Test Flight

On Friday, I flew on the first test flight of the DC-8. We spent some time in the Central Valley (we did a lot of that back in 2010), where there a lot of dairies:

Here's a picture of the NASA facility at Palmdale (lower right) and Edwards AFB middle left:

We made a missed approach at Edwards AFB, during which I took a picture of this plane landing:

Before the missed approach, the pilots did some pitch and yaw maneuvers. Unfortunately, this made several people on the flight sick (but not me! I was on Dramamine!). Fortunately, the pitch maneuvers led to this video: