NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 3861 times:
We have the Air Tanker Convention at the Mariott again this year.
Like last time there were regular arrivals of C-130s, C-5s, C-17s, KC-135s, KC-10s as well as smaller transport types like C-12, C-20s, UC-35s etc.
I believe last time there was the Civilian 707 and DC-10 tanker here too. Unfortunately I didn't see it last time because I was up north.
Some of the arrivals happen THIS wednesday, but I think the bulk of the arrivals happen Thursday with the heavies, they arrive every 30-60 minutes, drop off whatever they are dropping off then they depart. Sunday the aircraft return to pick up whatever or whoever they have to pick up
sunking737 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1930 posts, RR: 9 Reply 1, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 3844 times:
The Thunderbird's are to do a fly over of Walt Disney World tomorrow Oct 26th at around 1515. They are in an air show at Cocoa Beach this weekend.
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 3825 times:
Quoting sunking737 (Reply 1): The Thunderbird's are to do a fly over of Walt Disney World tomorrow Oct 26th at around 1515. They are in an air show at Cocoa Beach this weekend.
That is cool to know. I wasn't aware they would be doing that but it does make for a great photo for their 2011 calenders if they made them yet.
I wish I could go to Cocoa, but I gotta work Sat and Sun, so I am going to miss these tankers and the airshow.
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 3, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 3803 times:
This is huge! If you love C-5's C-17's KC-10s KC135's and anything else heavy military, this is your weekend! A constant flow of large aircraft will arrive..They come from all over the world..there were so many C-130s last time, I lost count...In most cases the acft taxi to the gemeral aviation ramp, leave the engines running drop a few passengers off and go right out again....It absolutely amazing!! Its the military equivelent to a major airline hub....close to a hundred plus movements....the heavy metal will stick around for the long weekend....Cant wait!
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 3777 times:
Crownvic, didn't the civilian 707 tanker and DC-10 come too last time? I thought I remember reading it on here.
I'm trying to build up my military serial collection in my photos so I am also happy to see some of the smaller military planes too. I would love to get some C-5s though here.
I seen a couple all white G-IVs (which could have been C-20s)and a G-V fly over as well as a couple Beech 400s (which could have been T-1 Jayhawks) because there is nothing on flightaware for them.
Air Force 2 was here earlier today as well as some military transports bringing in Director of Homeland Security and other important cabinet officials.
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 5, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 3759 times:
yes the Omega 707 and DC-10 were here all weekend...the DC-10 wound up staying about a month afterwords....In fact some google photos referencing MCO from overhead show it parked on the west ramp!
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 3661 times:
Crownvic, I know you are into the heavies, but were there a lot of smaller military transports during this too like C-27s etc? Any fighter aircraft?
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 7, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 3599 times:
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (2 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 3443 times:
Do you remember when the bult of the arrivals were? morning or evening? I might try to take a last minute vacation day Sunday if weather is nice.
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 9, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 3391 times:
it was all day long but most of the activity was in the late afternoon
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 3360 times:
Any chance of foreign military movements or is this strictly U.S. military? I know Wednesday we are supposed to be getting some operations from overseas, but I think they are all coming from U.S. bases. I am hoping to see maybe an RAF Tristar refueler or a VC-10 refueler or someone bringing in an A330 (KC-45) refueler, but this isn't likely is it?
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 3271 times:
Arrivals today, unfortunately not that much:
KC-135 serial # 57-1488 landed at 3:45p
Air Force C-40C serial # 05-0932 (this is a 737G painted like Air Force One) landed at 4:08p
Navy UC-12 (King Air 200) buno 161502 landed at 5:08p
GATORMAN96 From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 693 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 3203 times:
NASCARAirforce, Crownvic, thanks for the heads up! Is there a particular time on Sunday that there will be a lot of movements? I am flying out of MCO around 1:30PM. Is it worth getting to the airport early on Sunday?
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3154 times:
Quoting GATORMAN96 (Reply 12): NASCARAirforce, Crownvic, thanks for the heads up! Is there a particular time on Sunday that there will be a lot of movements? I am flying out of MCO around 1:30PM. Is it worth getting to the airport early on Sunday?
I'm not sure which time will be the busiest Sunday, today I would say the peak movements were 11a-12p, then another bunch around 2p-3p
Depends what airside you are flying out of. You won't be able to see these ops from AS 2 or 4 since everything is on the west ramp and using 18R
Movements today.
Started around 8am with back to back C-17s
I went to nearby park and got a KC-135 out of NC around 8:30, followed by a DHL DC-8, so it was cool to see a 707 and DC-8 just 2 min from each other.
A C-17 came in around 9am
Then there were 4 C-130s that came in between 10:00 and 10:40
Around 11am a couple KC-10s came in and the C-40 took off along with a couple C-130s
I would say by type today either watching from roof or GOAA cameras:
4 KC-10s
5-6 KC-135s
too many C-130s to count, but I would say somewhere between 15-20, even one of the Antartic ones with the orange tail and skis
I would say about 15 or so C-17s
2 C-20s (military Gulfstream 3s) one in blue and white colors, the other one all gray
2 C-21s (military Lear 35s)
5 T-1 Jayhawks (Military Beech 400s) all came in one after each other
The T-1s, the C-20s and one C-17 is still parked at MCO as I write this, everything else departed
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 14, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 3152 times:
here is the entire day:
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13:51:37
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13:51:30
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crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 15, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 3145 times:
Quoting GATORMAN96 (Reply 12): NASCARAirforce, Crownvic, thanks for the heads up! Is there a particular time on Sunday that there will be a lot of movements? I am flying out of MCO around 1:30PM. Is it worth getting to the airport early on Sunday?
If you have a rental car by all means...however I think it will be later in the day for the bulk of the stuff as the show will still be going on at that time...
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 3143 times:
Add Motown 2 to the list, this is the call sign of the KC-135 that came in right before I left around 7pm and departed about 8pm
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 17, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 3042 times:
There was a UH-60 Blackhawk in and out on the ramp today where the military planes were offloading yesterday.
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 18, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2993 times:
It happens all over again Sunday at MCO - they all will be returning. Hopefully the winds will cooperate and they use 18R
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 20, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2913 times:
quote=sovietjet,reply=19]What is the point of this Air Tanker Convention? Does it happen every year? Is it always in MCO? That's a lot of big aircraft for one day![/quote]
unattendedbag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2897 times:
Quoting sovietjet (Reply 19): What is the point of this Air Tanker Convention? Does it happen every year? Is it always in MCO? That's a lot of big aircraft for one day!
It alternates between Orlando and Nashville. Orlando gets it in even years, Nashville in odd years. Nashville has covered it fairly well over the last several years. (Search for "airlift tanker association" in the search box above)
Wondering if we will ever see photos of the arrivals/departures from Orlando on a.net...
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 22, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2881 times:
sovietjet From Bulgaria, joined Mar 2003, 2339 posts, RR: 14 Reply 23, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 2837 times:
Hmmm I checked out the website but I don't quite understand what this Association is about or why they are meeting and have so much heavy metal coming in to drop off people.
unattendedbag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (2 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 2829 times:
Quoting crownvic (Reply 22): here is a video of some of the arrivals....
good stuff. what runway were they landing on?
Slower traffic, keep right
25 Dazed767: Look in my profile for some pics. Justin
26 NASCARAirforce: I don't recall Orlando having it in 2008. Orlando had it back in 2006 though. I have posted my pictures on a different site, but all of my Sunday ret
27 Dazed767: We only had the DC-10 in 2006. The 707 you're thinking of was Travolta.
28 unattendedbag: looks like it was held in Anaheim that year. http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123123302
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