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.*

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The General Electric Air Research Laboratory at the Schenectady, New York Airport hosted an open house on June 22, 1946, less than one year after V-J Day. It was an overcast day with intermittent rain. The event featured a variety of prototype airplanes and helicopters and some modified testbed airplanes. Many of the airplanes were pinnacles of piston-powered aircraft technology. Examples of early jet fighters foreshadowed the coming transition to jet power. The first jet air mail service was carried by a pair of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars that departed from the open house.

Richard Lockett, a General Electric employee, photographed the aircraft participating at the open house. He documented the evolving technology of the day. He also captured the behavior and fashions of the people attending the show.

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The Barry M. Goldwater Ranges are used for bombing and gunnery training for military aircraft based around Arizona. Frequent visitors include General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons from Luke Air Force Base and Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. These pictures were taken on Range 2, 22 miles south of Gila Bend, on Thurdsay, May 3, 2012.

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base hosted Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona to commemorate the state centennial. On Sunday, April 15, I photographed the static displays at the open house.

The Boeing YAL-1A Airborne Laser Testbed was placed on public display for the first time at Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona 2012 at Davis-Monthan AFB on April 14 and 15.

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is hosting Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona to commemorate the state centennial. On Friday the thirteenth, the day before the open house, participants in the flight demonstration program practiced their acts and several airplanes arrived to be placed on static display.

The Boeing YAL-1A Airborne Laser testbed was recently retired to AMARG following the cancellation of the program. During the early phases of the program, it flew out of Edwards Air Force Base as Boeing Company Flight BOE1.

In the early 1970s, Western Airlines, American, and TWA were among the primary air carriers servicing Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. The Arizona Air Naitonal Guard flew Boeing C-97 Stratofreighters and KC-97 Stratotankers from a base on the south side of the airport.

While I waited for the arrivals and departures of the baseball charters at Sky Harbor, I photographed the comings an d goings of other airliners. The bulk of air traffic at Sky Harbor is single aisle, twin-engine airliners.

A pair of charter airliners came to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to take the Seattle Mariners and Oakland As baseball teams to Japan for exhibition games an March 22. 777-246ER JA705J Japan Airlines Flight JAL8808 broght the Mariners back to Sky Harbor on March 30. It returned to Narita, Japan as Flight JAL8007 later in the day.

A pair of charter airliners came to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to take the Seattle Mariners and Oakland As baseball teams back to Japan for exhibition games. Atlas Air 747-481 N263SG arrived at Sky Harbor from Bush International Airport as GTI8472 at 9:10 PM on Thursday, March 21. It departed for Narita International Airport at 12:41 PM on March 22. 777-346ER JA736J Japan Airlines Flight JAL8008 arrived at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport from Los Angeles International Airport at 9:58 AM on March 22, 2012. It departed for Narita International Airport as JAL8807 at 1:31 PM.

I photographed morning departures from Sky Harbor on March 12, 2012 while I waited for the Boeing 787 to take-off.

The An-225 Mriya is in the United States as Flight ADB1248. It arrived at Goose Bay at 0828 GMT on March 10. It departed from Goose Bay at 1053 GMT on March 11. Its intended destination was Minneapolois-St.Paul International, but it diverted to Montreal-Mirabel, arriving at 1325 GMT. It departed from Montreal-Mirabel at 0905 GMT on March 12. It arrived at Minneapolois-St.Paul at 1130 GMT and departed for Grant County International at Moses Lake, Washington at 1521 GMT. It arrived at Grant County at 1845 GMT. It departed from Grant County at 1358 GMT on March 13 and arrived at Calgary International at 1454 GMT.

Boeing 787-8 N787BX was the first 787 to visit Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It arrived from Mexico City on Friday, March 9 and departed for San Diego on Monday, March 12.

Airplanes started arriving for the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport hosted Aviation Day on March 9, 2012. A variety of military aircraft stopped by the airport for gas-n-go.

The Cactus Fly-In kicks off the airshow season with a large collection of Antiques, Classics, Warbirds, Replicas, and Homebuilt aircraft.

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A popular feature at airshows is the Air Force Heritage Flight, in which modern jets fly in formation with vintage warbirds. Each year civilian warbird pilots from all over the country bring their mounts to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to practice flying in formation with General Dynamics F-16 Viperws, Fairchild-Republic A-10 Warthogs, and McDonnell-Douglas QF-4E Phantom II drones from Holloman Air Force Base. Several Norrth American P-51D Mustanges, aCurtiss P-40N Warhawk, a Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, and three North American F-86 Sabres participated in the conference.

On Thursday, February 16, 2012, I participated in a photocall at Naval Air Facility el Centro with photographers from Arizona Aviation Photographers, Aviation Photographers of Southern California, and Fencecheck. We photographed a practice session of the US Navy Blue Angels and then moved to the active runway to take pictures of Hornets from VFA-106 Gladiators and VFA-122 Flying Eagles. The day began overcast and rainy, but cleared up by mid-morning.

The Parada del Sol is an annual parade through Scottsdale. It ia a showcase for a wide variety of horses. It also features vintage cars, firetrucks, and some notable local celebrities. This year the parade celebrates the centennial of the state of Arizona.

Oak Creek meanders through Red Rock State Park near Sedona. The creek is lined with Sycamore and Cottonwood Trees. Several hiking trails provide access to the hills that surround the park.

On the first Saturday of every month (except June, July, August and September), Coolidge Aviation, LLC sponsors a fly-in. The February 2012 Fly-in attracted several Cessna 140s, Vans RVs, Beechcraft Bonanzas, and modern construction Piper Cub variants.

The Goldwater Ranges, south of Gila Bend, are used for bombing and gunnery training for military aircraft based around Arizona. Frequent visitors include General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons from Luke Air Force Base and Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. These pictures were taken on Range 2 on Thurdsay, February 2, 2012.

Over the years, a variety of airplanes have served as presidential transports including a Lockheed Constellation, Lockheed Super Constellation, Boeing 707s, and Boeing 747s.

Boeing VC-25A 82-8000 carried President Barack Obama to the Valley of the Sun on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. It landed on Runway 30 Right at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport at 3:17 PM. The President gave a speech at the Intel plant in Chandler.

EC-121T N548GF was flown from Camarillo to the Yanks Air Museum at Chino on Saturday January 14, 2012. This may have been the last flight by Constellation or Super Constellation in the United States. I updated the display on January 17 with more pictures of its arrival at the Yanks Air Museum.

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.

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.

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.

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

Older displays grouped by the year of creation.

My photographs can also be seen in other internet galleries.

Links to other web sites with aviation and space themes.

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