Here are some really great pictures of the Edwards AFB Air Show - great work by Bernard Zee.
Enjoy!!
BT: Jimmy T sends.
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Vs-31 CAG Aircraft 700 is shot down the cat of the USS GW Washington, circa 2006. VS-31's final deployment before being decommissioned was onboard the USS Washington. The NG on the tail is the give away. Airwings attached to West coast aircraft Carriers are assigned the lead nemonic of "N" while those on the Atlantic are given "A". The 700 or double nuts aircraft in each aircraft is typically given special paint over and above that customary for a squadron aircraft and is usually offered to the Air Wing Commander. This aircraft is sporting an AWW-13 Weapons Data Link pod on that starboard wing pylon. This pod us used to relay video from an inflight missile (Maverick or SLAM-ER) or controls from the aircraft to the missile. There is an actual joystick at the Co-Pilot station that allows the operator at that station to actually fly the missle while it is in flight.
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Vs-31 CAG Aircraft 700 is shot down the cat of the USS GW Washington, circa 2006. VS-31's final deployment before being decommissioned was onboard the USS Washington. The NG on the tail is the give away. Airwings attached to West coast aircraft Carriers are assigned the lead nemonic of "N" while those on the Atlantic are given "A". The 700 or double nuts aircraft in each aircraft is typically given special paint over and above that customary for a squadron aircraft and is usually offered to the Air Wing Commander. This aircraft is sporting an AWW-13 Weapons Data Link pod on that starboard wing pylon. This pod us used to relay video from an inflight missile (Maverick or SLAM-ER) or controls from the aircraft to the missile. There is an actual joystick at the Co-Pilot station that allows the operator at that station to actually fly the missle while it is in flight.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night Only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their part."
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." by Frederic Bastiat
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2 comments:
Zee does excellent work; Lex has linked him in the past.
Apropos of not much... I lived on EAFB for a short time before base housing became available at Boron AFS where I was stationed. One of the better things about being stationed out in the Mojave was seeing all those unusual birds coming in and out of Edwards. And although I was there well past EAFB's "glory days"... there were enough oddities to keep me amused. And amazed.
Buck, I would have loved to work there, I have visited several times but never for very long. I love the desert too so working there would have been great for me.
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