#Northrop T-38 Talon

[lonestarflight]

Film of Space Shuttle Enterprise landing at Runway 17.

"Separation was initiated by the orbiter crew 49 seconds later. Computer 2 stopped executing at separation. The remaining three computers in the redundant set continued operating properly and the crew took the necessary actions to continue the flight as planned. The orbiter was landed on lakebed runway 17 with touchdown at 15:53:51. Touchdown was approximately 1 mile past the predicted landing point. Free-flight time was 5 minutes and 22 seconds. Steering, braking, and coasting tests were performed during rollout which was approximately 11 000 feet. The altitude profile for free flight 1 is shown in figure 4-1."

Date: August 12, 1977

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#ALT-12 #Free flight 1 #Free flight Number 1 #Approach and Landing Tests #Tailcone on #lakebed landing #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #OV-101 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Boeing 747 SCA #Boeing 747 #747 #Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Northrop T-38 Talon #T-38 #Chase Plane #Trainer Plane #video #Landing #Dryden Flight Research Center #Edwards Air Force Base #California #August #1977 #my post

[kj4ta]

Northrop T-38 Talon

#photographers on tumblr #fort lauderdale #air show 2016 #Northrop T-38 Talon #kj4ta #original photographers

[nocternalrandomness]

Front cockpit of a T-38C Talon

#Northrop #T-38 #Talon #jet #aircraft #cockpit #Military aviation #USAF aircraft #Trainer jet #T-38 cockpit #USAF #US Air Force #AETC

[bigglesworld]

Lockheed F-104N Starfighter and Northrop T-38 Talon. Over Edwards AFB

#Lockheed #F-104 #Starfighter #Northrop #T-38 #Talon #military aircraft #NASA

[usafphantom2]

AT-38B-63-8166-HM-479TTW by Michel Klaveren

#T-38 #USAF #57FWW #HOLLOMAN #EGLIN #NELLIS #LUKE #479TTW #AT-38 #FTW #FTS #TALON #NORTHROP #flickr

[gshock930]

Northrop T-38C Talon

#t-38 talon #northrop grumman #aviation #aircrafts #military aviation #us armed forces #usaf #military aircraft

[planesawesome]

Northrop T-38 Talon

[bunsakashitaamericapaintings]

After finishing the USC sketch, on the way back to the parking lot, I crossed the Science Center and above me, suspending in mid-air was something I had always wanted to draw. That makes it the 4th sketch. A very productive day! Northrop T-38 Talon and Northrop F-20 Tigershark California Science Center Fountain Pen and Watercolor on A4x2 hotpress watercolor sketchbook Saturday January 28 2024

#油彩画 #水彩画 #sketch #croquis #cityscapepainting #sketchbook #citysketch #スケッチ #dessin #urbansketchers #watercolorpainting #アート #pasadena #イラスト #グラフィック #デザイン #travelsketch #만화 #urbansketching #losangeles #californiasciencecenter #t38talon #f20tigershark #northropf20tigershark #northropt38 #northropt38talon

[smartencyclopedia]

#united states

[lonestarflight]

"Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise soars above the North Base area of Edwards Air Force Base during its five-minute, 34-second unpowered flight, the third of a series of manned Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT-14). Moments earlier Enterprise had separated from its 747 carrier aircraft, atop which it sat upon takeoff from the Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), with its crew of astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., commander, and C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot. Three T-38 chase planes follow. This photograph was taken from a fourth T-38 chase plane."

Date: September 23, 1977

NASA ID: S77-28667, S77-28540, S77-28668

#ALT-14 #Free flight 3 #Free flight Number 3 #Approach and Landing Tests #Tailcone on #lakebed landing #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #OV-101 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Northrop T-38 Talon #T-38 #Chase Plane #Trainer Plane #Landing #Dryden Flight Research Center #Edwards Air Force Base #California #September #1977 #my post

[formeroklahoman]

Meet Jacqueline Cochran!

When contemplating starting her own business, Cochran learned to fly at the suggestion of her future husband Floyd Odlum, founder and president of the Atlas Corporation, to market the venture. In 1932, she soloed at Roosevelt Flying School on Long Island and received her license after only three weeks of lessons; she then immediately pursued advanced instruction at the Ryan School of Aeronautics and built up flight time. She earned her instrument rating and commercial and transport pilot licenses and entered the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race from London, England, to Melbourne, Australia, flying a Granville R-6H QED, only to be forced down by mechanical difficulty in Bucharest, Romania.

In 1935 she established Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, Wings of Beauty, in Chicago, Los Angeles, and eventually on New York's Fifth Avenue, successfully competing with Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden beauty houses. Cochran flew around the country delivering test products and building up distributors, and she formulated a moisturizer to combat dry skin resulting from high altitude flight. After a flight, Cochran always took time to repair her makeup and comb her hair as a personal preference, while also cognizant of the public view of women pilots as non-feminine.

Cochran was an ambitious record setter. She set two women's speed records in her Beech D-17W Staggerwing in 1937, followed by three major (men's and women's) flying records and, after three attempts, she won the prestigious 1938 Bendix Trophy Race flying Alexander de Seversky's P-35 pursuit plane.

As war in Europe approached, Cochran was one of several women who felt women should be utilized in wartime aviation. In 1941, Cochran selected a group of 27 highly qualified U.S. women pilots to ferry military aircraft in Great Britain for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), as most male military pilots were flying in combat. In 1942, Cochran, at the request of Army General Henry "Hap" Arnold, organized the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) to train civilian women pilots in anticipation of a similar domestic shortage of American military pilots during World War II. Based first at Houston and then Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, the WFTD received primary flight training in military aircraft from military instructors. The WFTD soon merged with Nancy Love's Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS, a group of experienced pilots) to form the civilian Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) with Cochran as director. From 1943 to 1944, 1,074 women flew over 60 million miles ferrying aircraft and personnel, towing targets, and other transport duties. The WASP flew every military aircraft including Boeing B-17 and B-29 bombers. The WASP were disbanded in 1944, and Cochran was at the center of complications that prevented the group from being absorbed into the USAAF's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). The WASP finally received retroactive military status in 1977.

Following the war, Cochran earned more speed records including multiple ones in her Lockheed Lodestar. In 1953, she borrowed a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet (because military aircraft were not available to civilian and especially female pilots) to break the sound barrier; she was coached by Major Charles "Chuck" Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier.

For several years Cochran traded records with French pilot Jacqueline Auriol, a matter of pride for both nations. In 1961, she received permission to fly a company-owned Northrop T-38 Talon and promptly set straightaway courses, speed over various distance closed courses, and altitude records, including an absolute altitude record of 56,071.80 feet that bested Auriol's. In May 1964, now 58 years old and allowed to fly a USAF Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, she set three new speed records and flew Mach 2, twice the speed of sound.

By the time of her death, Cochran received the Distinguished Service Medal for her leadership of the WASP and three Distinguished Flying Cross awards for other records. She was also a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

By Dorothy Cochrane and P. Ramirez

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[nocternalrandomness]

Northrop T-38C Talon -- 25th Flying Training Squadron - Vance AFB, OK

#Northrop #T-38 #Talon #Military aircraft #Jet trainer #training aircraft #Pilot Training #T-38C #Flight training #airplane

[bigglesworld]

Northrop T-38 Talon. Advanced Trainer. First flew in 1959. Over 100 built. With Chevrolet Corvair

#Northrop #T-38 #Talon #training aircraft #military aircraft #Chevrolet #Corvair

[usafphantom2]

USAF 80 FTW Northrop AT-38B Talon 61-0938 (1994)

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[lboogie1906]

Isaiah Washington IV (born August 3, 1963) is an actor and media personality. Following a series of film appearances, he came to prominence for portraying Dr. Preston Burke in the first three seasons of the series Grey's Anatomy. He began his career with Crooklyn(1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996). He appeared in the films Love Jones (1997), Bulworth (1998), True Crime (1999), Romeo Must Die(2000), Exit Wounds (2001), Ghost Ship (2002), and Hollywood Homicide (2003). From 2014 to 2018, he portrayed Thelonious Jaha on The 100. He became the host of a travel cooking show on Fox Nation. He starred in the film Blue Caprice, which was inspired by the 2002 DC sniper attacks. He portrayed perpetrator John Allen Muhammad. He was born in Houston, where his parents were residents of the Houston Heights community. His parents moved to Missouri City, Texas around 1980, where he was one of the first graduates of Willowridge High School. He revealed in an interview with Star Jones that his father, after whom he was named, was murdered when he was 13 years old. He joined the Air Force when he was 19 years old, where he worked on the Northrop T-38 Talon. His first assignment was at Clark Air Base in the Philippines followed by two years at Holloman Air Force Base. After serving in the Air Force, he attended Howard University. He married Jenisa Marie Garland and has three children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgy3qiBOR1-CCWEG1VleHFPCsWej2IzzW3BiNI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[stone-cold-groove]

A flight of Northrop T-38 Talons.