N404PA returns homw to Bedford, Mass from Nellis. I wonder if it actually operated from Nellis during it's week in the sun?
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N404PA active too!
Lincoln Labs seem to have the whole fleet in action this month. Here is N404PA the B707 which appears to have flown from China Lake ot Nellis today. The last B707 I've seen was N707AR 'Omega Tanker' at Point Mugu (the same day as N105TB) although this is just coincidence. N404PA has been at Point Mugu in the past; what with N20NY at Holloman and N105TB at either Bedford or Manchester, NH it's all go!
There's some photos of N404PA at www.jetphotos.net which are well worth a look.
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Some have asked about the recent activities at Point Mugu regarding the reasons for the 'Janet' Beech trips that go via Oxnard to San Nicolas Island.
I can't profess to understand this but the CALP (Civil Aircraft Landing Program) states companies that are permitted to land at military facilities. This is also a rather good guide to the umbrella organisations for various nefarious activities undertaken by pseudo-civilian aircraft and a Google or two turns up the most interesting companies.
I'll sort out the links properly later but
CALP listing
is a good start as it shows Lincoln Labs
strangely the latest one that I can turn up (thanks for the tipoff G)
CALP Jan-2004 listing
doesn't include Lincoln Labs
Anyhow there's hours of fun here....if you're just starting out as a Fox Mulder-type person, do a search on the companies listed as 'worldwide'. All sorts of interesting stuff; I'm just curious why it's all in the pub
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Aha - here's a job that I might like! from FBOdaily jobs at Eglin
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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 30, 2001 PSA #2967
SOLICITATIONS
UPGRADE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE AIRBORNE ELECTRO-OPTICAL/INFRARED/LASER (AEIL) II SYSTEMS
Notice Date October 26, 2001
Description
The Air Armament Center, 46th Test Wing, is seeking capable and qualified sources to provide Upgrade and Maintenance of the Airborne Electro-Optical/Infrared/Laser (AEIL) II Systems for the Seekers and Sensors Branch (46 TW/TSWI) and Flight Test Division (46 TW/TSI) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
The AEIL II systems are four state-of-the-art airborne platforms that support a variety of multi-spectral instruments; Common Signature Measurement Pod (CSMP) (BASES II), Supersonic Airborne Tri-gimbaled Infrared System (SATIRS), Airborne Seeker Evaluation and Test System (ASETS), and Supersonic Telemetric Airborne Radiometer (STAR) Pod. These systems are used to provide truth and signature
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This year's excursion to Tikaboo Peak may not have included the same level of activity over Groom Lake as last year but was memorable in that it was the first (and perhaps last) time that I was able to log a serial using the naked eye from Tikaboo. Most of the time one is fiddling with high-powered telescopes, cameras and the like carried up the 7900ft mountain and seeing aircraft at all due to the 26 miles distance from the base is all one expects.
Below is HH-60G 91-26352 snooping around us during a security patrol; nice to meet you guys! Next time perhaps you could pick us up and take us for a ramp tour....or at least offer us a ride back to the 'parking lot' at the base of the mountain.
If you have any photos of me waving I'd be most interested!
To be honest I was a little surprised to be standing on top of a mountain in one of the remotest parts of the world being looked at very closely by the security people from the base. It didn't seem like
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Reference to N105TB's synthetic aperture radar is made here Scalable C and VHDL image processors for SAR image processor - user guide
The F-15's pod is here. Perhaps I should send these companies a copy of the photos as theirs aren't great!
North Star Systems Southern Research
MONSSTR from Calculex useful for seeing who else flies the pod e.g. DERA is a customer.
MONSSTR presentation
Pender Technology - see ADAPT
Pender Technology
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Before going flying N105TB and the F-15D were on the Hawkeye Country ramp at Pt Mugu; this image taken from a track on the western (Oxnard) side of the base
Here's the NP-3 'Bloodhound 341' landing
May01^09.avi
Point Mugu really is a nice place for a picnic; shelter from the sun and an array of missiles to entertain you if there's not much going on.
As an indication of what we saw flying on 16-Apr-2004: (rough n ready until I check serials, types, callsigns) in addition to the Gator party
Numerous California ANG C-130Es (and several others parked close to the Pacific Coast Hwy)
57-0497 DC-130A flew morning and afternoon
164485 and 164487 E-2 together
N26974 and N784C SW-4 of Berry Aviation (to San Nic, China Lake etc)
150521/341 NP-3 flew morning and afternoon
N707AR N707 'Omega Tanker' landed and parked at the terminal
161322/7X C-12
/NK-316 C-2A Password 36 diverted in with HF aerial problems
/254 F-14 pl
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Can't remember if I put this up before but here's what N105TB was up to in 2002/3 according to the Director of Lincoln Labs in his report to MiT
http://web.mit.edu/annualreports/pres03/05.00.html
Airborne Seeker Test Bed
The capabilities of modern air defense missile systems have been severely challenged by the advent of low-flying vehicles and modern electronic countermeasures. The Airborne Seeker Test Bed (ASTB) is an instrumentation platform developed by Lincoln Laboratory to investigate these challenges and to identify appropriate seeker architectures and signal processing algorithms. The ASTB, which operates in a Gulfstream II aircraft, provides high fidelity RF and IR reference instrumentation sensors. These sensors are used in parallel with special-purpose wing-pod payloads carrying seekers or sensors being tested. In 2003, ASTB activities include four test campaigns, sensor development, and infrastructure upgrades.
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Here's some holiday photos and sounds from California
Here's N105TB and 84-0045 at the holding point shortly after the QF-4 departed
This is Gator 4 depating on the mission gator4_dep.wav
On the first approach the F-15 did a go-around, presumably to give us a second oppotunity at getting some good shots!
Here's Gator 4 the F-15D talking to Mugu Tower gator4_arr.wav
And this is N105TB returning from the mission
Here's Gator 3 aka N105TB talking to Mugu Approach and Tower gator3_arr.wav