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Mustangs on a Carrier

Per request, USS Boxer CV-21 having F-51D loaded aboard at NAS Alameda, CA, for transport to East Asia in July 1950. On 14–22 July, the ship carried an emergency shipment of 170 Air Force and Navy aircraft, plus personnel and equipment, to the Korean War zone in a record 8½-day trans-Pacific crossing. #ussboxer #cv21 #f51 #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Comet to Nimrod evolution

Nimrod Preservation Group XV232 modifications from the Comet 4 #xv232 #nimrod #rafmanstonmuseum #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Egress Baskets

Here is the first of four emergency egress baskets on the mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at KSC being tested in Jan 2026. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad personnel a way to quickly escape away from the mobile launcher to the base of the pad and where waiting emergency transport vehicles would then drive them away. #artemisii #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

More to see

Even more to explore at Chetton Heritage Museum #chettonheritagemuseum #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

New Glenn lift off

On Nov. 13 2025 Blue Origin’s New Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. #newglenn #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Vulcan XM598

Checking out Vulcan B2 XM598 The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands #vulcan #xm598 #rafmuseum #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Saturn I launch (1963)

On March 28th 1963 a Saturn I (SA-4) lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch Complex 34. The typical height of a Block I vehicle was approximately 163 feet and had only one live stage. It consisted of eight tanks, each 70 inches in diameter, clustered around a central tank, 105 inches in diameter. Four of the external tanks were fuel tanks for the RP-1 (kerosene) fuel. The other four, spaced alternately with the fuel tanks, were liquid oxygen tanks as was the large center