With slight apprehension, the clear doors shut and we entered the fight chamber waiting area at iFLY SF Bay.  A slight rumble filled the chamber, and quickly the four 250 horsepower fans roared to life.  Forty five minutes prior to this we were being briefed by our expert flight instructor Travis.  Chin up, arch our [...]

What would bring out 3,500 NASA AMES employees and their family and friends? Well, the world’s largest airborne observatory that they helped design and build. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne observatory is the worlds most heavily modified Boeing 747SP. And it came this past Monday to NASA AMES on a test flight [...]

In addition to photography, I love to collect die cast airplanes. Recently I just expanded my collection with 11 new 1:400 scale military models. So I dusted off my plastic hangars and aircraft terminals that I built by hand and setup a diorama to take so pictures.