The airplane picture thread.

[Guest]

17 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

My mother "flew" on one of these when she was six, on a vacation flight to Crimea:

I say "flew" because one of the engines actually ignited while on the taxiway, so her and my grandmother had to wait in the heat for like 4 hours before they were herded off the plane and sent back home. I can say the trip didn't go that well.

EDIT: and by the way this was before any of them knew about the Tu-104's crappy safety record. Obviously. The USSR even covered that up.

Interesting.

[Dfthu]

A very rare Air Transat charter flight from Stockholm. Hope they start flights to MSP.

A Delta B777-200 from the T1 Parking Garage.

Duel B767-300s, Condor and Iceland Air.

A dark and cloudy day for this Delta A319.

Deicing a Delta B757-200

[PakledHostage]

2 hours ago, Dfthu said:

A very rare Air Transat charter flight from Stockholm. Hope they start flights to MSP.

It would have been kinda neat if your photo had been the one that they glided into Lajes Air Force Base in the Azores after it ran out of fuel, but it isn't. I believe it was fin number 102 (C-GITS) that made that landing. They were still operating it the last time I saw it, a few years ago.

Edited January 8, 2018 by PakledHostage
102, not 104 per Airliners.net database

[Dfthu]

1 hour ago, PakledHostage said:

It would have been kinda neat if your photo had been the one that they glided into Lajes Air Force Base in the Azores after it ran out of fuel, but it isn't. I believe it was fin number 102 (C-GITS) that made that landing. They were still operating it the last time I saw it, a few years ago.

Yes I wished, the one that landed was C-GITS while mine was C-GTSI

Also I have a YouTube where I upload planespotting videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVfI5UsJolqrMs8eiYXYbVw

[DDE]

The transformation, it begins...

 

[Dfthu]

2 hours ago, DDE said:

-Snip-

Is that real? What would be the point of that be, a test?

[XB-70A]

9 minutes ago, Dfthu said:

Is that real? What would be the point of that be, a test?

Yep, we can easily recognize the Progress D-27 propfan which is equipping the An-70s. The aircraft here is one of the LL variant used by the GFR Institute of Zhukovsky.

[DDE]

1 hour ago, Dfthu said:

Is that real? What would be the point of that be, a test?

It’s a testbed, there’s imagery of that aircraft with all sorts of engines on that pylon.

And now for something not completely different.

[Dfthu]

Speaking of engine ferrys I like this one of the L-1011 https://goo.gl/images/j6MBSR (sorry I'm on mobile with no imgur)

Edited January 8, 2018 by Dfthu

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Dfthu said:

Speaking of engine ferrys I like this one of the L-1011 https://goo.gl/images/j6MBSR (sorry I'm on mobile with no imgur)

FAKE!

[Dfthu]

20 minutes ago, dundun93 said:

FAKE!

The A.net thread has a guy that worked with L-1011 and he said they did it

[XB-70A]

10 days of break gave me the opportunity to discover Florida a bit more (still I didn't go to Pensacola), and to go to different memorials and static displays. It was a great occasion to see some aircraft by myself for the first time, here are some:

 

The B-52D (56-0687) resting at KMCO:

 

The RA-5C standing at KSFB:

I don't know why, but this [picture gave me the impression to see it flying low of the Vietnam moist forest.

 

 

 

The F-15A of DeBary Memorial Park:

The pylon is horrible, alas.

 

 

An F-16A also is standing in Pinellas Park:

 

 

And a beautiful and rare piece, the F-106A of Camp Blanding:

 

 

[Dfthu]

A rare Virgin Atlantic comes in for maintenance at the Delta Facility

A Sun Country B737 takes off

A Delta B737 takes off

A Delta MD-90 lands, shrouded in a cloud

A accidental close up shot of Delta MD-90 taking off

[XB-70A]

Took about three weeks ago at LFPG:

I know it seems like it's a fake one. We took it a couple a minutes after having landed, as we stopped at the inner runway holding mark I waited with the camera for an aircraft to appear, and this China Southern A332 suddenly showed up, too fast for the camera to focus precisely on it.

[Abpilot]

On 07/01/2018 at 5:04 PM, dundun93 said:

You took those pictures?

No

 

[Dfthu]

Dusk shots are best, they look so good in the orange lights. Anyways here is 3 planes on MSP approach.

A Delta B757-200 taxies to RWY 17

A Sprit A320 "Pixel" livery lands.

A United ERJ-175 taxies to RWY 17

A Minnesota Air National Guard C-130 Lands

[Guest]

38 minutes ago, Dfthu said:

Dusk shots are best, they look so good in the orange lights. Anyways here is 3 planes on MSP approach.

A Delta B757-200 taxies to RWY 17

A Sprit A320 "Pixel" livery lands.

A United ERJ-175 taxies to RWY 17

A Minnesota Air National Guard C-130 Lands

Sooo nice!

[Nibb31]

Look what rolled out of the Airbus factory next to my home.

It's the Airbus A330 Beluga XL. This is the first of a new series that is set to replace the fleet of of 5 A300-600ST Belugas used by Airbus for transport between its manufacturing sites.

The new Beluga XL can carry 52 tons of oversized cargo, with a larger cargo area that nearly doubles the payloads it can carry. The fuselage width is 8.8 m.

The old fleet will progressively be retired and possibly sold to private contractors for specialized transport, like the Antonov fleet.

Edited January 12, 2018 by Nibb31

[Dfthu]

5 hours ago, Nibb31 said:

 

My god those oversized racon eyes is so ugly

Edited January 11, 2018 by Dfthu

[Delay]

These just look so strange...

[Nibb31]

17 hours ago, Dfthu said:

My god that oversized racon eyes is so ugly

Yeah, I don't like the paint scheme on the XL. It's supposed to make it look like a beluga whale, but it looks just wrong IMO. For me visually, I don't see the eyes and the smile, it looks more like it has a mask over the windshield.

These planes usually get new paint jobs every couple of years anyway.

 

16 hours ago, Delay said:

These just look so strange...

You get used to them when you see them every day. Form follows function. The design is rather elegant when you look at it that way.

Edited January 12, 2018 by Nibb31

[XB-70A]

6 hours ago, Nibb31 said:

 

So nice. I don't know why, but strangely, I just love the Belugas and the Guppys which preceded them, but my favorite of all will stay the CL-44 based Skymonster.

They even haunt my coffee...

 

Plus, the choice of the Trent 700 will bring a new and nice buzzy melody.

[Dfthu]

A very bad picture that shows a very rare sight, A Delta B737 with a white Rudder. Apparently it was struck by lighting in Seattle.

A Iceland Air B757-200 "Eldborg" taxies to T2.

A AA MD-80 shows its buckets on landing.

A Delta B757-300 taxies right towards RWY 17

A FedEx MD-10 lands.

 

Also here is my latest YouTube Video

 

Edited January 12, 2018 by Dfthu

[Dfthu]

A Delta MD-90 is close to landing

Delta B757-200 "Sprit of Freedom"

A United ERJ-135 taxis to RWY 17

The new and old AA

A rare RWY 4/22 Takeoff with a Delta B777-200.

[Dfthu]

A Condor B767-300 takes off after sunset

A Delta A330-300 Taxies by

Air France A340-300 leaves for France

Air France starts its takeoff roll

A Delta 737 in Skyteam livery