On paper, it's known as Rainbow Canyon, thanks to walls bathed in shades of gray, orange and red. The Air Force refers to it as the “Jedi Transition,” but almost everyone else refers to it as “Star Wars Canyon.”
Photographers train their cameras on an F-18 fighter jet from Lemoore Naval Air Station, Calif., diving into Rainbow Canyon. Air Force and Navy fighter jets train in Rainbow Canyon, known to many as “Star Wars Canyon,” near the western edge of Death Valley National Park.
The canyon — more than 5 miles long and up to 5,000 feet wide — is about a three-hour drive northeast of Los Angeles, off State Route 190. On paper, it’s known as Rainbow Canyon because of its gray, orange and red strata. The U.S. Air Force refers to it as the “Jedi Transition,” but almost everyone else refers to it as “Star Wars Canyon.”
“It’s pure, raw excitement,” she said. “It’s power. ... those pilots are skilled and they’ve got courage.” For Campbell, each pass is different from the next. In addition to fighter jets, she’s observed helicopters flying in the same space, and once she watched a C-17, a fat military cargo plane with four engines, drop into the canyon like a Slinky and then — as one spectator described it — “saunter” above the desert floor.Richard, 71, and Candy Campbell, 68, of Pacific Grove, Calif.
Larry Grace, a former Air Force veteran and president of the International Society for Aviation Photography, As he waited at the overlook for the next jet to fly through, Koningsveld said he was hoping to spot his favorite plane, an F-15 Strike Eagle — and he did, the following day. “It looks good and it’s enormously powerful,” Koningsveld said.
that were filmed in Death Valley. The exposed rocks on the canyon walls remind them of Tatooine, the home planet of Anakin and Luke Skywalker. The crowd included a few tourists visiting Death Valley National Park, compelled to pull over at the overlook after spotting the lines of tripods and cameras. What’s everyone waiting for? they asked. Sometimes a fighter jet would appear on the horizon with the answer.Indeed, that’s how it happened for Campbell, a former landscape photographer, and her 71-year-old husband, Richard.
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