My Dad and I hooked up with the Rawson's and went to the X-Prize cup in 2007. There were less rockets and more airplanes than we expected, but it was a great air show. Got lots of detailed pictures of many airplane systems. Supposedly this is the last time the F-117 will be shown in public, as it is being retired.
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A-10 Tank Hunter. I can't remember what part of the plane this is. Some sort of piston obviously.
A-10 Tank Hunter. Ordinance hard-points.
A-10 Tank Hunter. Firing mechanism, looking into the lower part of the nose.
A-10 Tank Hunter. Ammo chain, missing the spent cartridges.
A-10 Tank Hunter. More of the chain gun firing mechanism.
A-10 Tank Hunter. Better view of the exterior placement of the access hatch. You can see the main landing gear at the lower part of the picture.
A-10 Tank Hunter. A couple of the spent cartridges in the unloading chain.
A-10 Tank Hunter. The main ammo drum, holds 1174 rounds. This thing is big!
A-10 Tank Hunter, the business end. The main cannon has surprisingly deep rifling grooves.
A-10 Tank Hunter. The primary firing mechanism, just fore of the nose gear.
A10 Tank Hunter, Nice overview of the fore gun access hatch and mechanism.
A10 Tank Hunter Nose Gear. You can see the fore and rear access hatches for the gatling cannon at the left and right sides of the picture, respectively.
The Phoenix airport Concourse D
Amadillo Aerospace truck with Pixel on the back.
Someone wasn't paying attention when they strapped this aircraft ground shield on.
B1 Bomber main landing gear
B1 Bomber main landing gear close up
B1 Bomber main landing gear close up. Notice the heat corrosion on the main disc break rotors. Those things apparently get red hot.
B1 Bomber main landing gear with a good view of the scale of the tires.
B1 Bomber main landing gear close up
B1 Bomber main landing gear close up
B1 Bomber main landing gear close up
B1 Bomber bomb bay. This is a ten bomb rack, I think for 2000 lb bombs.
B1 Bomber bomb bay. The front of the 10 bomb rack
B1 Bomber bomb bay. This one is empty, with no bomb rack. Several different modular racks can fit in this bay.
B1 Bomber bomb bay. This one is empty, with no bomb rack. Several different modular racks can fit in this bay.
The main landing gear of the C-5 galaxy class transport jet
The underside of the starboard wing of the C-5 Galaxy class transport jet
C-5 Galaxy class transport jet. It just keeps going and going!
C-5 Galaxy main cargo bay ceiling. It looks like these are control wires.
Some sort of manifold on the interior wall of the C-5 Galaxy class transport.
F-22 Fighter jet
An F-22 Fighter jet ordinance bay
Ordinance lifter, seen here carrying a training laser guided 2000lb bomb about to be installed into the port bay of an F-117
F-117 stealth fighter
Heritage flight, the F-15, F-4, F-117, and F-22
A 27 X 145mm Mauser. It looks like it puts holes in things.
The MOD "spacecraft" by Armadillo Aerospace, more of a lander really.
V-22 Osprey
Osprey starboard nacelle
V-22 Osprey cockpit
Some Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) equipment. From front to back: A water cannon, a 50cal sniper rifle, and a remote handling device.
Some medium sized solid propellant rockets.
The "Speed Up" rocket lander. Uses Hydrogen Peroxide mono propellant.
The "Speed Up" rocket motor
Unreasonable Rocket lander
Another Rocket lander
Another Rocket lander
Thrust nozzles on a B1 bomber
