During Oshkosh week in 1976 Leeon D. Davis, the designer, builder and then owner of this aircraft, set a new distance and endurance closed-course record flying a 2,265 mile nonstop roundtrip .

This rather new T-45 is soon off to the ranges to drop some blue practice bombs.

This aggressor Huey is normally operating in the Fort Irwin ranges, simulating the Russian Hind, hence the colourscheme and the external modifications. Unit is the National Training Center of the U.S. Army based at Barstow,Ca..

This early 737 was with United Airlines 1968 - 97. It went to Air Philippines (RP-C2024) from 1997 and was later scrapped in Manila.

A nice surprise for me on this sunny day, the 777 in this special livery also showed up a little bit later.

This Satan's Kittens Cat was assigned to CVW-10. The squadron was established on 1 December 1986 and already disestablished on 30 April 1988. The Cat was written off with VF-114 in a crash on 17 May 1990.

Fighter Squadron (VF) 194 "Red Lightnings" was a short-lived Tomcat unit. It was re-established on 1 Dec'86 and disestablished on 30 Apr'88. VF-194 was planned together with VF-191 for a cruise on the USS Independence as part of CVW-10, but before the cruise could take place the squadron and wing ceased to exist. The squadron lineage runs back to 1952 as it was originally established as VF-91 on 26 Mar'52, redesignated VF-194 on 1 Aug'63 and disestablished on 1 Mar'78. This 161297 was delivered to the USN on 2 Mar'82, retired to AMARC on 13 Sep'04 and left for HVF West for scrap on 22 Jul'09.

The rear aircraft is 51-1828, the YRF-84F Thunderflash prototype, first flown in February 1952. As you can see, the second YF-84F Thunderstreak, 51-1345, also had side intakes. These gave some loss of thrust and were not adopted on the basic F-84F. Seen flying near Edwards AFB, both aircraft still have the old canopy of the Thunderjet. Photo from: US Air Force