways, my high school friend ended up getting a job there, and I got a chance to talk to the helo pilot. You'd think it was a cool job flying all over SoCal every day. He said it was excruciatingly boring.

The Northrop pilots must feel the same way.
My uncle used to ride that thing.  <laughing> He was a manager of one of the teams in the Shuttle SME division of Rocketdyne. Went to all the launches at the Cape. He's now in charge of several teams and mentioned inviting me up to Vandenburg for a launch, which I hope to take him up on one of these days.
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