I am surprised that Northwest allows Royal Jordanian, Lufthansa and British in the Mac as it is. I love how the article said that <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germany)">LH</acronym> is one of Northwest's affiliates. I thought that recently the new North Terminal plan was approved to have customs facil...
Jump to postOk the situation of <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym> and do people really know what a hub is? <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym> has its most flights from Delta Airlines- That is countin...
Jump to postAre you sure Delta became the official airline of Disney in 1986? It must have been late 1986. I was a little kid but my parents took me to WDW in June 1986 as part of a travel package that took us on Eastern Airlines (they were still referred to the official airline of WDW then) and we stayed at th...
Jump to post**""Great just when we thought they were lose with spotting at <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>, looks like things may change...But I'll be there for the Air France arrival. I'll just make sure my car is completely empty and all I have i...
Jump to post**""What happened next?! Why did everyone revert to bigger cars, power bills and an <acronym title="Suva - Nausori (SUV / NFSU), Fiji">SUV</acronym> per family? Surely, it's in the local national security interest (and the climate's) for the US to reduce dependency on foreign oil?""** Hey it costs m...
Jump to postThey're bringing in two extra Delta charters to <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> for the race but they just look to be the boring <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-80s, one already came in. No word on what the 1 pm arrival...
Jump to postI did see a Citation land on 7R this morning but I didnt see any take off tonight, but I did see a lot of King Airs and aircraft equal in size take off on 7R and the Beech 18 took off on 7R Some plane took off on 7R without any lights. I could hear it but couldn't see it. Then there was this noisy t...
Jump to post**Yes, it's snow, and ice, but DTW usually handles winter better than they did tonight**
Not in the Jan 1999 or Dec 2000 blizzards. Has anyone been kept on a plane for 8 hours yet?
Where can you park at the end of 7L where the cops won't harass you?
Jump to postIf the winds were from the west this morning, I was going to be out there at 6am when a lot of the team planes start arriving, but since i knew it was going to be an east wind i decided to sleep in today a little and i will head out there around 9ish. Flight Explorer had about 30 planes on it at onc...
Jump to postThere are B-2s stationed around St. Louis somewhere. I am expecting something a little more spectacular than F-15s or F-18s tomorrow. The F-15s might just be staying here. Last summer during the Busch Series race there were four F-16s that did a fly by and for the Pepsi 400 there were 2 F-15s. Both ...
Jump to postWhat day did he take off on Echo southbound? Thursday? There was a strong northwest wind that day. Yeah I saw the F-18s today. They took off in pairs around 12:40 pm when i was at my apartment, then i saw them fly over the speedway and make a tight turn, then they came back in pairs and went in to l...
Jump to postA horse charter 742? Where was it going?
I know Ocala is a big horse area where a lot of race horses are raised.
I think <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym> will eventually get the A380 probably from an Arabic airline, but it will be many years down the road. There has been talk for years about Emirates coming to <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan...
Jump to postBefore anyone crucifies me for an error.
Its runway 4R/22L that is 12,000 by 200 feet, not 3R/21L that i mistakenly said
If anyone is interested, for those of you spotting at <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> tomorrow. Here is the NASCAR and some sponsors spotting list that A340Spotter and myself put together over this past year. It was posted on the NA...
Jump to postOnly F-18s tomorrow at the Daytona 500? I was hoping for a B-2 or some F-22s (like at the Superbowl). I mean F-18s are cool, but wouldn't they be better for the Busch Series race? Are the Golden Knights coming in for the 500? I saw 3 WWII planes fly high over head northbound yesterday morning, looke...
Jump to postDTW <acronym title="CURRENT: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG), China AND OLD: Guangzhou - Baiyun (CAN / ZGGG) (closed), China">CAN</acronym> HANDLE THE A380!!! Runway <acronym title="Avia Air (Aruba)">3R</acronym>/21L is 200 ft wide and 12,000 ft long. That is long enough and wide enough to handle an...
Jump to postThat privately owned 707 has an American reg though. You would think they would operate with a flight plan and it would show up on red1aviation. Isnt this still flying around? <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/738723/L/" target="_blank">Vi...
Jump to postIt must have been some sort of military/gvt flight. I looked on Red1Aviation.com for all departures this morning and all arrivals yesterday and saw no 707s. The only thing that fits that physical description that comes to <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">M...
Jump to postMy bad, I was thinking someone else mentioned the F-18s What time did the F-18s fly by the track? They must have been really quiet. I live off of Nova and my backyard faces northwest and i can usually see fly bys from my back yard. I could see the helicopter stationed over the track last night and t...
Jump to postThose Truck guys don't get off the ground as fast as the NASCAR guys do. I waited a long time tonight for the planes to take off after the truck race and they are finally just starting to leave now slowly a good hour and a half later. I was listening to the Craftsman truck race on the radio while i ...
Jump to postI remember in the past they used to fly a lot of jets in for the races. Tonight is the Florida Dodge Dealers 250, but I doubt they will fly jets in for that since it starts at 7pm or so and it is dark. I got pics of the F-15s as they flew over. I was in the west lot at ERAU waiting for them. I was t...
Jump to postThe International gates at the Mac Terminal can handle the A380. There is plenty of space between them. When they park two 747s side by side at the Mac, there is plenty of area between the wingtips of each. The International gates are dual gates that can raise to different levels. As for the new run...
Jump to postIs the airspace closed for everyone today between 12 and 6? Or just private pilots? Are people with flight plans allowed to leave and arrive? I am sure there will be NASCAR aircraft needing to move back and forth during the day today, as well as <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acrony...
Jump to postI will be out there a lot this weekend. Hopefully we keep the west wind and the planes use 25R. There are two races tomorrow, some of the big names will be in it. Expect fighter jet fly bys. I only live a mile away from the Riddle Campus so I will be keeping an eye out on flightexplorer for NASCAR a...
Jump to postI just looked at Flytecomm.com and saw that there was an American Transair flight scheduled to come to <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> today. I thought WOW, we'll at least get a 738 here or a 757 if not an L1011, but then I clicked ...
Jump to postYeah I believe one of the banners was a Nextel Cup one, it was white or yellow. It was in the distance but it said something like 2 things built for speed and it showed a phone on it. I couldn't read the other banner which was blue. It was the first time in my life that I had seen something other th...
Jump to postDidn't last year Hooters Air fly to <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym>? There is a Falcon Air Express 727 with a dark blue tail with white X parked near Jet Center amongst the NASCAR planes. The 727 is parked where Roush Racing usually...
Jump to postyeah, i just need to get my new computer so i can upload the software so i can start posting these pics on here if they a.net takes them or at least at myaviation.net.
Jump to postWell <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> codeshares with SAS on those routes, so the routes will be operated by a <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> plane. Its SAS's loss, so its their problem if they want American companies to have a monopoly on all routes out of Sc...
Jump to postUnfortunately all of these ops happened in the dark tonight: But <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> saw a Falcon Air 727 and 733 and is about to see a Miami Air 738 come. I wish this had been daylight. I was not even aware that Falcon ...
Jump to postI got my new digital camera so i am going to be taking pictures of what i can. A few planes came in last wednesday evening. The Penske CRJ taxied in front of me to take off on 25R and I got that, unfortunately the wind shifted to the east soon after and the Hendrick N509RH Saab 2000 and Everham Moto...
Jump to postOther possible airports for smaller bizjets and props could be the Grosse Ile and Ann Arbor Municipal as well as the Oakland Troy Airport which can handle small Citations and King Airs. As for <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>, the Spirit...
Jump to post**"As for the Daytona 500 spotting locations... If anyone is interested, there are two free parking lots that are right next to <acronym title="AB Airlines (United Kingdom)">7L</acronym>, one to the right side around the N3 area, and the other one is right across Williamson underneath the approach p...
Jump to postIt looks cool. Wasn't orriginally Frontier supposed to just be animals of the west or of the frontier? Now they have parrots? They don't even serve any markets that see parrots in the wild. It would be great if they were to ever fly to South America. I think since they fly to Florida they need to ma...
Jump to postHow many runways is this airport supposed to have? With 370 gates you are going to need at least 10 runways if the gates are all going to be used. I take it this airport is going to replace <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> and <acronym title=...
Jump to postB777ER, I thought of a better place to watch the <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> departures after the Daytona 500 and that is the ERAU south lot, although it may not be open to anyone who does not have an ERAU sticker or <acronym ti...
Jump to postDetroit had the Superbowl back in 1982 I believe. Since we are on the subject of <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym> and the Superbowl, where do you figure that the superbowl charters will arrive and take off from and park? I can't think of...
Jump to postI was out in Orlando watching the Superbowl on <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> yesterday and just got back around 1:45. I saw two 764s at <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> when I drove by, one was at the domesti...
Jump to postThere is a second Primarus 757 scheduled to come in around 5:53pm from PHL for those of you who will be in class at ERAU and miss the first one.
Jump to postI usually use flytecomm.com and just check throughout the day, thats how i found out about TMA and Primarus today. I actually accidentally found out about the Delta 764s while looking at my Flight Explorer program that I downloaded a couple days back. I have flight explorer because it shows all of t...
Jump to postThere is a Primarus 757 coming in from <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym> later today too. Airline Flight Number 7504 Departure City (Airport) Philadelphia, PA (<acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PH...
Jump to post***As already said here , NO SURPRISE in this joke competition. The next battle in the region , this of Malaysia , will be a REAL competition.*** Don't worry FC-KC, Airbus will get plenty of victories in future joke competitions with most of your Euro carriers such as Iberia, Aer Lingus, <acronym ti...
Jump to postAirline Transmeridian Airlines Flight Number 496 Departure City (Airport) Boston, <acronym title="Malev (Hungary)">MA</acronym> (<acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>) Departure Time 02/04/2005 09:39 <acronym title="Aero...
Jump to postWell somebody has to pick up the New England fans after the superbowl. I am assuming that they were staying in the Daytona Beach area since every hotel north of Daytona is booked.
Jump to post**""First of all,the model, B737 is in my opinion, an old fusulage and need to be re-designed""** So Solnabo, isn't that kind of the same thing with the A330/A340? Isn't the A330 basically a stretched A300/A310 fuselage? Isn't the A340 basically the same just with popping a couple engines on? What a...
Jump to postYeah Solnabo, you must be smoking what your smilie character is
Jump to postMy theory is that perhaps since Hotels are booked for the superbowl all the way to Daytona Beach that this group of New England fans may have hotels located on Daytona Beach somewhere. These 764s may be back early next week. Anyone at <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / K...
Jump to postI posted about them coming in an earlier thread today. He's right, it was a pretty steep take off. The pilots waved to us as well as a guy in the jump seat. He took off on Runway 25R and I swear he was off the ground where 16/34 crosses and then he put it in a steep angle. He literally took off like...
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