Palmdale Plant 42 - PMD

[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?

[Code20photog]

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.

[phantomphan1974]

Thanks Ken!

[Dragonskiss]

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]

One from today...

[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?

[gfydad]

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

[SDAztec25]

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...

[gfydad]

From yesterday...

[Realbigtaco]

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]

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?

Kevin
aero-engineer

[Realbigtaco]

El Indio?

Kevin
aero-engineer

Casa Machado

[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]

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.  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.