2002 Events |
A commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the
Douglas XA3D-1 Skywarrior was held at the Van Nuys Airport in
October 2002. Four of Raytheon's Skywarriors were on static
display. The morning was capped by a flight of one of the
Skywarriors.
After a one year hiatus, the Edwards AFB Open House returned on October 26, 2002 with several novel aircraft making their first public appearance and an action packed flying display.
Static
Displays of the 2002 Edwards Air Force Base Open House.
Flying
Displays of the 2002 Edwards Air Force Base Open House.
A Minuteman II
was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on October 14,
2002.
Red Flag exercise 02-04
in September 2002. Allies with aircraft participating in the Red
Flag Exercise 02-04 included Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy.
The Camino Fire broke out on the
crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains above Santa Barbara on August
15, 2002. I shot pictures of three helicopters, a Grumman S-2
Tracker, and a Douglas DC-4 fighting the fire.
Camarillo hosted an airshow on August 11, 2002. It featured the aircraft of the southern California Wing of the Air Force formerly known as Confederate and the Experimental Aircraft Association.
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1 of the 2002 Camarillo EAA Fly-in
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2 of the 2002 Camarillo EAA Fly-in on August 11, 2002
On June 24 and June 25, I was treated to a tour of China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station by Captain Jim Seaman, the Military Deputy Commander for Pacific Ranges.
China Lake NAWS is home to a variety of vintage
aircraft. The U.S. Naval Museum of Armament & Technology
has assembled a very interesting collection with some types not
found elsewhere. The Weapons Survivability Laboratory (WSL)
evaluates the damage done to airframes by different types of
weapons.
The Explosive
Ordnance Disposal team set up a demonstration of several
types of explosives, including an anti-car-bomb blast.
China Lake NAWS is home to the U.S.
Naval Museum of Armament & Technology. It houses an
extensive collection of missiles and weapons delivery systems.
Tankers fought the Wolf Fire from
the Santa Barbara Airport during the first half of June 2002.
The Ramona Air Fair
was held over the weekend of June 1-2, 2002
The Collings
Foundation Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, Nine-O-Nine
and Consolidated B-24J Liberator, The Dragon and His Tail
visited the Santa Barbara Airport on May 16 and 17, 2002.
A wildfire broke out in Bouquet
Canyon, near Santa Clarita, California on May 11, 2002. A dozen
tankers fought the fire out of the tanker station at the Santa
Barbara Airport on May 11 and 12. This page features the tankers
that were assigned to fight the Bouquet Canyon Fire from the
Santa Barbara Airport on Sunday, May 12.
Tankers that were assigned to fight
the Bouquet Canyon Fire from the Santa Barbara Airport on
Saturday, May 11.
The 2002 Pt Mugu Airshow was held
on April 19 and 20. It featured the aircraft of the
Southern California Wing of the Commemorative Air Force and
Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-30.
McDonnell-Douglas QF-4S+ Phantom
II, 155749 crashed at Pt Mugu on April 20, 2002, killing its crew
of two.
I spent a week in early April camping in the Saline Valley
photographing military jets, mostly Hornets.
Boeing Helicopter at Mesa, Arizona treated the second annual
International Symposium of Aviation Photographers to an AH-64D Longbow Apache
photo session in the foothills of the Mazatzal Mountains on March
1, 2002.
A Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas Delta-II launched
another constellation of Iridium satellites from Vandenberg AFB
at 9:44 A.M. P.S.T. on February 11, 2002.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation
L-1011, Stargazer, carried the High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) spacecraft from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, California to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on
Friday, February 1.
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