USS Texas at Sea
#otd USS Texas BB-35 at sea, in 36-54N, 75-22W, on 21 December 1943. #usstexas #bb35 #wwii #navalsafari #aviationsafari...
Turkey’s 1st Flight
#otd Lifting off for its first flight is Grumman's F-14, the ten minute flight took place 21 December 1970 at Grumman's Calverton Air...
XTB3F-1S 90506
#otd Grumman #otd Grumman XTB3F-1S 90506 at NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 21 December 1949. #paxriver #xtb3f #grumman #flynavy...
Catching Hubble
#otd 21 December 1999 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being berthed in Orbiter Discovery's OV-103 bay soon after capture. #nasa...
To the moon!
#otd The third Saturn V launch vehicle (SA-503) for the Apollo 8 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center...
Teathered Takeoff
Follow up to our previous post, here is how the QF-106 was towed aloft. Eclipse project QF-106 and C-141A takeoff on first tethered...
Peeling the paint off!
Did you know the XB-70 flew so fast it stripped paint off the aircraft? #xb70 #usaf #supersonicbomber #aviationsafari...
QF-106 take off
#otd Eclipse project closeup of QF-106 under tow on takeoff on first flight December 20, 1997. #nasa #f106 #qf106 #aviationsafari...
VERTREP
A MH-60S of HSC-4 and a EC225 Super Puma transport cargo between USS Carl Vinson CVN-70 and USNS Richard E. Byrd T-AKE-4 during vertrep,...
Caption?
Caption? #ch47 #armyaviation #aviationsafari #aviationpreservation #boneyardsafari #aviationadventures
