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Some occasional planespotting from around the Aerospace Valley

Apparently it's #sharkweek, so throwing it back to this catch

Triton and chase

Busy day at Fox Tanker Base

Edwards F-16 and F-22 RTB June 2024

Some shots from Roc's envelope expansion flight last week

Some helitankers fighting the Holiday Fire in Rosamond yesterday

Scaled Composites ARES with a quick flight last week

NASA's DC-8 flying out of Palmdale for the very last time, plus a NASA hornet as escort

Drove out to Trona in an attempt to catch the aurora last Friday Was not expecting to see such an amazing lightshow in the Mojave Desert!

Caught the X-62 VISTA flying around late last week

U-2 silhouette at dusk

461st FLTS F-35 with rainbow contrails

Partial eclipse lens flares

Sleet in the high desert contrasting nicely on SR-71 61-7973 📍Blackbird Airpark, Palmdale CA

Cool visitor from Mugu yesterday VAW-113 Black Eagles E-2D

NASA 817 returning to Palmdale after its final science mission

T-33 under a rainbow

VFA-151 Vigilantes CAG flying into Yuma for statics

Was able to just catch a glimpse of the first flight of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 on Friday Can't wait for higher speeds

VMFT-401 F-5N in the Felon Scheme landing at Yuma

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Raptor launching a flare. March 2024

Apex Predator

Hornet carving a path through the sky

NASA Hornet spewing out rainbows this morning

N757A "Catfish" flying overhead out of Palmdale

C-146 11-3013 as DAGGER41 taking off this evening for the R-2515 with an AgilePod

First time catching a U-2 with some serious gear! 68-10331 as XRAY66 with ASARS-2 and Senior Span/Spur recovering at Palmdale Feb. 2024

A rather stripped down Block 60 F-16 recovering at Palmdale last Friday It has supports for a spin chute, but no actual canister

Top Gun Block III Super Hornet at Mojave Jan. 28, 2024

Gotta catch'em before they're gone KC-10 Extender 79-1948 as ORCA32 from Travis working the pattern at Palmdale earlier this week