Palmdale Plant 42 - PMD

[gfydad]

Didn't get out to shoot until this afternoon but caught this ED T-38.
Look along the shadow line of the fuselage forward of the inlet and you'll see an interesting series of dents.  

[phantomphan1974]

Interesting...

[Josh]

Didn't get out to shoot until this afternoon but caught this ED T-38.
Look along the shadow line of the fuselage forward of the inlet and you'll see an interesting series of dents.  

Probably one of those birds that need a kick-start. 

[rander]

Probably one of those birds that need a kick-start. 

Probally not to far from the truth, May possibly been put there by a maintainer when he got pissed off at the plane when some maintenance he was doing was not going well. I know a couple of tomcats I personally did that to. The dents in the forward area of the pic are most likely on a rivited on piece of aircraft skin and is not removable at squadron level maintenance.

[f4_phantom_fan]

Quite a flurry of activity for a Monday......light was horrible, but here's a few that I caught. B-2 did *SIX* touch n go's!  There were also two Channel Island C-130Js and a Travis C-17.

[f4_phantom_fan]

Today's catch. I didnt get there in time to shoot the USN E-6 Mercury that Jim caught, but DID get to see TWO Beale U-2s, and a C-130 with the tail marking "The Rock" (Littlerock, Ark I believe). Went for the prop circle on the Herc.......1/80th, 75-300mm lens.

[gfydad]

Great catches brian! 

Here are the three I got before I had to leave for Burbank today...

E-6 Mercury
ED C-17
DY B-1B

[f4_phantom_fan]

Today's catches........the E-6 was back (Bu#162782, and from Tinker or Offut, fyi) and did about 10 touch n gos before leaving to the east. It came back later in the great late afternoon light, as did a B-52 that I saw circling Edwards earlier in the day. There was also a Maryland ANG C-130 out as well.

[f4_phantom_fan]

Wow, what a day Jim and I had at Palmdale today - here what was caught:
C-130, B-1 (No Antidote), C-17 (ED), USMC King Air(?), Sofia & NASA F-18 chase, Northrop Grumman Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman Beech, a VIP USAF transport (DC-8 or DC-9-like a/c), and not one, NOT TWO, BUT THREE U-2s!!! The Warner Robbins black bird, a bare metal aircraft, and a NASA ER-2 just after it got dark, came by and did around 10 touch n gos.

[WARBIRD KEITH]

Wow, what a day Jim and I had at Palmdale today - here what was caught:
C-130, B-1 (No Antidote), C-17 (ED), USMC King Air(?), Sofia & NASA F-18 chase, Northrop Grumman Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman Beech, a VIP USAF transport (DC-8 or DC-9-like a/c), and not one, NOT TWO, BUT THREE U-2s!!! The Warner Robbins black bird, a bare metal aircraft, and a NASA ER-2 just after it got dark, came by and did around 10 touch n gos.

:oThats cool!  that VC-9C /dc9 took off from LAX today, I guess heading up to Palmdale,Dragonskiss got a got shot of it today!

[f4_phantom_fan]

Here are some of mine from today. All those planes came within about a 4.5 hr time frame, too. The Marine a/c turned out to be a UC-12B.

[gfydad]

It was sure rockin' today! Glad you got that ER-2. Wayyyy too dark for me even at ISO/3200 to even get much done.

Got home later than I figure from work so will post mine up tomorrow.

Great shots Brian!  

[gfydad]

OK, It's "tomorrow" so here's the first one...

[NikonGuy]

[gfydad]

Thanks! It was really a "target rich" environment.