NAOKI

米軍戦闘機大好き。モノクロの人生歩んでおります。三度の飯より肉が好き。

[Habubrats SR-71 @Habubrats71]

Why did they start the blackbirds' engines one at a time, never at the same time?
Because the engine was so powerful, if you started both engines at the same time, the airplane would start moving without a pilot🔥🔥

[Habubrats SR-71 @Habubrats71]

The first official flight of the Lockheed A-12 (Article 121) took place at Area 51 (Groom Lake) on April 30, 1962.

It had a brief "unofficial" hop a few days prior on April 26, 1962, or was it April 25? When test pilot Louis Schalk got the plane airborne at 20 feet during a high-speed taxi run.
I am reading the new book “The Impossible Factory “by Josh Dean.  It’s a good book that I would recommend.

Their first flight did not go well. The trouble, Kelly Johnson later wrote, was a stunning failure of pre-flight inspection.

The improper hooking up of the rudder pedals and the nose wheel steering. The rudder and the nose wheel turned in the opposite direction from those desired! Chief test pilot Lou Schalk flew the A-12 about a mile and a half at an altitude of 20 feet before touching back down in a cloud of dust on an emergency dirt runway built on the dry lake bed to accommodate contingencies like this.
The early flights used the less powerful J 75 engines. The J 58 were being worked on by Pratt and Whitney and they were powerful! How powerful? Twice the horsepower of all the engines on the Queen Mary cruise ship which weighs 81,000 tons. The plane's top speed at Mach 3 was twice the speed of a bullet. The plane covered a football field distance in 1/10 of a second.
Test flying to A-12 introduced all sorts of complications. It flew so fast that the first approved test flights. The area was just too small pilots had to fly in a constant bank just to stay inside the boundaries which meant they were always feeling G forces. This problem was solved when the flying area was extended to the entire continental United States. It wasn’t until 1967 that the A-12 went operational during the Vietnam War. The first Black bird was then canceled in 1968 and the SR-71 took over.
Linda Sheffield



[Aviation @xAviation]

F-18 with full Afterburner catapulting from an Aircraft Carrier! 🔥

📹: Jason Blessing

[7th Fleet @US7thFleet]

Coming in loud and clear! ✈️

An F/A-18E roars in for a landing on the flight deck of USS George Washington while underway in the Philippine Sea. Forward-deployed strike capabilities maintain regional stability and guarantee a free and open Indo-Pacific.

#FlyNavy | #US7thFleet

[相良 朱音 @akane_sagara2]

むにゅっ

[NAOKI @rapier108]

@akane_sagara2 柔らかいは正義🥧

[T C Leung @t_leung]

Feral👻
#PhantomFriday

[USAS 🇺🇸 @USAS_WW1]

#avgeek #space #nostalgia #1980s #NASA: Great photos of the space shuttle Enterprise from @milmodelscene he took #OTD Sunday June 5, 1983!

[相良 朱音 @akane_sagara2]

口内炎が左右のほっぺ、下唇にできてつらい😞

※写真は全く関係ありません

[NAOKI @rapier108]

@akane_sagara2 えー可哀そうに😔
（こんなところにクッションが。。。

[Gripen News @GripenNews]

🇭🇺 Puma Squadron #NATO Tiger #NTM2026

Saab #Gripen C

📷 Rebeka Pénzes

[Bastokya @bastokya]

♠️&🐝

[TIFON LINERO @LineroTifon]

Sukhoi Su-57 el caza de última generación de la Federacion rusa.

[Bastokya @bastokya]

🦆

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

Bring your kid to work day at Andersen AFB 😆 ​This shot really puts the sheer scale of the B-52 into perspective. The F-16 isn't exactly a huge jet, but sitting behind a BUFF, it looks more like a 1:48 scale model.

[相良 朱音 @akane_sagara2]

次回の撮影会はいつにしようかなぁー？？🤔
とりあえず8月30日はとある麻雀大会に出演するよ☺️💓

空けておいてね🫶🫶

[Gripen News @GripenNews]

These four countries already do or plan to operate with #EriEye + #Gripen + #METEOR. (And some other bits.)

🇸🇪 Sweden: C/D/E
🇹🇭 Thailand: C/D/E/F
🇧🇷 Brazil: E/F
🇺🇦 Ukraine: C/D/E(/F?)

📷Saab AB, FAB.

[J.J. @kadonkey]

Kadena Eagles and Misawa Vipers at RAAFB Williamstown (a. dunaway) 44FS 13FS JUL95

[J.J. @kadonkey]

A USAF 67th FS F-15C Eagle near OKINAWA (msgt. m. krause)