Aircraft pics

[wheelhop]

This is awful. I live near where this plane flew and I used to love seeing it overhead every once in a while.

[m22mike]

More on the Goodyear blimp. It was one of several that are leased to Goodyear by the Lightship group, unlike the three company owned airships that operate in the United States and are old school, old tech blimps.

Goodyear Blimp Crash

[PeteLeathersac]

Anyone seen this crane toppling over footage, arm too extended for the weight o' the bird?.
Glad nobody was hurt but what a shame!.

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~ Pete

http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/...en-ca-infopane

[427TJ]

If that was the A-4 crane mishap at the former NAS Alameda the jet was repaired and is back up on its pylon. I was just there last week on a layover and the old bird looks great.

[rich p]

Pretty cool plane!!

[SS427]

Received this from a friend this morning.

Rick,
The big day is almost here. Mike Glenn of the A-3 Association and his crew were on hand for the moving our TA-3B, BuNo 144867 from where it has been for the last eight months, the USS Midways restoration facility on North Island, awaiting an opportunity lift via one of our Nation's finest, the USS Bon Homme Richard (the BHR is the new one).

The TA-3B Skywarrior was loaded on the BHR this morning, February 8, 2012 and will set sail from Pier 8 Naval Station San Diego on the morning of February 14 for Naval Station Pearl Harbor, now known as Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam or JBPHH. The BHR will tie up at Kilo Pier in Pearl Harbor and unload our Whale on 21 February 2012. To make sure the Whale gets to Hawaii all in one piece, I will be accompanying it to insure its safe voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean....Damn I have a fun job!

In October 1968 our TA-3B was bailed to first Hughes for F-14 avionics and eventually ending its flying career as a flying test bed for B-2A Spirit Stealth Bomber avionics and radar. Its last flight was in June of last year when it was ferries from Van Nuys Airport to North Island NAS, San Diego, CA. Once the Whale is on Ford Island we will proceed to remove the all of the none standard pieces and parts and it will revert to what she looked like in operational service with VAH-123 then located at NAS Whidbey Island, WA, my old stomping grounds.

More to come as we set sail and when we prep the Whale to be lifted off of the BHR and as it is demoded back to a standard TA-3B configuration.

Cheers from Waikiki............Jim

[Xplantdad]

Neat!

And Rich P...that certainly looks like Chandler AZ...on December 29th, 2007 [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[SS427]

If it is Chandler, whose P51 is that? I do not recognize it.

[Steven J]

Pretty neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=SDbQ5xvsrIU

[David Billingsley]

Wow, unbelieveable, would be in the top 10 of the coolest things I have ever seen on the internet !