The Planespotting/General AV Geek Thread

[Fruitcake]

If you squint, you can just make out the VA 737 approaching Mascot.

 

[Clivem]

A few Brisbane G20 images from the YBBN spotter group ........some aircraft not often, if ever seen in these parts.

The best is kept for last, two of these birds are doing prep flights now around Amberley / Brisbane - one or them will be Marine One come Saturday.
landings at UQ and BCC - so that looks like how the US President will arrive for speech to students and to the main G20 venue.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Saw one of the AvGeeks interviewed on the news - a teacher from regional QLD who took one month long service leave to be able to plane spot for the whole of G20. That's true dedication to the cause.

Looks like some of the regular spotters have got themselves special access or accreditation to some of the key aircraft viewing areas as they applied in advance.

The loop at Acacia St near the GA area is closed to the public from today 12 Nov until the following Tuesday.

 

[lastrow]

Can you ID the first plane pic, I assume its Russian, and the third I assume is one of those now rarer A340s

 

[Fruitcake]

Can you ID the first plane pic, I assume its Russian, and the third I assume is one of those now rarer A340s

The aircraft in the first photo is an IL-76, the aircraft in the third photo is an IL-96.

 

[bPeteb]

I was sat at home yesterday afternoon and could hear what sounded like the loudest helicopter in history approaching. We live near Royal Brisbane Hospital so medical emergancy choppers passing very close over our house are nothing unusual. The sound this thing was making sure was. I was amazed to look out the window and there was an Osprey! Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I raced outside and it was obviously going in to land beside Victoria Park golf course (at the end of our street). The dust cloud it threw up was amazing. Next minute another one came by and went down behind the golf course.

A while later I could hear a chopper starting up and instead of the Osprey one of the presidential Sikorskys rose up, followed by another and then three Ospreys! As they passed over they were close enough for me to see the crew. Fantastic!

 

[Clivem]

Presume...test run in case evac to R.B.H. required ?? The temporary fencing clearly needs a bit more support ... also spotted on roof top Heli Pad at the P.A....... not much being left to chance. U.Q. is pretty much in lock down in the effected area from tonight also.

 

[bPeteb]

When I was riding past on the way to work this morning they were clearing up a tremendous amount of damage to trees across the golf course. The downwash from those huge blades pretty much mulched a lot of branches!

 

[markis10]

An oldie but a goodie, BNE just tweeted a photo of a Saudia 747SP landing

 

[Clivem]

A few more of the Saudi Arabian king and delegation aircraft arriving. A Boeing 747SP and an Airbus A340 posted to the YBBN spotters group by Bernie Proctor. InterContinental Sanctuary Cove is their base.

 

[Clivem]

Friday G20 arrivals - all images from YBBN spotter group . https://www.facebook.com/YBBNspotter

 

[markis10]

If posting images that are not yours, please kindly credit the copyright owner and provide a link to the original source in order to avoid any legal issues.

 

[Clivem]

If posting images that are not yours, please kindly credit the copyright owner and and provide a link to the original source in order to avoid any legal issues.

Noted - link included cheers

 

[kalboy]

Spotted a rego of MRT-1 on flightradar24 assumed it was a multirole tanker, however its a 737 all the way from Mauritania in West Africa. that's one long haul for a 737.

 

[JessicaTam]

Spotted a rego of MRT-1 on flightradar24 assumed it was a multirole tanker, however its a 737 all the way from Mauritania in West Africa. that's one long haul for a 737.

Good thing if it's a tanker then.

 

[jetlagger]

Some great collection of airplanes parked in BNE for the G20. There were also plenty of avgeeks along Holt St this am watching the arrivals from the south on a balmy day.

 

[markis10]

Spotted a rego of MRT-1 on flightradar24 assumed it was a multirole tanker, however its a 737 all the way from Mauritania in West Africa. that's one long haul for a 737.

Popped into PHE on the way.

 

[markis10]

POTUS is up early this morning.

 

[RooFlyer]

A few more of the Saudi Arabian king and delegation aircraft arriving. A Boeing 747SP and an Airbus A340 posted to the YBBN spotters group by Bernie Proctor. InterContinental Sanctuary Cove is their base.

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Just space enough for my favourite Saudi King story. A number if years ago a colleague and I were visiting mines in Saudi Arabia. One was a smallish gold mine, out in the desert. We drove in via nondescript road, and were trying to find the mine property turnoff when we were horrified to realise that we had somehow wandered onto what was a large, paved runway. Thinking that we must have strayed onto an airbase, we turned around, found the turn off and got to the mine. We sheepishly recounted our story, expecting at any time the Saudi Air Force to burst through the doors.

Ha! The miners explained that a few years back they had invited the King to open the mine . At that, the bureaucracy swung into action - and from nothing, built a paved airstrip to accommodate the king's Jumbo However the King cancelled at the last moment - so the mine became the proud owner of the world's biggest mine runway.

 

[Groundfeeder]

Nothing like a morning painting my fence and seeing the arriving VIP's in their heavy metal to break the humdrum. Then I saw last night that Vlad's IL came over our roof at The Gap with only a tail light and one tail strobe - no other lights visible. Scared of the light Vlad? Closely followed by the Chinese Prez in a fully lit B747.