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A-12 06933 in Southern California.

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SR-71 17975 March Field California

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SR-71A 17976, Dayton Ohio main display hanger. Sorry no better picture, the hanger was rather dark.

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AF-12A 06935, Dayton Ohio in R&D hanger.

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Goblin mini jet fighter, carried by a bomber! R&D hanger, Ohio

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X-24B lifting body, R&D hanger Ohio

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B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, Ohio (This was a test aircraft built without engines for airframe stress testing)

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F-117A stealth fighter, main hanger, Ohio (second built, fully functional, used for testing)

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X-15, R&D hanger, Ohio.

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X-1B, R&D hanger, Ohio.

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XB-70,  R&D hanger, Ohio

wow I see also the Grumman X-29 Straycat and the General Dynamic F-16 XL too on those XB-70 pics :P

Great stuff Gary, I suppose Ohio wasn't a far drive for you :) How was the weather, nice and sunny? hehe I hope it was, rainy hollidays can be a bumber sometimes.

That A12 is also a strange one, were the bomb bays opened or closed?

What I do know that the bomb bays are in the neck area of the plane about three of them, dunno why three, i suppose there was no room for a fourth one.

Anyway my first model plane was from Monogram and indeed it was a Lockheed SR-71 A Blackbird at scale 1/72 :)

wrote on 08.12.04 at 03:24:00:

wow I see also the Grumman X-29 Straycat and the General Dynamic F-16 XL too on those XB-70 pics :P

There was planes on top of planes there, if you hit the air force ohio website they have most of them listed. I have a great deal stored on the hard drive, perhaps I'll zip the raw files up and make them available if you like.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an.htm


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Great stuff Gary, I suppose Ohio wasn't a far drive for you :) How was the weather, nice and sunny?

Actually 808 miles one way with lots of high speed turbocharged driving ;-)

Was ok, went to attend a racing event at a dragstrip in Ohio and then headed to see the planes the next day.


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That A12 is also a strange one, were the bomb bays opened or closed?

The YF-12A was armed with 3 Hughes missles, bays were closed.

wrote on 08.12.04 at 03:47:24:

There was planes on top of planes there, if you hit the air force ohio website they have most of them listed. I have a great deal stored on the hard drive, perhaps I'll zip the raw files up and make them available if you like. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an.htm Actually 808 miles one way with lots of high speed turbocharged driving ;-) Was ok, went to attend a racing event at a dragstrip in Ohio and then headed to see the planes the next day. The YF-12A was armed with 3 Hughes missles, bays were closed.

wow that would be great  if you could zip the raw files up and make them available for my I would adore that very much :P

that a-12 in san diego is 4 blocks from my apartment, i love going over there  ::)  ::)

It looks like it's gate guarding a cinema complex or something? :>

Cool pics, thanks for those.  I particularly like the way it's nigh on impossible to get a picture of anything else in that hangar without the Valkyrie being there somewhere *grin*

A-12 Is that the spy plane that sends out the false radar signals to make it look like there's more planes in the sky?

Like the SR-71 17975.. Saw it @ discovery channel..

Wow, I was expecting a set of 3DFX cards and girls dressed in promotional 3DFX flags  ;D  ;)  ::)