The Planespotting/General AV Geek Thread

[harvyk]

Harvey, I have been to a few CBR open days (inc this one, great photos btw) and consistently the Airport Corp fails badly to manage anything particularly well.
I was waiting with you to rush the aircraft at 9:30 when the gates opened and still only got to see onboard one (lines were over 2hrs by 10am).
I considered posting an AFF meet up but had family in tow. Maybe next year we should arrange a meeting point.

I think there almost needs to be a limit on the number of people they allow to the open day, perhaps via some sort of pre-registration system, either for each aircraft or for access to the event full stop.
I know it kinda goes against the idea of an "Open day", but the "line ride" isn't exactly the fun way to spend the day either.

 

[kermatu]

Nothing that special about these two other than the fact these pics were taken literally 2 minutes apart...

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Alaska Airlines 75th anniversary livery seen at Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG) on Thu 31 Mar 2016.

 

[docjames]

A coupe of pics from AMS.

The very end of the "D" gates is fabulous for spotting - basically at the end of two runways and good views of a/c queueing to take off and start of takeoff rolls.

 

[pjm99au]

I have a memory as a little fella spotting a Singapore airlines liveried Concorde whilst transiting through Singapore on my way to the UK. Quite exciting as a youngster so the memory stayed with me.

Just did a bit of googling and it seems they only ran the service 3 times until Malaysia cancelled over flight rights so lucky to see it.

Interestingly it seems a US airline ran a sub-sonic Concorde shuttle service between Washington, D.C. and Dallas for a while utilising the aircraft downtime between Atlantic services.

 

[kelvedon]

Interestingly it seems a US airline ran a sub-sonic Concorde shuttle service between Washington, D.C. and Dallas for a while utilising the aircraft downtime between Atlantic services.

Yes it was Braniff.
CONCORDE SST : Braniff Concorde Services

 

[FlyboyAl]

Thought I'd throw up some images of the Planes of Fame Airshow at Chino airport, north of Los Angeles. If you like these posts, let me know - there are 2 more days of airshow to go!

 

[FlyboyAl]

The theme this year was remembering Pearl Harbour. To that end, there was an original restored Zero in the air, along with 2 others.

 

[FlyboyAl]

And we had another Spitfire here today.

 

[FlyboyAl]

Of course, we had aerobatics

 

[FlyboyAl]

And some Russian Yaks, doing aerobatics

 

[FlyboyAl]

Last year, we had the F22 Raptor, this year it is an F16
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[FlyboyAl]

Being in the right place when this Bell Airacobra was started up!

 

[TomVexille]

Keep em coming FlyboyAl​. You're doing some great work.

 

[FlyboyAl]

Just a few more

 

[JohnM]

Keep em coming FlyboyAl​. You're doing some great work.

+1 to that.

 

[Major]

Great pictures. Keep posting

 

[kermatu]

Fantastic pics !!

 

[docjames]

Great pics! Thanks for sharing.

 

[FlyboyAl]

Here are a few from the sunrise photo shoot this morning. I think I need to see my attorney as the sunrise was terrible!