We get international weather diversions from JFK all the time here in Hartford/BDL, and pax don’t typically deplane. There have been a few times when crews have timed out and such where deplaning has been required, and it causes a lot of problems here since the customs/immigration staff isn’t full-t...
Jump to postThe Hindenburg crash site in Lakehurst, NJ is worth a visit. You have to make advance reservations, and be a U.S. citizen to visit, as it’s on an active military base. If you have base privileges, you can get there without issue. They have a small museum on site.
Jump to postSenator Blumenthal rides to the rescue:
https://www.wfsb.com/news/senator-to-ca ... 284a9.html
This plane did a transcon flight from Moses Lake to Westover, MA yesterday.
Jump to postIn the Turkish 981 DC-10 crash in 1974, the crew had lost all control of the aircraft and it entered a 20-degree nosedive. As it neared the ground, its trajectory began to flatten out as a result of the tremendous speed the aircraft gained on the way down.
Jump to postThis Drone thing is seriously getting out of hand... Hard to believe there isn't any private corporations behind all this trying to trade and develop some sort of anti-drone-detection system to be installed at airports. Nah, makes for a good conspiracy theory but the more likely scenario is just st...
Jump to postHartford (BDL) and Colorado Springs (COS) got them, too. I thought I read the reason cities like COS, DSM and OMA got them was to get them out of overnighting in DEN - something about high overnight parking charges or something? The BDL DC-10s operated on an ORD-BDL-BOS route. You can’t fly commerci...
Jump to postIn the 1980s Memphis appeared on Pan Am's timetable by virtue of Air Atlanta, which had a close partnership with Pan Am. The planes at MEM were all Air Atlanta, but I remember seeing Pan Am World Services ground equipment there.
Jump to postCool. FedEx operates a similar flight MEM-DXB on a 777. It appears to be nonstop eastbound only; not sure if it's a "round the world" flight like the UPS one.
Jump to postThe former Eaker Air Force Base in Blytheville, AR served as a peak-period hub for the USPS for a brief period in the 1990s. It has an 11,500-foot runway, so would seem a good location for some type of cargo operation. Wikipedia mentions some outfit called USA Floral taking a lease at the facility t...
Jump to postJust a few flighrs will cross the path, apparently: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sci ... 493343001/
Jump to postI don't think any side of the aisle is gonna argue that Gerald Ford was exactly a great enough historical figure to get an airport named after him, but he was from Grand Rapids so the people from Grand Rapids want to honor the most important figure to ever come from/be associated with Grand Rapids....
Jump to postAmazing no one thought to take a picture of that green 747 during the brief period it wore those colors. The closest I've seen is a model of it. I always wondered why all the BN 747s wore the orange livery once they started taking on more of them in the late 1970s. As the story goes, the single oran...
Jump to postThere's a Facebook page called Braniff Flying Colors that has tons of good information, and regularly posts exhaustive studies of the airline's fleet through the years.
Jump to postBraniff had a single 747 for many years, and I don't think it went into revenue service until 1971. They surely never did HNL-STL as a scheduled service with 747s. They were supposed to get another (green) 747 but cancelled the order. Additional 747s and 747SPs came into the fleet post-deregulation.
Jump to postSkybus had an A319 carrying advertising for Nationwide Insurance.
Jump to postSure. Planes come over my house at around 24,000 feet and I can get pretty clear shots of them with a 400mm camere lens, which is the rough equivalent of a medium-power set of binoculars.
Jump to postIn terms of the way the aircraft ended up, it looks pretty similar to the FX MD-10 crash at MEM a few years ago.
In the 1990s they used them transcon; I flew one LAX-PHL.
Jump to postB1s are common airshow static display planes, so that would be a good route to explore. One was on display last month at the New York Airshow.
Jump to postAir Canada on BDL-YYZ is routinely $2000 r/t, on a coach-only Beech 1900D. Great Circle Mapper shows that route at 373 miles.
Jump to postI haven't uploaded in a while, but I seem to recall not too long ago some relaxation on the obstruction rule. The shot linked below has a fence obstruction, and I know in days of yore that would have constituted an immediate rejection. Is the fence a killer for this shot? Note this isn't a final edi...
Jump to postAmerican uses the A321 into BDL, and it's not uncommon for United to schedule a 739 in at various points during a year. Delta commonly subs 757s for smaller equipment (we've seen a number of these during the past week), and also sent in a 739 on Monday.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/fanofjets" class="quote" target="_blank">fanofjets</a> (<a href="#50" class="quote">Reply 50</a>):<br/><i>Honorable mention goes to the Pan Amer...
Jump to postThat thread is useful especially for iPhone users. The catch with a mobile phone is lack of any optical zoom capability. Even a tiny amount of digital zoom hugely diminishes the quality of an image. If you can find a mobile phone with optical zoom that would be good (iPhone 6s was rumored to get thi...
Jump to postYep, though I want to do a re-edit using Yang's suggestion. His version does look better than mine.
Jump to postThanks for the input, and especially to YQZ380 for the edit. Tough call on this one - the only reason I even bothered to upload it is the newsworthy/historic angle to it, being the first airline-operated A350 into the United States. I guess I'd hoped the newsworthy angle might be enough to overcome ...
Jump to postAs usual, when a big aviation even comes up, in come the clouds. This is particularly problematic at airports where overhead shots are about the only thing you can get. Qatar flew one of their A350s into <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York...
Jump to postQuite the flight track on this one - glad he's OK:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N30GZ
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Thanks for the info, still waiting to find a suitable subject. Getting close enough to a plane here in Connecticut is a tall challenge, but I'm on the hunt!
Jump to postCool! Can you two with posted iPhone pix detail your workflow and which camera app you used?
Jump to postI lived about 5 miles north of the approach end of <acronym title="Memphis - International (MEM / KMEM), USA - Tennessee">MEM</acronym>'s Runway 18R growing up, from 1975 until 1986. This meant I got to see firsthand the transition from Southern to Republic, though my parents moved to a different se...
Jump to postVery nice, gives me some inspiration! Finding a subject in the right position with the right light is the challenge...
Jump to postThe locomotive picture linked above was taken in much better lighting conditions. Unfortunately, when I visited the closest airport yesterday the planes that were oriented better for sun were too far away for the iPhone.
Jump to postNeat, thanks for the edit. I was only maybe 20 feet from that airplane and that was the best I could do to go full-frame without zooming. That alone will probably limit the usefulness of the phone for A.net shots; I'd hoped maybe it could replace my point-and-shoot for trips where I don't want to br...
Jump to postWell, I dunno about all this. I went out today with some nice sun and practiced on an airplane and a train. My first impression is that you have to be REALLY close to your subject to avoid zooming - and the shots where I did zoom look horrible. Second, I was worried about ISO; I didn't even need to ...
Jump to postAnother consideration here is zoom. Doing a Google search on "iPhone 6s optical zoom" nets me several news stories from January of this year that say iPhone 6s "may" have optical zoom. But that's all I can find, so I have to assume that feature didn't make the cut and the phone has digital zoom like...
Jump to postThanks for the replies. I just installed Camera+ and it seems to have most of the features I need, plus only costs $3. It seems a worthwhile app to have even if you're not trying for A.net shots. The 6s has a 12mp camera, but I guess the proof will be in the quality of the sensor. If it's sunny out ...
Jump to postSo after being an Android user for many years, and not particularly impressed with the camera feature on my Droid RazrM, I decided to go over to an iPhone 6s. I'm still getting used to the phone, and I understand the camera is supposed to be pretty good. Just in my initial fiddling around with it, t...
Jump to postNot sure about the stop, but just make sure Runway 31L is being used for departures before you go to all that effort. You stand a good chance that it will be, but you never know.
Jump to postCan someone confirm or debunk my understanding of the United-Aer Lingus Star Alliance relationship? If they hope to capture business travelers out of <acronym title="Windsor Locks (Hartford / Springfield) - Bradley International (BDL / KBDL), USA - Connecticut">BDL</acronym>, Aer Lingus will need to...
Jump to postI had some good times on TWA back in the mid 1990s. I was traveling weekly for work, and at that time if you didn't do a Saturday night stay, pretty much every airline charged full coach fare. This meant an average trip in coach was in the $1000 range. TWA had a promotion whereby if you paid full co...
Jump to postThere is a Facebook group called "Braniff Flying Colors" that has a wealth of information on the airline. According to them, Braniff actually announced the 767 in 1978 as the replacement for the DC-8. The 767-100 would have been used domestically as replacements for 727-200s on longer routes, and th...
Jump to postThat last edit did the trick - thanks again for all the advice! <br/><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/photo/USA---Air/Rockwell-B-1B-Lancer/2656441/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/photo/USA---Air/Rockwell-B-1B-Lancer/2656441/M/" target="_bl...
Jump to postSorry - wrong thread - mods please delete.
[Edited 2015-06-14 09:17:43]
Continued thanks on the feedback - I did some additional CCW. Hope it's not too far this time. This one is giving me fits for some reason, and normally I'd bag it. Unfortunately, I like B-1s too much to do that. <a href="http://www.airliners.net/addphotos/big/ready/c1433371056.4074b1_102_ain_3248_4....
Jump to postOK, there is a shed just in front of the intake, under the B-1. I leveled off that. Any better? Seems PS7 which I have requires 3rd party plug-ins to correct distortion. <a href="http://www.airliners.net/addphotos/big/ready/e1433285604.0114b1_102_ain_3248_2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.airliners....
Jump to postThanks for the feedback - I have an older version of Photoshop, so not sure if distortion correction is present. I'll do the CCW as recommended and leave a note for the screeners. We'll see how it shakes out.
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