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Aviation & Aircraft Photo Discussion Thread *Mod Warning Post 1*

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    #842
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,919 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I thought the 757s were going for freighter conversion - are they just too old? or too many younger ex-passenger aircraft available now due to covid?

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #843
    goingnowhere
    Registered Users Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    LBT was scrapped, the remaining 3 seem to be stored but who knows


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    #844
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Saw this yesterday in Africa, phone photo isn’t clear enough to see the registration but I think that I can see a Phoenix sign on the tail. Any ideas if they have more than one aircraft painted like this?

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    #845
    Skyknight
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭Skyknight


    Hmmm....Phoenix Air non-scheduled airline headquartered in Cartersville, Georgia. Might be N173PA. 'As of 14 October 2014, two Phoenix Air Gulfstreams were able to carry Ebola patients, and another jet was being equipped in a simialar manner.'(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Air)


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    #846
    smurfjed
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    That was my initial guess, but a medical flight seemed out of context for when I saw it.


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    #847
    Skyknight
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭Skyknight


    ;) It seems that N173PA was through EIDW on the 15th April last.


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    #848
    EchoIndia
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    Flight history can be seen here: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N173PA


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    #849
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Aha that makes sense, Sudan is probably the first place that it was tracked and I saw it to the southwest of there.


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    #850
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Some randoms from the last week or so.

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    #851
    de biz
    Registered Users Posts: 526 ✭✭✭de biz


    N'Djamena?
    Nice runabout for the DRC that 900.


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    #852
    smurfjed
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    Good guess :):)


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    #853
    de biz
    Registered Users Posts: 526 ✭✭✭de biz


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Good guess :):)

    A good send off!


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    #854
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    It was an interesting day, way more planes than the airport was capable of handling, so total chaos. Was back there since and it was much quieter :)

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    #855
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Some lovely photos in this article. I think that the only other pictures I ever saw published for a B747 interior was for the Sultan of Brunei’s B744.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-business-jet-747-8i-private-photos-interior-2020-3?r=US&IR=T#the-centerpiece-of-the-jet-is-the-salon-on-the-main-floor-with-three-couches-a-coffee-table-and-vaulted-ceilings-21


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    #856
    smurfjed
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    Africa is a fun place for finding strange aircraft :)

    Not too many of these flying these days

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    Italian Air Force KC767, I believe.

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    #857
    WishUWereHere
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    de biz wrote: »
    N'Djamena?
    Nice runabout for the DRC that 900.


    Eritrea, I'd guess?


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    #858
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    That indigo VT-IHL is only 16 years old.

    Are 320's that common now that its cheaper to scrap them than trying to re-lease them?


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    #859
    Blue Punto
    Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Blue Punto


    There are so many A320s out there available to potential purchasers/lessors that when an airframe comes up for what is prob a major check as I suspect this one was its more financially viable to part it out.


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    #860
    Turbulent Bill
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    Love the IL-62 opening the thrust reversers before touchdown, it's a great party trick.


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    #861
    Hotblack Desiato
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    :eek: I just happened to be reading about that Lauda Air crash today

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #862
    Skyknight
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭Skyknight


    Turbulent Bill wrote: »
    Love the IL-62 opening the thrust reversers before touchdown, it's a great party trick.


    DC-8's (to the 60 series) Dc-9's and C-17...Nasa's Gulfstream has been also been modified (I think) to enable to deploy the reverses inflight. Still a good trick mind


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    #863
    smurfjed
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    JUBA South Sudan, really like a working museum

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    #864
    smurfjed
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    Is this the worlds biggest helicopter?

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    #865
    zone 1
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭zone 1


    it landed in chad at our camp some size


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    #866
    Foggy43
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    A Dub in Glasgow: 'ZZ177 over my house 10 minutes ago Edinburgh to Northolt'

    I do like the 'Registration'. I took me a while to work out what they had done. Looking at it another way and you get LLIZZ (Elizabeth) I'm sure it was intentional given the current circumtances.



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    #867
    Lustrum
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Lustrum


    @smurfjed do you happen to know who is flying those Ilyushin 76s around in that part of the world? Are they local pilots or Russians? I'd love to know where they do their recurrent sims!!



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    #868
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Absolutely no idea, but in the middle band of africa there are a lot of them flying for the UN, i therefore think that they must have some type of oversight. Assuming that only sims are in Russia and Ukraine so training must be on the aircraft.


    It appears that Iran has one and there is an add-on for MSFS :)



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