Great pictures Adrian..looks like fun!!

 

Next trip, gotta head to Berlin!

Fernsehturm Berliner TV tower.





Loaded up and ready to ride.



Kraftwerk Reuter West coal burnin' power plant.



Been awhile for a selfie.



Silly ScareBuses clogging up the pattern. Move out the way!





Vintage Boeing 707 seen better days.



Ready to ride Cap'n. Jet is bolted together tight.



Pull those belts up snug one more time.



Adrianspeeder

 

Last shot of Fernsehturm Berliner TV tower before heading west.



Made it across the ocean in rough weather, and the jet following behind us was also fighting for stability the whole way down.















Pretty paint job.



Second favorite style of shot of my big ole girl heading home.



Adrianspeeder

 

Welcome to sunny California! Fun to visit, but I could never live here.



Apple's Round Building Campus



Sunny in Sunnyvale



Levi's Stadium



Moffett Field's Hangars #2 & #3



Moffett Field's Hangar #1



Visiting the Google's. Tried to buy one, but the place was closed.



Hangar #3



Good morning big sexy!



Looks great in the morning sun.

 

Loaded up and ready to ride.



Curves in all the right places.



It isn't often that we are outsized dramatically by something nearby. I can't even imagine the airships that used to go in there back in the day.



World's biggest scaffolding job.



California hills sure are pretty to look at, but time to go home and get on to the next one.



Adrianspeeder

 

Next trip was a quick run to Spain, Germany, and Fort Bliss TX.



Chemtrail shadow showing on a lower deck of haze from previous sprayings.



Remember, dimmer skies are safer skies. Spray on!



Some people ask how I pack. No matter the location, I bring a 7 day bag that gets me through most trips without laundry. Here I had tore the world apart looking for the ipad charger. Oh well, off to the store for another one.



Had a great chilly night in a German Christmas village.



Looong flight from Germany to Texas. Full tank of 36,000 gallons of gas.



Looking across the Texas/Mexico border.



Middle America





"Chief, why do maintainers draw ****s on everything?" I didn't do it this time! Silly Army passengers set me up.



On to the next one,
Adrianspeeder

 

Hungarian hills





Right turn Clyde.



Hungarian hills







We are hammer down, but still gettin' passed.



This was a slightly disorienting picture. Like water washing up onto a rocky beach, but at 10k+ feet.



Years ago I could never imagine making it to 2500 hours flying along in this aero plane. Drinks on me tonight boys!



Just like out of the Tom Clancy novel, we were picking up personnel and collected intelligence by any means necessary sanctioned by orders direct from the POTUS.

 

Boots on ground for the first time in my grandfather's native land of Hungary.



The Mig 29, NATO codename: Fulcrum. Smuggled photograph from behind the Iron Curtain enemy lines by CIA agent codename CARDINAL.



The Chengdu J-7, NATO codename: Fishbed. Chinese export copy of the Soviet Mig 21. Smuggled photograph from behind the Iron Curtain enemy lines by CIA agent codename CARDINAL.



Agent codename CARDNAL, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov
is safely onboard, and headed to stateside debriefing. When asked why defect from the Soviet Union, "One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?" In reality, saying goodbye to Hungary. Wish we could have stayed longer.



Lower Swatara Pennsylvania! The place I'll always call home. Go figure the one time I get to fly over my house I grew up at, there is a cloud in the way.



Jersey in the house!



Spending the night in somewhere in Ohio, so they gave us a sweet van, and off to find sam'mich's.



Nice field.





Best way to end a long day is with a Coors Lite.



On to the next one,
Adrianspeeder

 

Load up, we gotta go to the desert again boys. You've seen those kinda pictures a lot already, so didn't shoot anything new until our return stopping point in Trier Germany. First time to that city.





















On to the next one,
Adrianspeeder

 

North Atlantic Tracks; truckin’ high above the cold.











Land ho!





Field off to the left on the scope is called Narsarsuaq Airport. Diverted there a few years ago to get Greenland pinned on the map, and was my second most northern landing. Won’t be needing that today.



Looked outside, but we couldn’t see it. Tiny little spot.



‘Murica

 

In these days of satcom, you guys still use HF airways?

 

It's an HF data link with text messaging. HF radio is used as a backup.

Adrianspeeder

 

The Spirit of the Constitution; Dover’s oldest original delivery airplane.





Hey little friends!



“Need gas pumped ASAP chief.” “Well I’m still gonna send it!”



Adrianspeeder

 

 

Very neat!!