FlyPeoria From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 377 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1852 times:
Has anyone been able to catch the Cargolux 747 arrive/leave IND since this service started on Friday's back in February? I'm most curious about which side of the airport the plane parks for loading/unloading and which runway they are more likely to use - 23L/5R or 23R/5L - if that's possible to determine.
Schedules show arrival time at IND at 1:35pm on Friday, departing for LUX (via Los Angeles) at 3:05pm.
Thanks in advance (I'd like to make the drive to IND soon to see if I can get some pics of this plane arriving and/or leaving IND). Seeing a Boeing 747 at Indianapolis would be a real treat!
Indy From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 4368 posts, RR: 9 Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1825 times:
Yeah I got pics of it a couple of weeks ago. It landed on the western most runway and parked down where the old express mail facility was.
FlyPeoria From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1803 times:
Indy,
Are there any good spotting locations at the end of either 5L or 23R, since that's the runway closest to that side of the airport?
Fedexexpress From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 284 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1713 times:
Airport police will kick you out of that parking lot . Good luck they patrol that like crazy
"Its not what your country can do for you its what you can do for your country" JFK
FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1625 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1682 times:
I thought that Evergreen served IND am I mistaken as that is a major EAGLE base.
FlyPeoria From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1593 times:
Quoting FlyDeltaJets (Reply 5): I thought that Evergreen served IND am I mistaken as that is a major EAGLE base.
If you're referring to the USPS Eagle Air Network, that closed in 2001 when Federal Express got the contract from Emery Worldwide.
Chase From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 1054 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1571 times:
Quoting Fedexexpress (Reply 4): Airport police will kick you out of that parking lot . Good luck they patrol that like crazy
I've had decent luck spotting from that parking lot, but a) didn't use a camera and b) stayed in my car (with binoculars, though).
Fedexexpress From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 284 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1536 times:
I am just telling you... chase that you are lucky...... I was off duty and i am a Indianapolis Police officer in my POV not in my police car and they told me that i have to leave. Then i drove my police car there and they came up the next day and talked to me and i did not have to leave the parking lot... LoL
Eric
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Jeremy From United States of America, joined May 2001, 668 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1522 times:
Yeah,
I just saw it today. It was parked down by AAR(The old UA Hangar).
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Jeremy From United States of America, joined May 2001, 668 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1518 times:
Quoting FlyPeoria (Reply 6): If you're referring to the USPS Eagle Air Network, that closed in 2001 when Federal Express got the contract from Emery Worldwide.
Actually, the Emery Fleet was grounded when Fedex took the USPS contract, but Kitty Hawk, Gemini, Polar, and a few others were hauling mail at that time.
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FlyPeoria From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1468 times:
I saw the Cargolux 747 Friday. It came in on 23R at about 4:12pm. Flytecomm.com showed a planned arrival of 4:09pm Friday despite the schedules showing a 1:35pm arrival. Departure from 23R was just before 6:00pm, IIRC. I noticed that the plane parked at the old United Airlines maintenance facility.
We had a great time. Upon our arrival on top of the parking deck, an ATA L-1011 (probably N163AT, which is shown in the database) took off on 23R. We caught three FedEx MD/DC-10's, a couple A-300's and my friend thought he saw a FedEx MD-11 when we were driving up the parking deck "spiral." We were able to watch some of these (and an A-310) takeoff on 23L.
Thanks to all who answered my questions!
Quoting Jeremy (Reply 10): Actually, the Emery Fleet was grounded when Fedex took the USPS contract, but Kitty Hawk, Gemini, Polar, and a few others were hauling mail at that time.
I seem to remember that Emery fought this because their contract had three years left (2001-2004) and accused USPS of breaking it illegally. I know the USPS-related "daysort" at DAY ended before the airline was grounded because those hub flights didn't happen during the air show in July 2001 (Emery was grounded the following month, IIRC). I had seen this "daysort" during the weekend air show in both 1999 and 2000.
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