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This beautiful 1941 Valiant Vultee BT-13A in the colors of the USAAF was seen at Oshkosh 2025
Aerial view of Space Shuttle Columbia flying back to Edwards Air Force Base.
Photograph taken by Erik Simonsen, Rockwell International
Date: November 16, 1982
NASA ID: S83-27456
747 Shuttle carrier aircraft carrying the Enterprise Space Shuttle Orbiter taking off with two T-38 Talons chaser aircraft during a ferry flight test.
Date: November 1977
Recorded: November 23, 1981
NASA ID: DF-ST-83-02567
Shuttle Orbiter Columbia aboard 747 transport plane arriving at KSC.
Date: March 24, 1979
NASA ID: KSC-79PC-0056, C-1981-1158
Space Shuttle Enterprise rides piggyback atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, NASA 905, flies over the desert and mountains of southern California during the first captive-active flight of the Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT-9) from Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California.
Date: June 18, 1977
NASA ID: S77-26776, C-1977-2305, EC77-7584, C-1977-2304, C-1977-2306
Space Shuttle Enterprise landing at the Dryden Flight Research Center, during her 5th and final Free Flight of the Approach Landing Test (ALT-16). This flight lasted 2 minutes, 1 second. In total, Enterprise glided for 20 minutes, 58 seconds and was carried in the air for 19 hours, 16 minutes, 7 seconds.
Date: October 26, 1977
Note: if you unmute the video, be prepared for some light cursing from the astronauts.
NASA ID: EC77-8909, EC77-9038, EC77-8851
San Diego Air and Space Museum: 55780791, 55780777
Smithsonian Archives: propix.494131029
source
"Space Shuttle Enterprise accompanied by three T-38 chase aircraft, on approach to touchdown on the Dryden Flight Research Center dry lake bed, Edwards Air Force Base during the Shuttle Program’s Approach and Landing Tests (ALT-13)."
Date: September 23, 1977.
Mike Acs's Collection: link
"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