The Goleta Air & Space Museum 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: The Goleta Air & Space Museum is just my web site. It is strictly virtual. There is no brick and mortar air museum in Goleta for people to visit. The Goleta Air & Space Museum 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:
The Gap Fire started burning on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 1 near West Camino Cielo on the crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains above Goleta.
A pair of Sikorsky Skycranes lifted slurry from a station on Bishop Ranch to the hot spots on the ridge and in Elwood Canyon Sunday. A few Santa Barbara County Fire Department UH-1H Hueys lifted water from local reserviors.
The Jason 2 satellite was launched into polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Delta-II rocket at 12:46 A.M. on Friday, June 20.
A sequence of thirty-second exposures of the Delta-II launch.
Over seventy vintage airplanes were displayed at the Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino over the weekend of May 17 - 18. The sky was uncommonly clear blue and the heat was record setting.
Flying displays page 1: Silver Wings Stearman Biplane Wing Walking, B-25 Mitchell Bomber Formation Flight, Steve Hinton Bearcat Aerobatics, and Hollywood Goes to the Pacific.
Flying displays page 2: Korean Air War, The Horsemen, Baa Baa Blacksheep, and Brian Sanders Sea Fury Aerobatics.
Flying displays page 3: Airpower Formation Flight and USAF Heritage Flight.
Stattic displays
Slideshow of the flying displays at the Planes Of Fame Airshow.
The Collings Foundation Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, Nine-O-Nine, North American B-25J Mitchell, NL3746G Tondelayo, and Consolidated B-24J Liberator, The Dragon and His Tail are touring southern California. Here's a slideshow of the Collings Foundation Bombers on previous barnstorming tours.
Although it is late in the season there is a spectacular Poppy bloom in the Antelope Valley.
Slideshow of wildflower photos.
The last four Lockheed-Martin F-117A Nighthawks from the 49th Fighter Wing departed from Air Force Plant 42 at Plamdale, California for Tonopah, Nevada on Tuesday, April 22. Their wings will be removed and they will be stored in their old hangars. The four Stealth Fighters took off from Runway 25 at 2:00 PM.
Slideshow of the visit of the last Stealth Fighters at Palmdale.
The last four Lockheed-Martin F-117A Nighthawks from the 49th Fighter Wing flew from Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico to Air Force Plant 42 at Palmdale, California on Monday, April 21.
Video clips and still frames from the Air Force Engineering Division film report: Experimental and Research Aircraft that feature the first flights of the Convair XB-36 42-13570 prototype of the Peacemaker and the Convair XC-99 43-52436.
The XB-36
The XC-99
A Minuteman III missile was launched on a suborbital trajectory toward Kwajalein Atoll from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1:01 A.M. on Wednesday, April 2.
The Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk fleet is being retired. Here's a retrospective of photos of the Stealth Fighter.
Chase the Union Pacific Challenger class 4-6-6-4 steam locomotive 3985 from Pomona through Cajon Pass and Victorville to Yermo on August 20, 2000.
Vintage video of Boeing B-52G Stratofortresses of the 93rd Bomb Wing at Castle Air Force Base in 1992 and 1993.
Vintage video of Boeing KC=135A and KC-135R Stratotankers of the 93rd Bomb Wing at Castle Air Force Base in 1992 and 1993.
The Saline Valley is home to a great deal of military jet training and testing. I photographed several Super Hornets and Fighting Falcons during a recent visit.
Saline Valley Birdwatching: Slideshow of Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornets from NAS Lemoore and NAWS China Lake and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons from Fresno ANG and Edwards AFB flying at low altitude in the Saline Valley in March 2008.
Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale is home to Blackbird Airpark and the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42. Both airparks are located on Avenue P, adjacent to 25th Street East. Blackbird Airpark is the only place where you can see an SR-71A, an A-12, and a D-21 drone together. There will eventually be over 40 airplanes on display at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark. Blackbird Airpark recently received another black bird, Lockheed F-117A Stealth Fighter 79-0783. The Boeing B-52F Stratofortress 57-0038 that was delivered to the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark last year has been almost fully reassembled. Their Curtiss C-46 Commando is undergoing restoration.
The Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress mothership has been placed on display outside the north gate of Edwards Air Force Base, just off Highway 58 between Mojave and Boron.
I spent five days in the Saline Valley photographing scenery and jets in the wild. Two days after I returned home, the winds were gusting to 48 miles per hour where I was camping.
Panamint Valley and Saline Valley Slideshow: Slideshow of scenery in Panamint Valley and Saline Valley in March 2008.
I used some new methods to build panoramas from old slides that required a lot of perspective correction. I also straightened out some of the more recent panoramas.
On a typically windy day in the Saline Valley I spotted a most unusual cloud.
Raytheon's Convair 580 N580HH arrived at Naval Air Station Pt Mugu From Tucson, Arizona on February 25, 2008.
I recently acquired a Neuros OSD video digitizer and a big hard drive. I digitized my old VHS tapes of airshows, tankers, steam locomotives, and rocket launches. I have started producing Video Shorts and adding them to the displays of the museum.
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform at the Edwards Air Force Base open house in six General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons on November 8, 1987.
Several of my short Time Lapse Video clips have been reworked into compilation videos.
Electric Eye: Different perspective of the lightning storm over Santa Maria on August 30, 2007.
The most recent
additions to displays of the museum are listed on the New Displays Page.
Displays of various types of aircraft,
ordered roughly by the dates of their first flights.
Events
in chronological order.
Displays of aircraft
arranged by location. 
The Goleta 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.
Displays
about particular topics that don't fit the above categories. My photographs can also be seen in other internet galleries.
Use Google to search the Goleta Air & Space Museum for my pictures of your favorite airplane.
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