Unusual (and neat) Heritage Flight

[Tim Adams]

I'd love to see a P-38 with the F-35.

I have seen it on the ground. Glacier Girl was at Lockeed a couple of months ago. Both planes were together on the ramp. Someone took a shot looking down on them. I tell you what, the F-35 is one fat, and ugly plane.

[kenlyco]

You think the F-35 is fat and ugly you would of loved the Boeing version

[Karpis]

Didn't I read a few years back about a B-17 flying with three C-130s?

[Tim Adams]

You think the F-35 is fat and ugly you would of loved the Boeing version

Wow, that is just about the ugliest thing I've seen that can actually fly.

[kenlyco]

We had a name for it at Pratt "THE SAILOR INHALER"

[richkolasa]

Here's a few airshow formations from my site, the first being Snort and John Ellis doing a formation take-off at Oshkosh:

http://www.crystalgraphix.com/archives/CGAARC-229.jpg

http://www.crystalgraphix.com/archives/CGAARC-234.jpg

http://www.crystalgraphix.com/archives/CGAARC-125.jpg

and a bomber flight from Oshkosh (oh, this should be in the B-24 thread!)
http://www.crystalgraphix.com/archives/CGAARC-051.jpg

oh, and I'm not sure what the historical connection between a Blue Angels A-4 and Arnold Palmer's Citation....
http://www.crystalgraphix.com/archives/CGAARC-017.jpg

[The Inspector]

Might be a while for that P-8 photo, the first fuselage was just recently received @ Renton from beautiful downtown Wichita so it will be some serious amount of time before the sun shines on it!

[CAPFlyer]

Meh, in the meantime, the P-3 will do. I know there's several over at L3 in Greenville at any given time for maintenance & retrofit...

[spookythecat]

Not the most impressive picture but still kinda cool.

[Airlift48]

Berlin: May, 1998.

C-54 "Spirit of Freedom" in flight with C-17 "Spirit of Berlin" 2 days after the ceremony christening the C-17.

[Steve Nelson]

Back when the Air Zoo was still flying their warbirds, I always wanted them to do a formation flight with their P-47 and one of the 110th's A-10s from just up the road in Battle Creek. I was told that AF regs wouldn't allow it.

SN

[skymstr02]

Steve, nice photo, thanks for sharing it!

[coldaffyduck]

SN,
I don't know about the AF regs not alowing it because in the mid 80'5 Ray Stutsman came down across my Dad's strip in "Little Demon" with an A-10 on each wing. They had coordinated a photo shoot for the Air Force in which the Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt II were pictured in formation. If I'm not mistaken the photo plane was even an A-10.

On another note, we kept trying to arrange a formation flight with a C-130 and our C-60. The part that would have been the best is that a member of our crew on the C-60 had a son flying C-130 at the time. So you would have 2 Lockheed products in the air with a father and son on each plane.