The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

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120112-N-VV898-166 PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (Jan. 12, 2012) An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 conducts a captive carry flight test of an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Greg L. Davis/Released)

 

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120229-N-BA418-043 EL CENTRO, Calif. (Feb. 29, 2012) Vice Adm. Allen G. Myers, commander of U.S. Naval Air Forces (CNAF), looks down the flight line prior to flying in a practice flight demonstration over Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, Calif., with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, CNAF makes an annual visit to NAF El Cento, Calif., where the Blue Angels spend each winter preparing for the upcoming show season. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrew Johnson/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

A white leap year in Yokota
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Members from the 374th Security Forces Squadron patrol the taxiway during a winter snowstorm at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 29, 2012. Eight and a half inches of snow fell in fifteen hours, causing base leadership to call out the plows to clear the runway, taxiways and roadways. According to the 374th Operations Support Squadron weather flight, the snowfall was caused from an abundance of moisture from "Shanghai Low", the low pressure system which usually moves along the southern coastline of Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)

 

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[PhrogLoop]

120229-N-BA418-043 EL CENTRO, Calif. (Feb. 29, 2012) Vice Adm. Allen G. Myers, commander of U.S. Naval Air Forces (CNAF), looks down the flight line prior to flying in a practice flight demonstration over Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, Calif., with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, CNAF makes an annual visit to NAF El Cento, Calif., where the Blue Angels spend each winter preparing for the upcoming show season. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrew Johnson/Released)

"Hey, patchwearers...right sleeve, quit whining." -AIRBOSS

 

[navyao]

120202-N-VV898-026 PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (Feb. 02, 2012) A P-8A Poseidon assigned to the Bureau of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 replicates the characteristics of an MK-54 torpedo. (U.S. Navy photo by Greg L. Davis/Released)

120127-N-VV898-014 PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (Jan. 27, 2012) A P-8A Poseidon assigned to the Bureau of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 flies over the Chesapeake Bay. VX-20 is part of Naval Test Wing Atlantic. (U.S. Navy photo by Greg L. Davis/Released)

 

[navyao]

Still looks weird with the bomb bay in the aft section of the jet but regardless cool looking jet. Can't wait to see the inside of one!

 

[Gatordev]

120202-N-VV898-026 PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (Feb. 02, 2012) A P-8A Poseidon assigned to the Bureau of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 replicates the characteristics of an MK-54 torpedo. (U.S. Navy photo by Greg L. Davis/Released)

Seriously, how high are they? Are they replicating being the "9:30 to Tampa?" Talk about "ballistic error." Who am I kidding. The TDP is all smoke and mirrors, anyway.

 

[Brett327]

Yeah, look at that thing pitch up. Curious what the employment parameters might be.

 

[scoolbubba]

That thing is just going to be a buoy truck for the Romeos anyways. Why bother with a bomb bay?

 

[lowflier03]

I thought someone was talking about how low the P-8 would be doing it's ASW thing from? Having dealt with P-3's at 500'+ I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the same waterspace as a P-8 dropping from that high.... Yikes

 

[MasterBates]

So THAT is how Southwest loses my luggage. Bomb Bay Luggage. Genius.

 

[Recovering LSO]

it looks like it just took a shit....

 

[flaps]

hi resoloution ww2 home front photos

http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914

 

[Gatordev]

Damn, those pictures are clear. Here's something forwarded to me by my dad today. Pretty neat.

Hidden in Plain View During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.

Before...

After..

The person that provided these pictures said she got an interesting story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this. She says that to this day, these are the first pictures of it she's seen.

Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching it all be set up like a movie studio production. They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead.

�I lived in North Long Beach during World War II, I was 13 years old. (1940) The Long Beach airport was nearLakewood, CA. There was a large Boeing Plant there. If you would drive down Carson St. going south you could drive under the camouflage netting.� Ed Pollard

I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif. I have been under this net and have seen it from the air. During preflight training I rode a bus under the net and was very surprised as I didn't know it was there. It was strong enough to walk on and they hired people to ride bicycles and move around as if they lived there to make it look authentic. Warren Holmgreen Jr

Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing!