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:

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.

I recently went for a 90 minute cruise on Canyon Lake aboard the stern-wheeler Dolly. Canyon Lake is located east of Phoenix on the Salt River, between Saguaro Lake and Apache Lake. The landscape is dominated by eroded volcanic tuff from a giagantic caldera eruption that occurred about twenty-nine million years ago.

Two Goodyear F2G Corsairs that competed in the 1949 Thompson Trophy Race were reunited for the first time in sixty-two years at the Commemorative Air Force ramp at Falcon Field, Mesa, Arizona on December 27, 2011. F2G-1 N5588N Race 57 and F2G-2 N5577N Race 74 were brought together for an air-to-air photo shoot over the Superstition Mountains. Race 57 has just undergone ten and a half months of restoration.

Christmas season brings a variety of air freighters that are not often seen at Phoenix Sky Harbor. The pictures below were taken on the mornings of December 22 and 23, 2011.

In 1937, my father, Richard Lockett, was fifteen years old and attended Santa Ana High School. In September 1937 he attended an airshow at March Army Air Field. It featured fighters, bombers, attack planes, and transports. It was a world in which Martin B-10s were old type bombers and Douglas B-18 Bolos were new type bombers. The transport had retractable landing gear and the fighter had fixed wheels. It was notable if an airplane was "all metal".

In 1946, my father, Richard Lockett, worked for General Electric in Schenectady, New York. He and my mother Dorothy Lockett attended an open house at the General Electric Air Research Laboratory on June 22, 1946. It was an overcast day with intermittent rain. The event featured a variety of prototype airplanes and helicopters and some unusual modified airplanes. The first jet airmail service was carried by a pair of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars that departed from the open house.

I reprocessed my photos of Goodyear blimps on the Lighter Than Air Display. This picture of Douglas DC-3 N25CE Puff taxiing past Goodyear Blimp N4A Columbia at the Santa Barbara Airport in October 1985 will appear in the February 2012 edition of Klassiker der Luftfahrt.

Union Pacific Steam Locomotive 844 pulled the Grand Canyon State Steam Special excursion train from Tucson to Phoenix on Saturday, November 12. Union Pacific 844 was the last steam locomotive delivered to Union Pacific. It is the only steam locomotive in the U.S. that was never retired. After ending freight operations, Union Pacific has kept it operational for excursions.

On Saturday, I caught the train near Recker Road in Gilbert. I waited for it to depart the Gilbert Station at the Guadalupe Road Crossing. I raced ahead of it to photograph it on the bridge across the Salt River.

On Tuesday, I waited for the train at the bridge across the Salt River. I caught it again near Recker Road and at the Florence Avenue crossing in Coolidge. I photographed the crew servicing it in Coolidge, and then headed down to Picacho to catch it crossing Milligan Road. I waited on the Highway 87 overpass for the train to depart from Picacho, then skipped the Casa Grande stop. I drove west on Interstate 8 to Gila Bend and backtracked on Highway 238 to the Maricopa Mountains.

See the locations where I photographed the Grand Canyon State Steam Special in Google Earth.

The sixth Boeing 787-8 prototype N787ZA arrived at Mesa Gateway Airport as Boeing Flight 006 from Great Falls International Airport, Montana at 1:33 PM on Friday, November 11, 2011. It departed for Boeing Field 54 minutes later.

See the locations where I photographed Boeing 787s in Google Earth.

I have continued touring back roads around Flagstaff and the Mogollon Rim seeking landscapes to photograph. Last week I drove out to Sycamore Point. The next day I drove around the San Francisco Peaks on forest roads. The recently re-opened Schulz Pass Road leads through the burn zone of the Shulz Fire.

See the locations where I took the pictures on the tour in Google Earth.

My latest Arizona Gigapans feature Sycamore Canyon and the San Francisco Peaks.

Since its first event in 1973, the Copperstate Fly-In has been bringing together aviation enthusiasts in the southwest United States.

See the location of the Copperstate Fly-in in Google Earth.

The Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT N704LZ Eureka remianed moored to its portable mast at Marana Regional Airport until Friday, October 21. It lifted off shortly before 11:00 AM and headed cross country to Buckeye. Then it flew along Interstate 10 to California. I caught up to it at Hovatter Road and the Junction of Interstate 10 and Highway 66 near Brenda.

See the locations where I have photographed Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT N704LZ Eureka in Google Earth.

The Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT N704LZ Eureka arrived at Marana Regional Airport on Friday, October 14. It remained moored to its portable mast until Friday, October 21.

See the locations where I have photographed Airship Ventures Zeppelin NT N704LZ Eureka in Google Earth.

747-8Z5 International N5020K arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport as Boeing Flight 440 at 4:29PM on October 14, 2011 after a 7-hour 12-minute flight that took it as far east as Indiana. It first flew on June 30, 2011. It will be delivered to Abu Dhabi Ameri Flight as A6-PFA. Its construction number is 37500.

See the locations where I have photographed Boeing 747-8s in Google Earth.

I will be posting a series of short vintage Air Force films from the 1940s and 1950s that I acquired from the National Archives.

Excerpt from the Air Force Engineering Division film report 342usaf14150 Experimental and Research Aircraft: The Martin XB-48 took off on its first flight from the Martin plant at Baltimore on June 22, 1947. The flight concluded at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The XB-48 was powered by six 3,820-pound thrust Chevrolet J35-C3 turbojets. This film is silent.

Bob Odegaard has restored Cook Cleland's former racing mount, F2G-1 BuNo 88463 N5577N Race #74 to airworthy condition for Tom Ungurean of Ohio. Odegaard began its restoration for static display at the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio in 2000, but funding dried up and it was purchased by Tom Ungurean. It has been restored in the blue and white colors that it wore at the 1949 Thompson Trophy Race. It was displayed at the EAA show in Oshkosh in July and at the Reno Air Races in September. Following its appearance at the Reno Air Races, Race 74 flew to Falcon Field in Tempe, Arizona and parked on the Commemorative Air Force ramp.

See the location where I photographed F2G-2 BuNo 88463 NX5577N in Google Earth.

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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