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:
Another New Book: Painting Guide for the Boeing Stratofortress Motherships |
If you can get your hands on a Monogram 1/72-scale Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress with X-15A-2 kit and a set of Cutting Edge NB-52 decals, you need this book to help you establish the appropriate paint scheme for any particular mission that you want to model.
The book is 96 pages long.
You can preview the first several pages of the book.
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New Book: Balls Eight |
It has been asserted that the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress, carrying Air Force serial 52-0008, can lay claim to being the airplane that has seen and participated in more history than any other single airplane. For forty-five years, the NB-52B was a fixture at Edwards Air Force Base. While the NB-52B is most famous for launching the three North American X-15 rocket planes, it continued to serve in the role of launch platform for a multitude of programs until its final mission on November 16, 2004. It was the oldest flying B-52 by nearly ten years.The NB-52B launched the three X-15 hypersonic rocket planes.
It launched the Northrop HL-10, Northrop M2-F2/F3, Martin Marietta X-24A and Martin Marietta X-24B lifting bodies.
It simulated the steep, power off approach to landing used by the Space Shuttles.
It assisted in the collection of data about wake turbulence from large aircraft.
It served as an air-to-air gunnery target.
It launched 3/8-scale F-15 Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles (RPRV) and Spin Research Vehicles (SRV).
It launched a Ryan Firebee II drone and the Ryan Firebee based Drones for Aeroelastic Structures Testing (DAST).
It launched the Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) RPRVs.
It dropped the 48,000-pound Space Shuttle Reusable Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB/DTV).
It released a simulated F-111 crew module from its bomb bay to evaluate new parachute recovery systems.
It was the first airplane to launch a satellite into orbit on the Orbital Sciences Pegasus booster.
It tested the drag chute used to decelerate space shuttle orbiters.
It tested pollution reducing fuel additives with a pair of jet engines mounted under its bomb bay.
It launched the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicles.
It launched the X-43A Hyper-X Supersonic Combustion Ramjets.
The book is 200 pages long. It contains 246 color photographs, 89 black and white photographs, and 2 other illustrations.
You can preview the first several pages of the book.
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Stormy Day at Edwards Air Force Base
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While I was at Edwards Air Force Base to photograph the Space Shuttle Atlantis, I also photographed a number of the airplanes displayed on the base as thunderstyorms rumbled through the area.
Space Shuttle Atlantis at Edwards Air Force Base
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis is being prepared for delivery from Edwards Air Force Base to the Kennedy Space Center. Preparations were interrupted by thunderstorms moving through the area on Friday afternoon, forcing its departure to be postponed from Sunday to Monday morning.
Air Ventures Zeppelin Over Buellton
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The Airship Ventures Zeppelin N704LZ cruised across Santa Barbara County on its way from Long Beach to its home base at Moffett Field on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. It is seen here over Buellton at 1:30 PM. It was cruising at an altitude of 1,900 feet and a speed of 29 knots.
Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino
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Over seventy vintage airplanes were displayed at the Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino over the weekend of May 16 - 17. The theme of the show was the Grumman Iron Works. The show featured five Grumman F8F Bearcats, three Grumman F7F Tigercats, three General Motors TBM Avengers, three Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, two North American B-25 Mitchells, two Mitsubishi A6M "Zeroes", several North American P-51 Mustangs and a host of others.
Flying Displays , page 1: Grumman F8F Bearcat Formation Flight, Silver Wings Wing Walker, Rob Harrison's Zlin 50 LX, Grumman Iron Works, Steve Hinton F7F Aerobatics, and Pulse Jet Ground Demo
Flying Displays , page 2: Korean Air Flight, Pacific Air War, European Fly Bys, anf The Horsemen: 3-Ship F8F Bearcat Aerobatic Team
Flying Displays , page 3: Brian Sanders Sea Fury Aerobatics, Airpower Flight, USAF Heritage Flight, USAF C-17 Globemaster III Demo Flight, and Departures
Static Displays
Air and Space Gigapan Update: Blackbird Airpark |
Blackbird Airpark at the Palmdale Airport is home to several aircraft designed by Lockheed's Skunk Works: SR-71A 61-7973, A-12 60-6924, U-2D 56-6721, and F-117A 79-0783.
Mojave Airport Plane Crazy Saturday
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The Mojave Airport hosted the Plane Crazy Saturday fly-in on May 16. Over three dozen airplanes and helicopters participated in the fly-in.
Collings Foundation Warbirds at Burbank
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The Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, N93012 Nine-O-Nine, North American P-51C Mustang NL251MX Betty Jane, and Consolidated B-24J Liberator Witchcraft arrived at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on Friday, May 8, 2009. The warbirds made a number of revenue generating flights, taking aviation enthusiasts aloft for about a half hour.
Jesusita Fire
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The Jesusita Fire broke out in San Roque Canyon above Santa Barbara about 1:30 PM on May 5, 2009. Two Bell Huey helicopters and many County and City Fire Crews responded in short order.
The plume of smoke from the Jesusita Fire drifted slowly on relatively calm winds on the morning of May 8. The speed of this time lapse video has been increased by a factor of 30.
Delta-II STSS-RTRR Launch
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency STSS-RTRR satellite was launched from Vandenvberg Air Force Base on a Delta-II rocket at 1:24:25 PM on May 5.
Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility Dedication
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NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale was dedicated on April 9, 2009.
Fillmore Railfest, March 29, 2009 |
Fillmore hosted Railfest 2009 over the weekend of March 28 - 29. The Sespe #1 0-4-0 steam engine was running on live steam for the first time in years. A pair of EMG F7 diesels pulled an excursion train on runs to Santa Paula. A Metrolink train pulled by a MotivePower MPXpress locomotive was on display. They demonstrated the operation of the Canadian turntable. A miniature live steam 2-4-0 locomotive made runs along a short stretch of scale tracki.
I just spent a week shooting Gigapans in Arizona. They take a long time to stitch. I will add more ar they are completed.
Tour my Gigapans on Google Earth.
B-36J 52-22827 Restoration Update
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The National Museum of the Air Force transferred B-36J-75(III), 52-22827 to the Pima Air Museum near Tucson, Arizona in 2005. It was fully restored at the Lockheed-Martin plant in Fort Worth. It is being reassembled and will be placed on public display. As of March 12, 2009, the fuselage is complete and sitting on its landing gear. The outer wing panels have not been attached,yet. The nose is masked for painting the SAC sash.
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 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. 
Older displays grouped by the year of creation.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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Giant Prints |
You can buy giant prints of my photos. These are intricately detailed, wide-angle images created with a Gigapan robotic camera mount and Stittcher software.
Prints are available rolled or on gallery wrapped canvas. Rolled prints are delivered in a sturdy mailing tube. Gallery wrapped canvas prints are boxed.
Rolled prints can be ordered on a variety of materials: Semi-gloss, High-gloss, Canvas, and 15-mil Vinyl. Vinyl prints can be ordered with grommets.
Gallery wrapped canvas prints are 24 inches by 36 inches. The photographic image wraps around the 1.5-inch thick stretcher bars. No frame is needed.
Rolled prints are avaialable up to 58 inches by 100 inches at 300 pixels per inch. The image files are as big as 522 megapixels (17,400 pixels by 30,000 pixels).
Ground shipping to destinations in the United States is free. Please allow three to four weeks for delivery.
Where to see my giant prints: Examples of my giant prints are displayed at:
Russ Camera Store, 1025 State Street, Santa Barbara
Airport Animal Hospital, 300 Storke Road, Goleta
Retailers: These images can also be produced as 24" x 36" posters in bulk by offset lithography. Inquiries are welcome.
Gallery Wrapped Canvas Prints |
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| Dimensions (inches) | Dimensions (pixels) | Size (megapixels) | Price |
| 24" x 36" | 7,200 x 10,800 | 77 | $310.00 |
Rolled Prints |
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| Dimensions (inches) | Dimensions (pixels) | Size (megapixels) | Price |
| 24" x 36" | 7,200 x 10,800 | 77 | $90.00 |
| 36" x 54" | 10,800 x 16,200 | 175 | $200.00 |
| 48" x 72" | 14,400 x 21,600 | 311 | $400.00 |
| 58" x 100" | 17,400 x 30,000 | 522 | $600.00 |
Visit the Lockett Books Amazon Webstore for a selection of aviation and space related books and DVDs. 
Our calendars, books, and DVDs are produced and shipped by Lulu.com. The LockettBooks thumbnail page illustrates all of my calendars, books, and DVDs. When you order an item from our catalog, it is placed in your Lulu.com shopping cart. When you place your order, the items are produced packaged, and shipped directly to you.
LockettBooks publishes calendars featuring Brian Lockett's photographs. Regular calendars are printed in full color on 100# 8-1/2" x 11" stock. They are coil bound and sell for $16.95.
Aviation and Airshow 2010 Calendars |
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Wide Open Spaces of California:
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The book is 172 pages long. It is available softbound with black-and-white printing or hardbound with color printing.
You can preview the first several pages of the softcover book.
You can preview the first several pages of the hardcover book.
The softbound edition contains 171 photographs and 77 other illustrations.
Put a copy of the softbound Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $39.95.
Books are printed on demand by Lulu.com. When you order one, it is placed in your Lulu.com shopping cart. Lulu.com prints, packages, and ships the book direct to you.
The softbound edition of Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON is also available through the Lockett Books Amazon Webstore for $39.95.
The hardcover edition contains 12 color photographs, 165 black-and-white photographs, 8 color illustrations and 69 black-and-white illustrations.
Put a copy of the hardbound Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $74.75.
Reprints of the Air Force Flight and Maintenance Handbooks for the GRB-36D.
The book is 236 pages long. It contains:
Utility Flight Handbook USAF Series GRB-36D-III/RF-84F Composite Aircraft
Utility Flight Handbook GRB-36D-III FICON Aircraft
Supplemental Handbook Maintenance Instructions USAF Series GRB-36D-III Aircraft
You can preview the first several pages of the book.
Put a copy of the softbound Project FICON Handbooks in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $39.95.
Books are printed on demand by Lulu.com. When you order one, it is placed in your Lulu.com shopping cart. Lulu.com prints, packages, and ships the book direct to you.
Project FICON Handbooks is also available through the Lockett Books Amazon Webstore for $39.95.
Five vintage films produced by the Wright Air Development Center that feature Air Force efforts to carry, launch, and retrieve airplanes from giant propeller driven bombers in the early cold war era. These videos were digitized directly from 35mm films in the National Archives. The subjects include the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin in 1948-49, wing tip coupling a Culver Q-14 Cadet and Douglas C-47 Skytrain in 1949, wing tip coupling a pair of Republic F-84D Thunderjets and a Boeing B-29 Superfortress in 1950, and Project FICON, in which a GRB-36F carried an F-84E Thunderjet in 1952.
| AMC Pictorial Review Number 8 (10:42)
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, Northrop XF-89 Scorpion XF-85 Initial Flight (Silent) (26:59)
Investigation of Aircraft in Coupled Flight (8:11)
Range Extension of Bomber Escort (11:54)
Reconnaissance Parasite Aircraft (16:29)
Total Running Time: 74:15 |
You can preview Reconnaissance Parasite Aircraft:
Part 1.
Part 2.
DVDs are burned on demand by Lulu.com. When you order one, it is placed in your Lulu.com shopping cart. Lulu.com burns, packages, and ships the DVD direct to you.
Put a copy of the Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF videos on DVD in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $24.95.
These videos capture the sights and sounds of steam locomotives running in southern California. Chase the Santa Fe 3751 Northern class steam locomotive as it pulls the California Limited from North Edwards to Bakersfield on December 28, 1991 and from Oro Grande Canyon to Azusa on December 30, 1991. Then follow the Union Pacific 3985 Challenger on an excursion from Pomona to Yermo on August 20, 2000. Running time: 58 minutes.
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Samples of the videos on the DVD:
Put a copy of the Steam Locomotives DVD in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $24.95.
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