Project Habu

     New Yorkers would grow to love Concorde like no one else. As soon as they started flying passengers at supersonic speeds in January 1976, it became the goal of Air France and British Airw...

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     Around 10:00 AM on October 10, 1968, SR-71 17977 was poised to take off on Runway 14 at Beale Air Force Base, California. With 12,000 feet of concrete in front of him, Pilot Abe Kardong r...

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       Thanks to the hard work of the Commemorative Air Force, yet another old flight test bird is still in the air. Bell P-63 Kingcobra 42-68941 was born in February of 1944 at the Bell fact...

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     During early Starlifter operations it became apparent that the aircraft should be able to contain more volume while staying within weight and balance requirements. Lockheed began stretchi...

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     When driving through the main gate at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, you are greeted by the sight of the 1/3 scale space shuttle wind tunnel model. During the 1970s, she unde...

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     Just over one year ago, the whole world watched as we launched the first flight of the Falcon Heavy. As the booster stages launched and landed, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was roc...

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    Parachute riggers with the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base give pilots one last line of defense when all else fails. They meticulously inspect and pack the parachutes that air cr...

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     During the Cold War, the US Army’s Nike surface to air missile sites were scattered all over the country, but most densely packed along New England’s Atlantic coast. Just across the b...

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     Falcon 9 serial number 1021 has been to space twice. During her first flight on April 8, 2016, she launched over three tons of cargo to the International Space Station during the CRS-8 m...

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     Five years ago, when I set out to photograph all 30 surviving Blackbird airframes, I knew that A-12 Article 128 would be the most challenging to obtain. She lies inside the high security ...

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     The cockpit of the First Lady contains volumes of history. She was the first C-130 off the production line and became combat hardened in Vietnam as the first to be converted to the AC-130...

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     The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, is the only place where young people can train inside a real astronaut trainer. During the early years of the International Space Station inhabitanc...

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     During the countdown, airmen keep a watchful eye from the control rooms at the Morrell Operations Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The people in this building ensure t...

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January 27, 2019      52 years ago today, we lost the Apollo 1 crew on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. When I shot these photos of the pad, I remembered our three heroes,...

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     Nothing says flight test better than a High Desert sunset over a prototype Century Fighter. YF-100A 52-5755, the second of two prototypes, took her first flight from Edwards Air Force Bas...

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Vlog Episode 4 was filmed in Florida, New York, the Intrepid Museum and One World Trade Center. Music is I’ve Been Lonely by AK & Andrew Applepie https://soundcloud.com/aljoshakonstanty https...

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     There are few safer places to build and test rocket motors than the expansive Utah Desert. The underpopulated area produces few noise complaints during dramatic rocket motor tests. Over t...

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     Before the Space Shuttle carried us to Mach 25, before the X-15 tore through the High Desert sky, before the X-1 punched through the sound barrier, there was this airplane. A small, fabri...

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     In 2015, I was privileged to be included in a team of individuals to restore and assemble a Ranger Spacecraft for the California Science Center in Los Angeles. This is our story.

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     The saga of man’s ongoing effort to tame the flying wing has many facets, but none shine as brightly today as Northrop’s N9MB. Her original history can be found in my previous article...

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