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:

North American P-51D Mustang N514NH Su Su crashed at the Chandler Stellar Airpark in Arizona at about 1:20 PM MST on Thursday, March 11, 2010, killing its pilot, Nazzi Hirani. It carried cosntruction number 124-44706. It served the Army Air Corps as 44-84850 and it wore that tail number when it crashed. Stephen Johnson and Vanpac Carriers of Oakland, California recovered it from Indonesia in 1978. John MacGuire of El Paso, Texas acquired it in January 1982, registered it as N87JB, restored it as 484850, and named it Ghost Rider. It joind the collection of the War Eagle Air Museum in Santa Teresa, New Mexico in 1988. Former Apollo astronaut Frank Borman and Picacho Aviation of Las Cruces, New Mexico took charge of it on August 10, 1994. Borman registered it as N15FS in August 1995 and named it Su Su. Stan Musick of Brownfield, Texas bought it in 1996 and sold it to Bill Freeman of Wilmington, Delaware in 1999. W.H. Freeman Aviation of Wilmington, Delaware registered it as N151BF on June 18, 1999. Anderson Aviation Incorporated of Point Vedra Beach, Florida registered it as N850AH on March 6, 2000. Its registration changed to N151TH on August 28, 2004. It has been registered to Hirani Oil Arizona LLC since June 22, 2007.

I shot three new air and space Giagan pnoramas on a recent trip to Palmdale and Edwards Air Force Base.

On my way to Mojave Plane Crazy Saturday, I stopped off at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42 and shot a pair of Gigapan panoramas.

Hans Lauridsen is assembling a collection of vintage airplanes at the Buckeye Municipal Airport in Arizona. There are plans to build a 30,000 square foot hangar to house the collection.

The Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress mothership 52-0008 has been placed on display outside the north gate of Edwards Air Force Base, off Highway 58 between Mojave and Boron. It is accessible to the public. There is a turn around just before the security post and a parking area adjacent to the NB-52B.

The Mojave Airport hosted another Plane Crazy Saturday fly-in on February 20, 2010. The day was marked by a cold wind that drove the memorabilia vendors into the hall next to the Voyager Restaurant inside the administration building.

The Antonov An-225 Mriya departed from Houston Bush Internatinoal Airport for Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport in Zanderij, Suriname as ADB2770 at 8:47 PM MST on February 12.

The Antonov An-225 Mriya departed from Las Americas International Airport for Houston Bush Internatinoal Airport as ADB210F at 4:30 PM GMT on February 11. It arrived at Houston at 2:39 PM CST.

The Antonov An-225 Mriya departed from Miami International Airport for Las Americas International Airport (MDSD) at 4:35 AM EST on February 11. It is on its way to Haiti with earthquake disaster relief equipment.

The Antonov An-225 Mriya departed Fairbanks, Alaska for Miami International Airport at 12:57 AM AST as ADB2710. It arrived at Miami at 1:09 PM EST.

The An-225 landed at Fairbanks, Alaska from New Tokyo International as Antonov Design Bureau flight 2710at 10:16 AM AST on February 9.

My latesst Arizona Gigapans are of the Papago Buttes, about twom miles from my new home..

After a recent winter storm, I drove east out of Scottsdale to Four Peaks in the Tonto National Forest.

Honeywell operates Boeing 757-225 N757HW as an engine testbed at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. It made a flight lasting 2 hours and 44 minutes on February 1, 2010. It was conducting a production acceptance test of an AS907-1-1A turbofan engine for the Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet.

I recently toured the Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior, Arizona on an overcast day. A Coati Mundi was munching berries in a tree along the trail.

Twelve of my Gigapan panoramas are on display at the Antelope Valley Allied Arts Cedar Center Gallery in Lancaster until February 21. The gallery is located at the intersection of Lancaster Boulevard and Cedar Avenue, across from the library.

A Delta-II booster launched the Wide-Field Infra-red Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite from SLC-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 6:09 AM on Monday, December 14. The upper stage climbed into sunlight shortly before burnout leaving a brilliantly lit exhaust trail.

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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