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Rose Bowl images again, and I have to say seeing THIS thing going over gave me a start. Oh, I know what it is, but DAMN, doesn't it look like some sort of alien attack-craft?
I was lucky (I can't really say skillful, though KaniS keeps debating me on that) to be able to somehow track this fast-moving sucker almost from the moment it appeared all the way to when it finally flew behind some buildings in the distance over Pasadena's downtown.
Edit: A fascinating aircraft, I give you: the B2 Spirit. Someone kindly corrected me on the designation. Now stop correcting me- I fixed it. :p
I was lucky (I can't really say skillful, though KaniS keeps debating me on that) to be able to somehow track this fast-moving sucker almost from the moment it appeared all the way to when it finally flew behind some buildings in the distance over Pasadena's downtown.
Edit: A fascinating aircraft, I give you: the B2 Spirit. Someone kindly corrected me on the designation. Now stop correcting me- I fixed it. :p
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My apologies, I'm not an aircraft buff- I'll fix the tag. For some reason, I'd always heard people referring to the Blackbird as the "stealth-bomber"... to me, they both look like weird-ass concept designs for space-craft. But I'll tell you, the only reason I knew it was inthe air was when someone spied it and commented: I hardly heard it all... "stealthy" it certainly is.
So SeHT has said. I'm no military equipment buff, and, as I told him, I'd always heard others refer to the Blackbird as the "stealth-bomber"- an easy mistake to make for a non-miltary person like myself, despite most of my family being in the service. I'm Canadian, too, and this is a US military machine. Beautiful plane, though.
That would definitely be a B2.
SR-71 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird
is retired as of 1991 by the US Air Force.
SR-71 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird
is retired as of 1991 by the US Air Force.
*sticks out her long tongue at you in frustrated humour* Yeah, I know, already. Heh. The tag has been fixed and if you choose to read some of the other comments, you'll know why I made the error. Heh. But thank you for liking my image. It was a wonderful surprise that not only did I catch the thing in flight close enough to actually get details, but I tracked her all the way... ...And it was in focus. Damn. I never do that.
actually those comments happened about the same time I made mine, they weren't there when I clicked reply I left in the middle of typing my reply to answer nature.. came back and finished posting, there were like 4 other comments once the page reloaded after I clicked Add Reply, lol
Sorry hun *hugs*
Sorry hun *hugs*
Pity, though I'd love to see a Harrier in action. I did see one once, a long time ago, but it wasn't anywhere near as close to me as this bomber was. I was with a buddy out in the bush behind our airport, satellite-spotting, and we both saw this tiny silhouette of an aircraft from the side, going straight up. He didn't know what he was looking at, but I had some idea, as an airshow was in the city at the time. I told him about the show and that a British Harrier was attending and how they have VTOL. He asked what that was and I said "Vertical Take Off And Landing. That plane can go straight up, hover and all those other cool-ass things we hear the UFO's do in the air..." He was suitably impressed with the British airfoce equipment after that.
I was corrected on my original naming of the plane, remember? *chuckles* Naaah, I hung out with a lot of military kids- I grew up with military people, too. I, thankfully, had a powerful sense of individuality and never signed up. But my knowledge of modern aircraft mostly ends at the couple of the more interestingly-designed warplanes, some older stuff from the fifties (Avro Arrow, anyone?) and the odd concept-design still on the boards of the manufacturing companies (the stuff they release to the public, of course- yay, New Scientist!).
The most recent bit of neatness was a pair of fighters over Badwater, in Death Valley. They seemed to be doing some sort of maneouvers- dogfight simulations, I think. They were too far away for me to take a picture of them or even to be able to identify them as anything more than a pair of fighter planes. Loud sons-of-bitches, though. That's what had me looking. I wanted to know why the sky was growling at me!
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