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Some occasional planespotting from around the Aerospace Valley Full res photos here: https://flic.kr/ps/3WJdKd
Sad end to Universal Hydrogen's Dash 8
Caught at the Mojave Boneyard
Nov. 22, 2025
This and more shots in the album:
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Stratolaunch's "Spirit of Mojave" lifts off with the Talon-A3 reusable hypersonic vehicle
Got the boneyard in the background too 🤙
Phone video of the "Spirit of Mojave" taking off with TA-3 on board!
22.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
She's up!
22.11.2025 19:56 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Talon underneath the 747
22.11.2025 17:12 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Stratolaunch's "Spirit of Mojave" minus Talon
We'll see if it flies today
Holy cow, people caught an Edwards-based B-52 (likely 60-0031) with a pair of LRSO missiles!
lookunderrocks on instagram
L-29 Delfin as FURY02 taking off to serve as chase for the YFQ-44A
02.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YFQ-44A makes its first flight at KVCV, 10/31/2025
02.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Lot more people behind me too. Pretty neat to see
31.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those aren't my shots, but I'll be more than welcome to give you some tips!
31.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Anduril's YFQ-44A making it's first flight today
Tail code 'AI' serial 25-1001
Edited photos to come later
👀
31.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Calspan G-III with an interesting "pod"
It's a 300 gallon tank for an F-16 but crammed with sensor apertures 🤔
Pointy planes in the Southern Californian desert
29.10.2025 05:45 — 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0F414 noises as the X-59 lifts off
29.10.2025 05:26 — 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
X-59 takes to the skies for the first time
Oct 28, 2025
Great to see this thing finally in the air, one of my first projects involved X-59 parts
Some kind of pump issue and the birds weren't getting topped up fully
24.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hearing KC-46 issues live on the scanner is... something
24.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Northrop Grumman Systems' Turbo Stationair (N8898Q) working the pattern at Palmdale earlier this year
It's got the same white/blue/gray livery as the SCAN sensor testbeds, so curious what kind of equipment it has on board
Welp, fuel leak means it won't be flying this week or next probably
The problems never seem to end on that program
Always check your NOTAMs
X-59 first flight imminent 👀
Thanks! I get really lucky sometimes
12.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NASA 884 and 846 yesterday
11.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
NASA884 and 864 over Edwards
884 serving as an X-59 surrogate while 864 performs chase duties
B-21 flight test tempo really is remarkable
03.10.2025 19:51 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
