Tcv From United States, joined Nov 2007, 75 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 6 months 7 hours ago) and read 11089 times:
Hey folks,
I am sitting at my sister-in-law's house in northwest Houston. The planes seem to have altered their approach into IAH just slightly. Each one is lower and further south than I am used to seeing.
I just saw this... plane. I'm a n00b when it comes to aviation so take my next sentence with a pillar of salt: It was the biggest plane I've ever seen.
The colors were dark blue and white. The tail had three white diagonal stripes on dark blue. The rear wheels numbered at least six in two columns. You can guess it moved very slowly. It landed around 530pm CST.
Swiftski From Australia, joined Dec 2006, 2482 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (1 year 6 months 7 hours ago) and read 11082 times:
Quoting Tcv (Thread starter): The colors were dark blue and white. The tail had three white diagonal stripes on dark blue. The rear wheels numbered at least six in two columns. You can guess it moved very slowly. It landed around 530pm CST.
Mark5388916 From United States, joined Aug 2007, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (1 year 6 months 5 hours ago) and read 10763 times:
Your lucky! I've only seen one once before in much a similar fashion. It was presumably on approach for RIV. Sounded loud and looked up and I quickly narrowed it to an A-124.
Mark
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Ikramerica From United States, joined May 2005, 18424 posts, RR: 60 Reply 9, posted (1 year 6 months 3 hours ago) and read 10604 times:
The An-225 comes to IAH every once in a blue moon as well. This was a flight bringing a high capacity generator to be used after the Hurricanes of 2005.
Bingo From United States, joined Nov 2006, 353 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (1 year 6 months 2 hours ago) and read 10163 times:
I saw one landing at IAD bringing in an engine for a 747 that had gone technical while en route to China. Engine hops are a great place to see them. Also go to Charleston SC. They have almost daily flights to Iraq where they fly the Mine Resistant Armored Personnel Carriers (MRAPs). They have the charter service for those into country. Theres a thread floating around here where they talk about that. Great Spot especially for a "noob".
Pnwtraveler From Canada, joined Jun 2007, 1200 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (1 year 6 months 1 hour ago) and read 9832 times:
We see them quite often in YYZ usually with fuselages for the Q400's being build at Bombardier's Dehaviland plant. Also occasionally to fill up with relief suppliers or other large shipments.
WesternA318 From United States, joined Oct 2004, 4349 posts, RR: 29 Reply 19, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 9052 times:
The AN-124 is parked over by the UPS ramp on the East side right now. I was driving by on my way to the Whataburger and saw this HUGE Blue fin from over the cargo buildings. Then it came into view, DAMN, that thing is big. Last time I saw one was in SLC for some car races.
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Bushman From Russia, joined Jan 2007, 39 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 8683 times:
Quoting Tcv (Thread starter): The colors were dark blue and white. The tail had three white diagonal stripes on dark blue. The rear wheels numbered at least six in two columns.
It very much looks like An-124-100 of Volga-Dnepr airlines. Definitely.
Jasondn From Kuwait, joined Nov 2007, 151 posts, RR: 1 Reply 22, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 8644 times:
There are plenty of AN124's in Kuwait - saw quite a few last week. They were standing next to Galaxy C-5s and B747-200Fs. They dwarf the 747 but more or less on par with the C-5s.
Actually last week there were alot of freighters that are normally not here, like the US Airforce Globemaster and MD-11F and DC-10F. The NW 747-200 with windows has been here 2-3 times over last few weeks that I have seen. Thinking about it now, there were also quite alot of B767s
Baron52ta From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 211 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 7887 times:
Quoting Tcv (Reply 12): So, I'm gathering this was a pretty uncommon event!
Yes this is a one of a kind aircraft at the moment, i have be lucky enough to see it 3 times in different places. As for the 124 they fly over regularly going to Manchester and Woodford.
AgentXE1225 From United States, joined Apr 2008, 166 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (1 year 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 7359 times:
Quoting SXDFC (Reply 10): What are these beasts doing in Houston anyways?
IAH I can understand, but I was driving in to work one day, and I saw 2 OF THE SMALLER ONES AND A BEAST AT THE SAME TIME IN MEM!!!!!!!! I almost ran off the road! WTF were they doing in MEM?!?!?!?!? Anyway, they were in and out for about a month. Our longest runway, 18/36C, is 11120 ft long. The Beast almost ran out of runway on takeoff from 18C one day. Another time I saw it take off, it must have been nearly empty because it was off the ground a little over halfway down the field.
29 Mayor: I once saw one in SLC to pickup components for a cement factory going to Russia.
30 Acheron: 20 something with several operators. Most of them belong to Volga-Dnepr, I believe.
31 CJAContinental: Yeah, I can remember seeing the AN-124 twice on the ground when I was there; once when I was going to departures in Terminal D at about 2:30 in the a
32 Bingo: I wonder what the dispatch rate on these are compared to the C-5s.....
33 RussianJet: I thought it sounded more like the colour scheme of Polet. Anyone at IAH - was it actually Volga-Dnepr or Polet?
37 GCT64: Another AN-124 is inbound to IAH at the current time. VDA9427 inbound from Malaga scheduled to land just 4pm local (1 Jun 08).
38 Tcv: Wow! Thanks for the update!! Is there a way for me to determine which runway it's most likely to land on?[Edited 2008-06-01 10:33:56]
39 Bond007: It might of appeared to move 'very slowly' .... but of course, it was probably was just the same as the other airliners Yes, I'm not sure what classi
40 DocLightning: Yeah. It's typical Russian design. Big, ugly, decidedly low-tech, and built like a brick sh... uh.. shed. But if you need to move a lot of something i
41 AT777: I don't remember where they were going, but I saw 2...yes TWO AN-124s in CLT at the same time! This was a couple of years ago and some bad natural dis
42 Bond007: Yeah, they had an INS that needed to be initialized at a known lat/lon (dep end of runway) in their database. Like you say, took about 10 minutes. I
43 FedExFlyerPHL: I actually got to tour the AN-225 in PHL many years ago...I think it was the early 90s as I was still in high school. Wow was it huge!!!! A friend of
44 Tcv: I wonder if there's a weekly arrival at IAH? That's the second one landing at around the same time on a Sunday. Hmmm... I'll have to check FightAware
45 SupraZachAir: Even the towbar is ridiculous.. lol
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