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Welcome to Air-and-Space.com (previously known as the Goleta Air & Space Museum). Its primary themes are aviation, astronomy, and astronautics. Mostly it's an excuse to post my photographs taken at airshows, air museums, and hanging around the approaches to airports and military bases, etc. Its pages also contain links to aviation and space oriented web sites.

Air-and-Space.com is a one man operation. My name is Brian Lockett. I take most of the pictures, write the captions, create the pages, and make all the arbitrary editorial decisions.

Please note: Air-and-Space.com is just my web site. It is strictly virtual. I have no brick and mortar air museum for people to visit. Air-and-Space.com is not affiliated with any other air museum, public or private. It's not nice to use my pictures on your web site without asking.*

Click on the images below to link to pages of photographs of air and space related subject matter:


Mogollon Rim, Arizona
August 8, 2010

Mogollon Rim, Arizona, August 8, 2010 On Sunday August 8, I took a day trip up to Payson and the Mogollon Rim, where I visited Willow Springs Lake. I shot panoramas and a time lapse movie of the lake.

Time Lapse Movies Update
August 10, 2010

I use the interval timer in my digital camera to speed up the action in time lapse movies like this one:

Panoramas and time lapse taken on and around the Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona on August 8, 2010 .

Coconino County, Arizona, June 2010

San Francisco Peaks and Shultz Fire, June 25, 2010 In late June I visited Flagstaff. The Schultz Fire had started several days earlier and burned much of the east side of San Francisco Peaks. I explored the forest roads leading south to overlooks of the West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon and the Red Rock Secret Wilderness.

Arizona Gigapan Update
July 5, 2010

Arizona Gigapan Update, July 5, 2010 My latest Arizona Gigapans are of San Francisco Peaks and Oak Creek Canyon overlooks.

Valle Fly-in
June 26, 2010

Valle Fly-in, June 26, 2010 The Planes of Fame East Museum at Valle-Williams Airport, Arizona hosted a fly-in on Saturday, June 26, 2010. The rural setting allowed the airplanes to make lower and closer passes than they do at most airshows. Several familiar airplanes from the Planes of Fame Museum at Chinio were flown over the course of the day. Many of the attendees bought rides aboard the P-51D Mustang, P-40N Warhawk, P-38J Lightning, and Ford Trimotor.

Boeing 747-8 third prototype N50721, c/n 36137
at Mesa Gateway Airport
June 21, 2010

Boeing 787-8 N7874, Mesa-Gateway The third Boeing 747-8 prototype N50217 arrived at Mesa Gateway Airport for hot weather testing on Monday, June 21, 2010. The 747-8 is the largest airplane made in the United States.

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Boeing 787 at Mesa Gateway Airport
May 23, 2010

Boeing 787-8 N7874, Mesa-Gateway Boeing 787-8 N7874 arrived at Mesa Gateway Airport for hot weather testing on Saturday, May 22, 2010, an ironically cool day in Arizona. This marked the first visit of a 787 to Arizona. It did not reach the minimum test temperature of 83 degrees, so the 787 did not perform the hot weather test on Sunday, May 23.

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Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino
May 15, 2010

The Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino filled the day with nearly continuous action and a bewildering variety of airplane types. The acts presented were: P-51 Mustang Missing Man Formation, Silver Wings Wing Walker, Rob Harrison's Tumbling Bear, Navy Flybys, Northrop N9M Flying Wing, Clay Lacy Learjet Aerobatic Performance, Army Air Corps Flybys, The Horsemen  - P-51 Mustang Aerobatics, Air Racing Flybys, Korean Air War, F-16 Demonstration, USAF Heritage Flight, Brian Sanders Sea Fury Aerobatics, P-51 Mustangs, and a USAF C-17 Globemaster III Demo Flight.

Th airshow featured a huge variety of vintage warbirds.  Warbirds flown included fifteen North American P-51 Mustangs, a North American A-36A Apache, two Grumman F6F Hellcats, two Grumman F8F Bearcats, two Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, two Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, two Hawker Sea Furies, a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, a Mitsubishi A6M "Zero", a Douglas SBD Dauntless, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, two North American B-25 Mitchells, a Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a General Motors TBM Avenger, a Fairey Firefly, a Yakovlev Yak-3U, a replica Supermarine Spitfire, a North American F-86 Sabre, a Lockheed (Canadair) T-33 Shooting Star, a Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15, a North American SNJ Texan, a North American T-28 Trojan, and the Northrop N9M-B Flying Wing.

2009 Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino Flying Displays , page 1 Flying Displays , page 1: P-51 Mustang Missing Man Formation, Silver Wings Wing Walker, Rob Harrison's Tumbling Bear, Navy Flybys, Northrop N9M Flying Wing, Clay Lacy Learjet Aerobatic Performance

2009 Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino Flying Displays , page 2 Flying Displays , page 2: Army Air Corps Flybys, The Horsemen  - P-51 Mustang Aerobatics, Air Racing Flybys, Korean Air War

2009 Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino Flying Displays , page 3 Flying Displays , page 3: F-16 Demonstration, USAF Heritage Flight, Brian Sanders Sea Fury Aerobatics, P-51 Mustangs,USAF C-17 Globemaster III Demo Flight

Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino, May 15, 2010, Static Displays Static Displays: Over seventy vintage airplanes were displayed at the Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino over the weekend of May 15 - 16s. A Focke Wulf FW-190 was a highlight of the static displays. The static displays featured two Grumman F8F Bearcats, a General Motors TBM Avenger, three Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, two North American B-25 Mitchells, a Mitsubishi A6M "Zero", nineteen North American P-51 Mustangs, a North American A-36A Apache, and a host of other. There were six Mustangs, a Mitchell, and a Corsair that I hadn't seen before.

Panoramic view of the warbirds on the ramp Just some of the airplanes that were flown at the Planes of Fame Airshow.

Claude Bell's Dinosaurs
May 16, 2010

Claude Bell's Dinosaurs When I was young, observing the progress of the construction of Claude Bell's dinosaurs at Cabazon was a highlight of family trips between Phoenix and southern California. On a recent trip through the area, I stopped at Cabazon to photograph the dinosaurs and have breakfast at the Wheel Inn. It's a classic diner, the sort of place that Large Marge would drop you off at.

Grand Canyon Railway Steam Locomotive
May 8, 2010

Grand Canyon Railway Steam Locomotive, May 8, 2010 The Grand Canyon Railway at Williams, Arizona commemorated National Train Day with a series of short Cataract Creek Rambler excursions pulled by their Baldwin Mikado 2-8-2 #4960 steam locomotive on May 8 and 9, 2010.

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Honeywell 757 Engine Testbed N757HW
Updated May 1, 2010

Honeywell 757 Engine Testbed N757HW, May 1, 2010 Honeywell operates Boeing 757-225 N757HW as an engine testbed at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. I photographed another of its test flights on Saturday, May 1.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
April 30, 2010

Casa Grande Ruins The Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is located near the town of Coolidge, Arizona. The big house was constructed of caliche mud by the Hohokam people in the 1200s and 1300s. A culture of communal irrigation fed agriculture propsered in the area for many decades. The compound was abandoned for inknown reasons before the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s. The descendents of the Hohokam may be the Tohono O'odham people.

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Salt River
April 29, 2010

Salt River The Salt River flows down from Roosevelt Lake through a series of reservoirs to and through the city of Phoenix. It is running very high this spring.

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Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour
Mesa Gateway Airport
April 23, 2010

Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour, Mesa Gateway Airport, April 23, 2010 The Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, N93012 Nine-O-Nine, North American TP-51C-10 Mustang NL251MX Betty Jane and Consolidated B-24J Liberator N224J Witchcraft arrived at the Mesa Gateway Airport on Wednesday, April 217, 2010 and departed for Marana Regional Airport on Friday, April 23. The warbirds made a number of revenue generating flights, taking aviation enthusiasts aloft for about a half hour. These pictures were taken on Friday, April 23.

California Desert Wildflowers
April 11, 2010

California Desert Wildflowers, April 11, 2010 Ocotillo, Creosote, and Brittlebush are in bloom near Desert Center, California.

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In the Wild
April 7 - 9, 2010

In the Wild, April 6 - 10, 2010 I camped out in the Saline Valley photographing airplanes in the wild in April. Camp was buzzed by several F/A-18 Hornets including one destined for delivery to the Australian Air Force. Two Boeing 747 testbeds flew overhead and three Cessnas paid a visit to the Chicken Strip.

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Springtime in the Saline Valley
April 6 - 10, 2010

I spent five days camping in the Saline Valley in April 2010. Lows were in the 40s, the highs were in the eighties. The sky was mostly cloudless. The wind was fairly calm until the last two nights.

Saline Valley April 2010 Page 1 Page 1: Driving into the valley

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Saline Valley April 2010 Page 2 Page 2: Campout

Update: B-36J, 52-22827, Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona
March 29, 2010

B-36J, 52-22827 I visited the Pima Air and Space Museum on March 29, 2010 to shoot more photos and Gigapan panoramas of their recently restored B-36J.

Interviewed by Talk the Talk with 1stAngel

Interviewed by Talk the Talk with 1stAngel I was recently invited to be interviewed for Talk the Talk with 1stAngel Arts Magazine in the UK.

Honeywell 757 Engine Testbed N757HW
Updated March 26, 2010

Honeywell 757 Engine Testbed N757HW Honeywell operates Boeing 757-225 N757HW as an engine testbed at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. It made a flight on March 26, 2010. It was conducting a production acceptance test of an HTF7000 (AS907-1-1A) turbofan engine for the Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet.

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Aerospace and AZ Days
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona
March 20, 2010

Aerospace and AZ Days Davis-Monthan Air Force Base hosted Aerospace and AZ Days over the weekend of March 20-21, 2010. On Saturday, the day started chilly, but temperatures rose to the high 70s by late afternoon. A crowd of hundreds of thousands were treated to a wide variety of aerial demonstrations featuring a Search and Rescue demonstration, a Customs Agency smuggling interdiction, a performance by a Super Hornet from Naval Air Station Lemoore, the Patriots Jet Demonstration Team, a demonstration by a Globemaster III from Altus Air Force Base, flyovers by a U-2S from Beale Air Force Base, parachutists of the Wings of Blue team from the Air Force Academy, flybys by a Flying Fortress and Mustang, aerobatics by Ed Hammill in a Pitts S-2C, an Air Force Heritage Flight composed of a Skyraider and a Thunderbolt I, and concluded with the USAF Thunderbirds.

Air and Space Gigapan Update
March 24, 2010

I shot three new air and space Giagan pnoramas of convair B-36J 52-22827 at the Pima Air and Space Museum on March 17.




New Displays

New Displays The most recent additions to displays of the museum are listed on the New Displays Page.

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Aircraft Types

Aircraft Types Displays of various types of aircraft, ordered roughly by the dates of their first flights.

Events

Events Events in chronological order.

Places

Places Displays of aircraft arranged by location.

Gigapan Panorama Blog

Gigapan Panorama Blog I am now a beta tester for the Gigapan robotic camera mount. It automates the process of capturing multiple images to assemble into a panorama. My earlier panoaramas were typically composed of 24 pictures and contained about 70 megapixels. Now I am producing panoramas assembled from over 500 images and containing over two billion pixels. My Gigapan ID is GoletaBrian.

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum is home to displays of photographs of landscapes of the Southwestern U. S., springtime wildflowers in the Antelope Valley, and wildlife in Antarctica.

Special Subjects

Special Subjects Displays about particular topics that don't fit the above categories.

Archives

Archives Older displays grouped by the year of creation.

Web Presence

My photographs can also be seen in other internet galleries.

Link Pages

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Balls Eight: History of the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress Mothership

Balls Eight: History of the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress Mothership

Painting Guide for the Boeing Stratofortress Motherships

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Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON

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Steam Locomotives videos on DVD

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LockettBooks Calendars

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Aviation and Airshow 2011 Calendars

Vintage Airplanes at Valle Arizona 2011 Calendar

Boeing Jetliner Prototypes and Testbeds: 2011 Calendar

Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base: 2011 Calendar

Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II: 2011 Calendar

Vintage Airplanes at Valle, Arizona:
2011 Calendar

Boeing Jetliner Prototypes and Testbeds:
2011 Calendar

Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base:
2011 Calendar

Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II:
2011 Calendar

I have many more aviation and airshow 2011 calendars.

Natural History and Special Subjects 2011 Calendars

Antelope Valley Wildflowers: 2011 Calendar

Lightning: 2011 Calendar

Antarctic Landscapes: 2011 Calendar

Phases of the Moon: 2011 Calendar

Antelope Valley Wildflowers:
2011 Calendar

Lightning:
2011 Calendar

Antarctic Landscapes:
2011 Calendar

Phases of the Moon:
2011 Calendar

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2011 calendars.

Deluxe Calendars

Deluxe calendars are printed on 13-1/2" x 19' paper. The photos are 9-1/2" x 13-1/2". They sell for $28.95.

Wide Open Spaces of Arizona: 2011 Calendar

Wide Open Spaces of California: 2011 Calendar

Wide Open Spaces of Arizona:
2011 Calendar
Deluxe Edition

Wide Open Spaces of California:
2011 Calendar
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