Saker Aircraft S-1 Personal F-15

Max speed : Mach 1.1

High Speed Cruise : Mach 0.99

Compressor Stall From Two Angles

Feeling Lost ?

This should help you get back on course.

Boarding Air France F-HPJC LAX-CDG A380

We've sent one of our reporters to Paris on an Air France A380 just so we could bring you today's blog post.

This is F-HPJC operating today as Air France 65 Super .

Gate 134 with bridges to both levels.

Boarding area inside the Bradley Terminal.

Business Class on the upper deck. 

The A380 has a camera on the tail fin that can be accessed by passengers. This is a picture of our reporter's touch screen showing the plane and the new terminal.    

Runway 32 Threshold Markings

Photo location : Runway 32

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Model Rocketry Tip : If you use the largest possible engine, there is a good chance you'll never see that launch vehicle ever again.

This one might still be in orbit.

Here's more  ...

1988 Ferrari 328 GTS

At the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. In the early days of Airplane Life, we couldn't afford to hire our own models, so we borrowed them from other photographers.

The "328" designation refers to the car's 3.2 L engine with 8 cylinders, while the "GTS" stands for Gran Tourismo Spyder with it's targa top. Shown in a rare color - that's # 306/C - Prugna Metallic Bordeau.

China Southern Airbus A380-841 Landing Los Angeles LAX

Inbound from Guangzhou Baiyun International. B-6139; formerly F-WWAR. Photograph by LBBC.

Golden West Airlines Dash-7 LAX 1982

Golden West was once the largest commuter airline in California.

Pan Am is represented by a 747, DC-10, and TriStar. Also an Eastern 727, and a Pacific Express One-Eleven.

Kiki Dee - 1974

Kiki had a decent set of pipes. And an incredible ability to remember complex lyrics.

                                                                                     

Here's Kiki as a cockpit guest in a British Airways Concorde.

Lockheed Stratoliner Concept

The Lockheed Stratoliner is designed to be the next step in passenger flight, flying higher and further than its predecessors.

We thank Designer William Brown and Tuvie.com for allowing Airplane Life the use of these these images and their description. 

Alaska Airlines "Spirit of the Islands" N560AS

This 737-890 (c/n 35179, l/n 2072) made it's debut in Honolulu recently. Photo by Aaska Airlines. 

Canadair T-33A-N Silver Star 3 (CL-30) N933GC Chino Airshow 2013

"Show Pass." Acemaker cn T33-306. Photo by Long Beach Bureau Chief.

Packard Bentley - "Mavis" Special 138

Turn up the volume, it's a little hard to hear.

This is a dual port V-12 with 2,563 cubic inches. It has 1,500 HP.

                                                       

Costco ring

I'd rather have a Mooney.

Helicopter Flower Drop

Flowers from a helicopter.
      

Happy Memorial Day 2013

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

- John F. Kennedy
  Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning ll Vertical Takeoff First Time

Try this with your P-38.
                     

Dream Girl A-26C Douglas Invader Bomber Nose Art

National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio. Serial # 44-35733 Construction # 29012.

737 In-Flight Thrust Reverse Deploy

No details.

USAF C-40B Clipper 01-0015 737-7DM

"Special Missions Hawaii" support aircraft for the US Pacific Command. 65th Airlift Squadron, 15th Airlift Wing, Hickam AFB. Was using callsign: "Mango Five-Five."

Airbus A350 XWB Out of the Paint Shop

Now we know what it really looks like.
       

America West N907AW Phoenix Suns Boeing 757 Engine Fire

Somewhere over someplace.

Cartier 9436 MC Mechanism Exploded

This watch uses a tourbillon to counteract the effect of gravity on the mechanism.

Best viewed full screen. The video has no sound.
        

727 Hotel Room - Hotel Costa Verde

Here's just where you want to go.

The room rents for between $250 and $750/night.

Plus you have to get to Costa Rica first, wherever that is. It might be in California.

Thank you to Hotel Costa Verde for allowing use of their pictures.

Russian Kalinin Калинін K-7 Fighter Chino Airshow

Often outmaneuvered but never outgunned in a dogfight.

Canadian Vickers PBY-5A Canso Catalina N427CV

Chino Airshow.

Photo by LBBC.

Grumman F3F-2 N20FG

Chino Airshow.

Photo by LBBC.

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Super Privateer N2871G

Chino Airshow.

Photo by LBBC.

Name That Aircraft - Quiz #634

Everyone knows what you think it is, but our audience expects detailed information. Good Luck!

Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk N80FR Chino

A Very Rare airplane at the Chino Airshow. s/n 41-13357.

If you look carefully, you can see the reflection of the runway and flightline.

Photo by LBBC.

Royal Enfield For Sale - Chino Airshow

Sales force was in full military regalia ...

Royal Enfield's psychographic market research has identified their target market as 48-56 year old males who like busty women with tattoos and high heels.

Single-cylinder 499cc thumper. 

Photos by LBBC. 

"Thoughts of Midnite" Lockheed P-38L Lightning NL38TF Bomber Nose Art

Powered by two Allison V-1710 V-12's.

Chino Airshow 2013 by our Long Beach Bureau Chief.

Green Monster #5 Dragster

Powered by an Allison V-1710 V-12.

Chino Airshow 2013 by our Long Beach Bureau Chief.

VC-9C 73-1682 Air Force Two at KLUF

Rotten luck to have Tri-X in the Minolta when Vice President Quayle flew into Luke.

Consolidated B-24D Liberator "Strawberry Bitch" Bomber Nose Art

They say that this aircraft is "haunted." Someone walks around inside. Eerie voices and sounds. Machine guns shake. And it once attacked a janitor.

National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Convair B-58 Hustler at Pima

Kodachrome era. One of the better telephoto angles for the photogenic Hustler.

World's Most Dangerous Airspace

Lucky we made it.

'Probably should have used a larger aircraft for this leg.