Chris Good's Airplane Page
The first section of pictures and videos have come from various places on
the Internet.
The second section of pictures are shots I have taken at
museums, air shows, and bases in the
US and Europe.
Canon AFB 1986 Indian Springs AFAF Air Show 1986 Nellis AFB Air Show 1997 Indian Springs AFAF 2001 USAFA 1987 & 1988 Shadow TUAV 2001 - 2012 Davis-Monthan AFB Air Show 2002 Redstone Arsenal 2009 & 2012 Dyess AFB 2012 MCAS Yuma 2012 & 2015 MCAS Miramar Air Show 2012 Blackstone Army Airfield 2016 Pima Museum 2002 Pima Museum 2009 Hill Aerospace Museum 2009 Blue Angles 2011 Pax River Museum 2011 MCAS Yuma Air Show 2013 USAFA 2013 MCAS Yuma Air Show 2017 WSMR Museum 2019 Sweden AF Museum 2019 Piper Museum 2020 NASM, Washington D.C. Hill Aerospace Museum 2021 National WWII Museum 2022 Commemorative Air Force Museum 2023
From
the Internet... These are photos of a pair of F/A-18 Hornets that made a head on pass just a bit too close, resulting in a mid-air collision. Somehow the pilots managed to recover them back to base. One Hornet got home with part of the left wing and left vertical fin and rudder missing, while the other jet is missing everything forward of the cockpit pressure bulkhead and is a flying convertible because the canopy is shattered too. Look at photo 3; notice the radome, radar and all of the avionics equipment, everything, in front is gone. This created several problems for the pilot: aerodynamics, eventual loss of hydraulics due to loss of fluid, navigation, and probably the most amazing, as the pieces fell away, some debris had to be ingested by the engines (F.O.D.) and he still was able to bring it home! Here is a great article that has one of the pilots describe what happened and how they saved the aircraft. |
F-14 Tomcat ragtop. The pilot managed to land the aircraft after the rear-seat passenger punched out by accident. | |
Su-27 crashing during a airshow in the Ukraine. This was actually taken while the aircraft was cart-wheeling from right to left through the frame. Here is the movie of the crash. | |
I have seen this photo with different captions, but received this unedited version from someone with first hand knowledge; he was on the deck when the photo was taken. Full details are at http://www.aerofiles.com/f14flyby.html Thanks to Chris Hann for the photo. | |
While this plane may have been going faster than the speed of sound, it is not a picture of the F-18 suddenly "breaking" the sound-barrier. Imagine a cone with the nose of the aircraft at the tip of the cone, with the cone getting larger going backwards. The boom heard when a plane is going faster than the speed of sound is actually the overpressure created by the plane traveling through the air. That "boom" sound hits you as the overpressure "cone" edge hits you. The plane may have been going faster than Mach 1 for quite a while - that sound "cone" hits you and you hear the "boom." There is a big difference in the air pressure from just in front of this cone to what is behind the cone. That sudden difference allows water in the air to condense out of its gas state. | |
Here is a video of an F-14 passing an aircraft carrier showing the same thing. The next time you fly in an airliner, watch the wingtips. If you fly through an area of high humidity, you will see the water condensing out of the air, usually at the wingtips, where there are high pressure differences caused by the wingtip vortices. High speed fighter jets create the required pressure differences easier than airlines, which don't travel quite fast enough. | |
B-1B bomber doing the same thing. | |
F-14 passing between two ships low and fast. There is a sonic boom as the plane passes by, but there is not enough moisture in the air to condense out. | |
Two F-15's making a very low pass. | |
CH-47 Chinook making pickups off a roof in Afghanistan. | |
The newest stealth aircraft? | |
The pilot had this to contend with when he returned to his plane. |
I have taken all the pictures from here down. Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photo.
Canon Air Force Base, New Mexico, 1986
A-4 Skyhawk |
AV-8B Harrier II |
AV-8B Harrier II |
F-111 Aardvark |
F-111 Aardvark |
F-111 Aardvark |
F-111 Aardvark - Bomb-bay |
Gathering of the Eagles, Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, 1986
B-17 Flying Fortress |
B-25 Mitchell |
F-4U Corsair |
P-38 Lightning |
P-51D Mustang |
Dayton Air Show, Ohio, 1991 & 1992
F-14 Tomcat 1991 |
MiG-29 Fulcrum 1992 |
OV-1 Mohawk 1991 |
PZL-104 Wilga 1991 |
50th Anniversary of the Air Force Air Show, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, 1997
C-121 Constellation |
C-121 Constellation |
C-17 Globemaster III |
C-17 Globemaster III |
C-17 Globemaster III |
C-17 Globemaster III |
C-46 Commando |
C-46 Commando |
KC-10A Extender |
Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, 2001
F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds |
F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds |
F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds |
Predator UAV |
Predator UAV |
Shadow 200 TUAV, Ft Huachuca & Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, 2001 - 2012
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Air Show, Arizona, 27 April 2002
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 2009 & 2012
Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, 2012
B-1B Bone |
B-1B Bone |
B-1B Bone |
C-130 Hercules |
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, 2012 & 2015
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show, San Diego, California, 14 October 2012
Blackstone Army Airfield, Virginia, 2016
V-22 Osprey |
V-22 Osprey |
V-22 Osprey |
V-22 Osprey |
Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, January 2002
Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, July 2009
Hill Air Force Base Aerospace Museum (+ Antelope Island & SLC, Utah), 6 December 2009
Doolittle Raiders' Signatures
F/A-18 Hornet, OV-10 Bronco
Blue Angels, El Centro, California, 29 January 2011
Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, Maryland, 15 September 2011
MCAS Yuma Air Show, Yuma, Arizona, 9 March 2013
United States Air Force Academy, December 2013
MCAS Yuma Twilight Air Show, Yuma, Arizona, 17 March 2017
White Sands Missile Range Museum, New Mexico, 1 May 2019
Swedish Air Force Museum, Linkoping, Sweden, 5 September 2019
Piper Museum, Wings Over Piper RC Fly-In, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, 1 August 2020
National Air & Space Museum, Washington D.C. - many visits
Hill Air Force Base Aerospace Museum, Utah, 30 October
2021
National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, 29 October 2022
Commemorative Air Force Museum, Mesa, Arizona, 18 February 2023