Decided to take her for a spin, starting at KEDW (Edwards AFB), then heading to Tonopah's Test range to drop some dummy bombs. My little trip would then take me in for a landing at Nellis, but that changed about halfway through...
First shot, confiscated from a deaf man who just happened to be traveling through the desert, and saw the plane quite some distance away. He's informed us that being so close to the sonic boom, is what made him deaf. I'd probably be deaf too after that ;D
Pulling some G's while changing course to Tonopah...
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Got bored with the fairly long flight from Tonopah to Edwards (I was originally just going to head towards Nellis, but remembered Tonopah wasn't far away, which caused the unexpected high G turn pictured in #2). Thanks for the idea Katahu (See his contest entry ;))
Finally made it to Tonopah. Shot taken slightly after a climb to 10,000 feet, and it's following dive onto the target. More G's! Note to self: Co-pilot starting to look a bit green.
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On the way to Nellis, Co-pilot spotted a contrail going the same direction as us. We decided to make the pilot of the Learjet 45, as we soon found out, a bit nervous. Rocketed past him at 60 degrees nose up, going M0.9 ;D
Co-pilot snapped this. How many civilian pilots do you think can say that they've flown in formation with a B-1B? ::)
Shortly after the above shot. I decided to leave our new friend alone and pull away. Unfortunately, I guess my wing either clipped him, or my virtual engine blew up. Soon after, I was on a -20,000FPM spiral into the Nevada desert :'(
RIP my virtual pilots!
Enjoy the set ;)
Larger, non-resized shots available upon request
Great shots.
