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🫎 If you stare at the moose long enough, it stares back
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Boeing C-17A Globemaster III fixed-wing four-engine military transport aircraft
🌀Powerplant: 4× Pratt & Whitney PW2000 (F117-PW-100) turbofan engines
🗂️ S/N: 98-0055 (80055)
🛠️ C/N: 50059 / F58
💡 Fun fact: since the engines are mounted high up, C-17 can use it's own power to taxi backwards with much less danger of FOD damage to the engines. Regular airliners aren't usually allowed to do this.
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: Altus Air Force Base, 97th Air Mobility Wing
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
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🧑‍🚀 You're gonna need a space suit for this one
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" single-seat single-engine high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
🌀Powerplant: 1x General Electric F118-101 turbofan engine
🗂️ S/N: AF68-336 (68-10366)
🛠️ C/N: 058
💡 Fun fact: The panoramic film cameras U-2 used in the past produced 18x18 inch exposures, which is enough area to fit 61 IMAX film frames or around 244 35mm film frames
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
🖼️ Prints available, link in bio 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
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🔥 Afterburner fly-by
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5 engine, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529, 1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes from High Alpha Air Shows
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
💡Fun fact: Small protruding part on top of the cockpit is a prismatic rear-view periscope
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔭 Fujinon XF200mmF2
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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