Chris Good's Airplane Page

The first section of pictures and videos have come from various places on the Internet.
The second section of pictures are shots I have taken at museums, air shows, and bases in the US and Europe.

Canon AFB 1986 Indian Springs AFAF Air Show 1986 Nellis AFB Air Show 1997 Indian Springs AFAF 2001 USAFA 1987 & 1988 Shadow TUAV 2001 - 2012 Davis-Monthan AFB Air Show 2002 Redstone Arsenal 2009 & 2012 Dyess AFB 2012 MCAS Yuma 2012 & 2015 MCAS Miramar Air Show 2012 Blackstone Army Airfield 2016 Pima Museum 2002 Pima Museum 2009 Hill Aerospace Museum 2009 Blue Angles 2011 Pax River Museum 2011 MCAS Yuma Air Show 2013 USAFA 2013 MCAS Yuma Air Show 2017 WSMR Museum 2019 Sweden AF Museum 2019 Piper Museum 2020 NASM, Washington D.C. Hill Aerospace Museum 2021 National WWII Museum 2022 Commemorative Air Force Museum 2023

From the Internet...

These are photos of a pair of F/A-18 Hornets that made a head on pass just a bit too close, resulting in a mid-air collision. Somehow the pilots managed to recover them back to base. One Hornet got home with part of the left wing and left vertical fin and rudder missing, while the other jet is missing everything forward of the cockpit pressure bulkhead and is a flying convertible because the canopy is shattered too. Look at photo 3; notice the radome, radar and all of the avionics equipment, everything, in front is gone. This created several problems for the pilot: aerodynamics, eventual loss of hydraulics due to loss of fluid, navigation, and probably the most amazing, as the pieces fell away, some debris had to be ingested by the engines (F.O.D.) and he still was able to bring it home! Here is a great article that has one of the pilots describe what happened and how they saved the aircraft.

	F-14 Tomcat ragtop. The pilot managed to land the aircraft after the rear-seat passenger punched out by accident.
	Su-27 crashing during a airshow in the Ukraine. This was actually taken while the aircraft was cart-wheeling from right to left through the frame. Here is the movie of the crash.
	I have seen this photo with different captions, but received this unedited version from someone with first hand knowledge; he was on the deck when the photo was taken. Full details are at http://www.aerofiles.com/f14flyby.html Thanks to Chris Hann for the photo.
	While this plane may have been going faster than the speed of sound, it is not a picture of the F-18 suddenly "breaking" the sound-barrier. Imagine a cone with the nose of the aircraft at the tip of the cone, with the cone getting larger going backwards. The boom heard when a plane is going faster than the speed of sound is actually the overpressure created by the plane traveling through the air. That "boom" sound hits you as the overpressure "cone" edge hits you. The plane may have been going faster than Mach 1 for quite a while - that sound "cone" hits you and you hear the "boom." There is a big difference in the air pressure from just in front of this cone to what is behind the cone. That sudden difference allows water in the air to condense out of its gas state.
movie	Here is a video of an F-14 passing an aircraft carrier showing the same thing. The next time you fly in an airliner, watch the wingtips. If you fly through an area of high humidity, you will see the water condensing out of the air, usually at the wingtips, where there are high pressure differences caused by the wingtip vortices. High speed fighter jets create the required pressure differences easier than airlines, which don't travel quite fast enough.
movie	B-1B bomber doing the same thing.
movie	F-14 passing between two ships low and fast. There is a sonic boom as the plane passes by, but there is not enough moisture in the air to condense out.
	Two F-15's making a very low pass.
	CH-47 Chinook making pickups off a roof in Afghanistan.
	The newest stealth aircraft?
	The pilot had this to contend with when he returned to his plane.

I have taken all the pictures from here down. Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photo.

A-10 Warthog Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina 1988	B-1B Lancer "Bone" Loring Air Force Base, Maine 1988	C-130 Hercules Fire retardant drop Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2002 Five seconds later I was covered in red goop.	C-5A Galaxy Scott Air Force Base, Illinois 1990
CH-3 Jolly Green Giant Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina 1988	MBB Bo 105 Flight for Life helicopter Desert north of Las Vegas, Nevada 2001	Beech King Air Farmville Municipal Airport, Virginia 2003	Pitts S-2A Special Farmville Municipal Airport, Virginia 2003
T-38 Talon Reese Air Force Base, Texas 1986	X-47A UCAV Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Disney World, Florida 2002

Canon Air Force Base, New Mexico, 1986

A-4 Skyhawk	AV-8B Harrier II	AV-8B Harrier II	F-111 Aardvark
F-111 Aardvark	F-111 Aardvark	F-111 Aardvark - Bomb-bay

Gathering of the Eagles, Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, 1986

B-17 Flying Fortress	B-25 Mitchell	F-4U Corsair	P-38 Lightning
P-51D Mustang

United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, 1987 & 1988

CH-47 Chinook Mountains above US Air Force Academy, Colorado 1987	CH-47 Chinook Mountains above US Air Force Academy, Colorado 1987	F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds US Air Force Academy, Colorado 1987	F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds US Air Force Academy, Colorado 1988
F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds US Air Force Academy, Colorado 1988

Dayton Air Show, Ohio, 1991 & 1992

F-14 Tomcat 1991	MiG-29 Fulcrum 1992	OV-1 Mohawk 1991	PZL-104 Wilga 1991

50th Anniversary of the Air Force Air Show, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, 1997

C-121 Constellation	C-121 Constellation	C-17 Globemaster III	C-17 Globemaster III
C-17 Globemaster III	C-17 Globemaster III	C-46 Commando	C-46 Commando
KC-10A Extender

Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, 2001

F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds	F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds	F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds	Predator UAV
Predator UAV

Shadow 200 TUAV, Ft Huachuca & Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, 2001 - 2012

Shadow 200 TUAV Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2001	Shadow 200 TUAV Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2001	Shadow 200 TUAV Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2002	Shadow 200 TUAV Low fly-by with the flaps down Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2004
Shadow 200 TUAV Low fly-by with the flaps down Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2009	Shadow 200 TUAV Low fly-by with the flaps down Fort Huachuca, Arizona 2009	Shadow 200 TUAV Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 2012
Shadow 200 TUAV Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 2012

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Air Show, Arizona, 27 April 2002

A-10 Warthog	A-10 Warthog	Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Carrier	B-1B Lancer "Bone"
B-1B Bone and C-121 Constellation	C-121 Constellation	C-130 Hercules	F-6F Hellcat
C-17 Globemaster III	F-15E Strike Eagle	F/A-18 Hornet	F-107
F-117A Nighthawk	P-51D Mustang	S-3 Viking	T-38 Talon
MiG-21 Fishbed	T-2C Buckeye

Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 2009 & 2012

C-17 Globemaster III 2009	C-17 Globemaster III 2009	C-17 Globemaster III 2009	C-17 Globemaster III 2009
C-5A Galaxy 2009	OH-58 Kiowa 2009	UH-60 Blackhawk 2009	Shadow 200 TUAV Automatic Landing 2012
Shadow 200 TUAV Launch Sequence 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV Launch Sequence 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV Launch Sequence 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV CH-47 Chinook 2012
Shadow 200 TUAV 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV 2012	Shadow 200 TUAV 2012	UH-60 Blackhawk 2012
Eurocopter X3 2012	Eurocopter X3 2012	C-5A Galaxy 2012	CH-47 Chinooks 2012
CH-47 Chinook 2012	CH-47 Chinook 2012	UH-60 Blackhawk 2012	C-17 Globemaster III 2012
CH-47 Chinook 2012	C-17 Globemaster III 2012

Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, 2012

B-1B Bone

C-130 Hercules

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, 2012 & 2015

C-130 Hercules 2012	CH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant 2012	CH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant 2012	F/A-18 Hornet 2012
F/A-18 Hornet 2012	V-22 Osprey 2012	F-35B Lightning II 2016	F/A-18 Hornet 2015
F-5N Aggressor 2015	CH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant 2015	CH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant 2015	CH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant 2015
CH-47 Chinook 2015	F-5N Aggressor 2015	F-5N Aggressor 2015	Mi-24 Hind 2015
Mi-24 Hind 2015	Mi-24 Hind 2015	Mi-24 Hind 2015	Mi-24 Hind 2015
V-22 Osprey 2015	A-6 Intruder 2015	C-130 Hercules 2015	L-39 Albatross 2015
AV-8B Harrier II 2015	F-35B Lightning II 2015	F-35B Lightning II 2015	AV-8B Harrier II 2015
AV-8B Harrier II 2015	F-35B Lightning II 2015	F-35B Lightning II 2015