^^^Oh good god. What a shame to american aviators.

 

Here are the aerospace pics from today's photoshoot...






(^^^ R2 counts for the theme of this thread!)

 

I was back out at Ellington Field on Thursday and I decided to take some more jet photos, looking for fresh angles...







That last one was the best view I could find to accentuate the delta wing planform of George Bush's F-102.

 

And this time I finally took pictures of a few other jets there that I had been neglecting for years, the F-101 Voodoo, the F-80 Shooting Star, and the F-84 Thunderstreak:

 

Not aerospace, but I snapped this pic parked next to vehicles of comparable fuel economy:

 

And catching up on some pics from our airshow last month:

 

That's the most coolest mail box i've ever seen

 

Ha! Except it has a nasty habit of sucking all the letters straight out of the mail carrier's hand, instantly shredding and incinerating them!

 

Had a big day today with getting out on the racetrack at Grand Sport Raceway, then went to the airshow in Galveston and found this opportunity for more jet photos...

 

HIX8:
Lemme see if I can provide pics myself....

 

Glad you're liking them. Here's a challenge photo...

A picture of the RX-8 inside a jet, kinda like this:
http://www.rc-unionen.dk/nytforum/uploads/sj/2005120221523_C5Galaxy-01.jpg

Ha!

 

That doesn't work...

 

At the racetrack yesterday we got into a discussion about front plates, so I thought it would be fun to do a chop for the non-front plate rebels in the club....

 

.... lol

 

I've seen several people post photos of hot jets and such that they work with (or near). It can be easy to slip your 8 into a photo (assuming you have the same passion for these kind of RX-8 pictures).

And for anyone who doesn't work aerospace, there is still all the static displays and such that you can find in the most unusual of places. If you in any way feel so inclined, this is your invite to contribute to this thread.

And if you'd like to snap a photo, but you don't know of a good location, I'd be glad to help you find one. If you live in Phoenix, I can think of at least three excellent spots. I drove through Klamath Falls, Oregon one time and found a sweet one. Hutchinson, Kansas. Upstate New York. You name it. I'm sure that there are many hundreds of good spots throughout the US. Outside of the US, I'm much less familiar. But there are still plenty.

And I'm sure that there are great aerospace photos being posted to this site that I just haven't seen yet. If you'd like to crosspost them into here, that would be great too! (As with Wing5's excellent work, among others.)

 

Oh, and if you do get motivated to park your car close to a high performance jet, be sure not to get TOO motivated...

http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2000.F15_1.GIF

Ha!

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edit: Oops. REPOST warning.

 

I'm an American aviator and I don't mind the President, so you can go pound sand.

 

Whichever way you stand about W, he's still our first fighter jet president!

...even if only part time. Heh. When I saw him out by Air Force One, I was asking if they let him fly it!


(Ref- https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=128305&page=2 -"MostEccentric"Thread,Post#36)

 

Hey Rootski, I see you're advertising the USAF Academy with your avatar. How bout a photo of your 8 at Thunderbird Overlook, or by the B-52, or with one of your gliders?

(If you've posted these somewhere else, then I'd appreciate you throwing me a bone!)

 

Can you take a rain check? I don't have it out here yet.

 

Bummer. I hope you've got traction control for when you do bring it out. Can you say 'hockey puck'?!

 

The entire account that I had hosted photos posted to this thread had gotten wiped out, so I started to host my photos here on the rx8club site. Well now over on the 'Eccentric' thread, five photos that I posted have gotten clobbered.

One might arrive at a conclusion that at least one person among us is hating to the point of vandalism.

 

That's crazy talk. I for one like them a lot.

 

Here's a repost of one of my very first RX-8 photos, from way back in the summer of '03...

(It's a print scan from those lame digital prints, so the 35mm quality is shot.)

 

My car and planes gives me a..... can't say it on here. Nice comparisons though. I used to fly the Saab 340 for US Air Express and then bought my car. Closest thing to flying for me is keeping it in 3rd while on 495 doing 65! Sounds like my old CT-7-9B GE engines!