Palmdale Plant 42 - PMD

[gfydad]

Yup! 

[gfydad]

Some different stuff today. 

[Midnight Mover]

Great shots guys

[phantomphan1974]

Nice ones Jim.  Best one I like is the VX-30 P-3 at that angle. 

[gfydad]

Real quiet today. This approach turned into a pass. Then he just flew away. 

[akradecki]

Saw either him or one similar late yesterday afternoon climbing out over Lancaster.

[gfydad]

Yeah, went out around 3pm 

[aero-engineer]

BTW - Northrop will be celebrating the 20th Anniv of the first B-2 flight on Fri July 17.

Will they fly one?  Who knows.

Hey Jim - going to go for rolling film again?

Kevin
aero-engineer

[gfydad]

I'll be there shooting stills for the paper. 

[WARBIRD KEITH]

Jim, That last P-3 shot  is sweet!

[gfydad]

The 20th B-2 first flight anniversary will be Fri Jul 17 from 10am-11am. Non-public and no fly-by mentioned in the release.

[f4_phantom_fan]

I'm on the list, see you there.......

[akradecki]

I'll be there too...

[akradecki]

Since it is unclear whether there'll be a flyby (it may just be the static aircraft), here's the fly-by from back when the first delivery was made (sorry, forgot the date). I heard from a friend at the test squadron that the flyby was supposed to be much higher (Sen. Boxer was on stage at the time, too), and the pilot decided to come in MUCH lower, and later got in trouble for it. Note...this was shot with a 55mm lens on my old F2...no telephoto involved!

[rander]

Great Pics, Alan