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Great Airplanes![]() Boeing B-52G Midnight Express ![]() Move from Paine Field to Boeing Field ![]() 737 Prototype Airplane ![]() THE 737 IS 50 727 Prototype Airplane The 727 has Flown! ![]() Complete Last Flight Photos Docu-video of Last Flight ![]() Into the Aviation Pavilion ![]() The 707 is 60 ![]() Kelly and the U-2 Concorde
![]() 747 Prototype Airplane ![]() Air Force One - 707 ![]() Lockheed F-104C ![]() Boeing B-47 ![]() Boeing 247 ![]() Douglas DC-2
![]() XF8U-1 Crusader Prototype Airplane ![]() Museum Restoration Center ![]() Restoration Center Wizards ![]() Antonov AN-2 ![]() Boeing Model 40 ![]() American Boeing 727-223 ![]() Saving American 874
![]() A Wing Flies On ![]() de Havilland Comet IV C B-52G Mohawk Valley ![]() 727 Last Rollout ![]() My "First" Airplane or Why I Like Connies ![]() DC-4 CF-IQM ![]() Jeff Johnston
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Passion! This website is devoted to passion!I'm a firm believer in it - whether it be music, cooking, painting, history - all of which I love - or airplanes, trains, boats and other things, which I also love. When you're on the green side of the grass - you ought to live and love life with gusto.You are entering a very popular, albeit, very esoteric website. It is devoted to some of the things I find interesting. Nothing more, and nothing less. Other folks must enjoy some of the same things too, as this website has received many millions of visits in the past few years - including one especially notable day (Sept. 28, 2010), when 1,508,235 hits were recorded in a single day! In September 2010, I had over 6 million hits with half a million visitors. All, without a shred of advertising or promotion. Not bad, not too bad at all.Although the subject matter is pretty narrowly focused, I try to cover it comprehensively and in detail, mostly based upon my own personal experiences. I'm retired after working for Boeing for over 30 years, and have loved airplanes for more than 50. I also like trains and boats, and, well, ....a whole lot of other stuff.I've been a very active volunteer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle since 1965, (Yes - that's over 50 years!), and have managed a series of major projects for them, including the 727 / 737 / 747 Prototypes, Concorde, B-52, Electra and Super Constellation. So, a lot of this material covers these and other projects. But, it is not the Museum's website! Not everyone can come to Seattle or see these airplanes in person - so this will allow you a sort of virtual tour. Actually, some of this coverage may be much better than what you could get if you did visit in person - but DO come anyway! I have enormous data, personal experience, and photographic resources and only hope I can find the time to process and create pages that will share some of these subjects, in depth, with like-minded people throughout the world.What's on these pages now is only 1% of what I have squirreled away!So, forgive me if some of it could be better, fancier, or more up-to-date. Someday.......Enjoy!Bob Bogash Click here for a Quick Video of My Activities Do you have something you would like to Contribute ? Corrections? Comments?
STORIES I've begun writing stories about crazy things I've done in my career. You can find them here. ![]() ![]() Photos I finally figured out that I was a photographer. Sorry it took so long. Here's a new section of Favorites, Airports, and Airlines Here's a collection of my 2019 pix. ![]() Vans Aircraft created a FaceBook page covering my activities - you can find it here. What's New? Best Photos, Airports, Airlines TWA Remember Pearl Harbor - Oree Weller YouTube Video of 727 Last Flight Complete Presentation of 727 Last Flight Last Voyage of the Independence Crash of
Alaska DC-4 March 1957 Last
Flight of 727 Prototype More - last planes out of Plant II Tom BlevinsRed Martindale Website Tips Click on the pictures to go to the indicated sub-section. Most of the sub-sections have numerous sub-sub sections as well. I'm not really sure just how much stuff is in here! Others keep discovering whole new sections - and so do I! This website is really a photo essay journal. There are lots of pictures. You'll enjoy it a lot more on your big computer screen than on your phone. Computers. You remember what they are - don't you? V I D E O S KING-TV in Seattle made two videos of my activities. One covering many of my projects has been posted to YouTube you can view it by clicking here. AirsideTV in New Zealand made a series of videos in April 2002 which they have recently posted to YouTube Restoring the 727 Prototype here. Maintaining the 737 Prototype at Moses Lake in preparation for its Final Flight - see it Here - from KING-5 TV in Seattle: 737 YouTube Video And also Here in much more detail from Airside New Zealand - in Four parts: Part 1 - click here Part 2 - click here Part 3 - Click here Part 4 - Click here Story of the 747 and the First Airplane here Speeches
I give numerous presentations during the year in assorted venues. Contact me if you are interested. Subjects include: Boeing B-52 Midnight Express My Life Restoring Airplanes TCA Lockheed Constellation CF-TGE - Talk and Tour - Museum of Flight Pan Am Boeing 314 - Honolulu Clipper History of the Air Force Plant Office at Boeing (AFPRO/DCMA) History of Boeing Plant II Kelly Johnson Design of the SR-71 Blackbird Boeing 727 Prototype Boeing 737 Prototype Flight Testing the RV-12 All
content
and photos on this entire website are Copyright
1997-2024 Please contact me for permissions to
use my content. Disclaimer: This website is the personal website of Robert Bogash. It is not the Official website of the Museum of Flight. All content, text, and opinions are my own. So great to be retired ! ![]() Northwest - Remembered.... ![]() Aloha Airlines - Mahalo Nui Loa Seaboard World Airlines ![]() A Sad Ending ![]() Loose Seats and Me ![]() Boeing Chase Planes ![]() Remember Pearl Harbor by and about Oree Weller on USS Arizona ![]() Burial at Sea This
web-site is
ALWAYS
under
construction ! Check back often ! ![]() These subjects are coming .... .....one of these days ! 727
Cockpit, Cabin and Restoration photos
737 Cockpit Photos 737 Cabin Photos 737 Detailed External Photos Crash of the Boeing 307 Prototype Nordair More on our FedEx and Orca Bay Airplanes Cascade Tunnel - GN / BNSF Old Cascade Tunnel Stampede Pass and Stampede Tunnel / NP Fishing Boats This Old House Cooking Dingies |
People and Things.... Bob Bogash![]() My Dot ![]() My RV-12 ![]() Some of my Better In-Flight Pictures ![]() Flying over Mt. Rainier ![]() My RV-12 reaches 500 hours ![]() Seattle to Texas by RV-12 Flying the P-40 ![]() a 737 returns to Hope, B.C. ![]() A Week with the Queen ![]() Moving Day at the Museum ![]() The New Aviation Pavilion ![]() Ham Radio Station - W7DDD Chiba - My Pal ![]() Dogs and Airplanes Hansville ![]() Sun, Sea, and Sky ![]() Last Voyage of the Independence ![]() Ships of Admiralty Inlet ![]() Charley Horse Ranch Air Park
![]() My Friend Jim Gannett Kelly Johnson ![]() Kelly's Airplanes ![]() Calabash Ham Radio Group ![]() Jim Blue ![]() Red Martindale ![]() Roy Lundberg ![]() Ray Goudey ![]() Dick Taylor ![]() Brien Wygle ![]() Dick Merrill - Aviation Pioneer ![]() My Friend Kevin ![]() Steve Huemoeller ![]() Jim Jackson Chris Longridge ![]() Holland "Dutch" Redfield ![]() Bob Doe ![]() David Clarabut |
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