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Joe

@joeyhiggs.bsky.social

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This is My Air Space. I work on F-16s at Hill AFB Utah and have 42 years working on military aircraft both on active duty in the USAF and as a USAF civilian. I love all aircraft and photograph and video both military and civilian aircraft alike.

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Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 6

A KC-135 flies close to the sun at just the right angle to make the sunlight reflect through the trail and cause a incandescent, or rainbow effect.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 4

Delta's 100th Anniversary Edition livery on approach to Salt Lake City.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 2

My favorite subject to photograph, the Moon with aircraft, is coming back into prime photographing phase for the next couple of weeks.

A small passenger jet flying at 41,000 feet passes near the moon.

Aircraft used for parachutist flies near the moon on it's clime to altitude.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 27

Army Lakota helicopter.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 23

A few from yesterday at Ogden-Hinkley Airport Ogden Utah.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 17

Four F-15Es return to Hill AFB after a training mission passing through a sun halo. A few minutes later a KC-135 passes through the halo on approach to Hill AFB.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 15

Westjet out of Canada is starting a service from Edmonton Canada to SLC starting this month and running until October 2025. This is the first one I've seen o approach but the lighting was bad so this is the only distance shot I was able to get.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 14

An F-35 high enough to have the wing vortexes turn into a form of contrail. I have to wonder what it would look like from the ground with a few F-35s dogfighting other aircraft overhead on a humid day?

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 13

Windy day today in northern Utah that put a lot of dust and dirt into the air all day long.

Hard to tell what's clouds and what's dust and dirt.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 11

A C-5M Super Galaxy passed over Utah at 37,025 feet this morning as I was having my coffee in my backyard. It came out of the west and headed east to parts unknown.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 10

Lufthansa 747 flight from Frankfurt to LAX on 9 May 2025 passed near the sun over Utah causing very high contrast between the aircraft and the condensation trail.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 9

Your post made me smile.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 8

A Flexport 747 on approach to Hill AFB Utah.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 4

A few shots from yesterday.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 3

Can you find the F-22 in this shot?

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · May 2

Huge sunspot grouping on the sun today. Grouping shown with six earths.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · Apr 30

A big day for Denver Airport as Lufthansa launches A380 service, the first scheduled A380 service to Denver. fr24.com/DLH480/3a1f9067

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Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · Apr 30

A FinAir A-350 flies high over Utah and passes by a very thin, and very pale, two day old Moon.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · Apr 27

Very nice indeed.

Joe @joeyhiggs.bsky.social · Apr 27

Caught this KC-135R with wingtip refueling pods, from a distance, on approach to Salt Lake City. From the paint scheme I would say this is a privately owned Metrea Aerospace KC-135.