What planes do you want to photograph in 2006?

[jakbar]

What planes do you really want to photograph in 2006? For me, there are a lot, but here are a few that come to mind immediately:

1) DL 767-200 "Spirit of Delta" (in nice dawn/dusk light)
2) Alaska 737-400 "Salmon Thirty Salmon"
3) World Airways retro jet
4) AA 737-800 "Astrojet"
5) Trump's 727 departing/arriving
6) Wunala Dreaming (in nice light, not hazy summer weather like last time)

[T-Bird76]

1. L1011 from ATA, I'd love to get the one in the old old colors
2. Shamu at ISP
3. Slam Dunk One
4. U.S Airways 757 in new colors
5. PanAm 727
6. AA 757 with winglets
7. A380

[jakbar]

1. L1011 from ATA, I'd love to get the one in the old old colors
2. Shamu at ISP
3. Slam Dunk One
4. U.S Airways 757 in new colors
5. PanAm 727
6. AA 757 with winglets
7. A380

Those are all good choices, too! I guess I'll have my hands full this year. :)

[Ari707]

ATA still has L1011 I thought they had 737's and 757s???

[Futterman]

In no particular order:

1. Wunala Dreaming
2. China Airlines Dreamliner
3. ATA L1011
4. VH-OEC, VH-OEB, N317TZ, N333TZ, N510JB, N643DL, N179JB, N183JB (planes I've flown on)
5. An Ilyushin, Tupolev, and/or Antonov
6. Spirit of Delta
7. American 738 and 752 with winglets
8. A380
9. Anything Northwest! :)

Brian

[T-Bird76]

ATA still has L1011 I thought they had 737's and 757s???

Yes ATA still has a decent sized fleet of L1011s that is uses for military and holiday charter. There was talk of acquiring 767s to replace the L1011s but ATA decided for cost reasons to keep the L1011s. A large part of ATA's turn around plan relies on the constant military traffic to and from the Mid East which should provide them strong source of revenue for some time to come.

[Ari707]

they don't mention them on their web site

[eric8669]

1. Another Wunala shot
2. China Dreamliner
3. Spirit of Delta
4. AA Retrojet
5. Cathay "World City"
6. Thai A346
7. Varig MD-11 Star Alliance.

[T-Bird76]

they don't mention them on their web site

They aren't in scheduled service, that's why they don't mention them. ATA seat chats are screwy. They show the 737-700 which I assumed was for their Southwest code-share but the seats don't match up WN's cabin layout.

[Steven Holzinger]

This list is pretty much a realistic list of planes I want to photograph this year...


Military:
1. ANY F-14 TOMCAT
2. F-22A Raptors
3. VFC-12 Hornets before they transition to VFA-12
4. Any and all QF-4 Phantoms in the Heritage Flights
5. VFA-31, VFA-32, VFA-213 F/A-18F Super Hornets
6. VFA-143 F/A-18E Super Hornets
7. C-5 Galaxy ops out of Dover AFB
8. C-17s out of McGuire AFB
9. Air Force One
10. Air Force Two
11. NJ ANG F-16s
12. NJ ANG KC-135Es
13. McGuire or Travis KC-10s
14. B-52 Stratofortress in flight
15. CF-18 Hornet
16. C-40 Clipper
17. Any Hornets that go into Willow Grove
18. E-2C Hawkeyes
19. EA-6B Prowlers
20. S-3B Vikings

Civillian:
1. Spirit of Delta 767
2. US Airways New Colors A319
3. US Airways New Colors A320
4. US Airways New Colors A321
5. US Airways New Colors A330
6. US Airways New Colors 757
7. US Airways New Colors 767
8. American Airlines Retrojets
9. US Airways Retrojets
10. Continental Airlines 777 "Peter Max"
11. jetBlue!!! (just kidding...okay maybe I wasn't)
12. Any and all Mad Dogs I see
13. A380 in any livery
14. All 747s I see
15. All A340s I see, especially A340-500 and A340-600
16. Antonov An-124
17. Antonov An-225
18. America West special paint schemes
19. Southwest Airlines special paint schemes
20. Any Frontier Airlines aircraft

[Mr Smith]

what is it about Wunala?

for me, nice shot of Hibiscus would be nice, prefer to get both of them

everything Russian, off to Russia in october so that'll be something special, Russian military and the A380.

[Nycfly75]

How about me in a Cesna?! LOL

[PhilDernerJr]

I want to get:

- AA Astrojet (properly this time)
- ATA L-1011 (side note: ATA has 4 or 5 left. one. is a -500 and the others are -100s, operaitng military charters)
- Spirit of Delta 767-200 N102DL
- A380

[NIKV69]

Shamu at ISP? Who is bailing you out of the SCPD lockup? Maybe Joe Grant but then he may make you erase the picture like the security at ISP does.

I would love to get the Cancer awareness Song before its gone. A Shamu as well.

[FlyingColors]

ANY commercial jetliner WITHOUT getting harassed...............priceless!!!

[lijk604]

My list....if I'm active enough should get at least half of 'em.

1) Cathay Pacific A346
2) Thai A345
3) Alaska 737-400 "Salmon Thirty Salmon"
4) Southwest Shamu (I dont care which airport it's at)
5) any 757 with winglets
6) Continental B738 with winglets
7) a USAF C17
8) Air Canada E190
9) Air Canada CRJ705
10) F-22 Raptor....this one is my stretch.

John

[Tower Air]

boys i saw this in the airliners.net forum but the ATA L 1011's are in storage in mojave. i can't find the thread.

[jran225]

Towerair,

TZ does indeed have some Tristars in storage, but as Phil pointed out, they still use four -500s and one -100 for military charters. They used to come into BWI on a daily basis, but unfortunately that isn't the case anymore, seeing that they've lost their AMC contract here. The best place to bag them is probably at DFW.

Regards,
-Omar S. :)

[Iberia A340-600]

Here's my list:

Thai A340-500 at JFK
Virgin atlantic A340-600 at JFK
ANA 777-300ER at JFK
Northwest A330-300 at EWR
Northwest DC-10 at EWR
KLM 777-200 at EWR

I am heading down to SJU and SXM for Spring break and I hope to see some nice planes down there as I usually do!

[UrbanExplorer222]

747-200SP
L1011
Express.net 727
Virgin 340-600
Trump 727 on the move!
AeroMexico 767
EOS 757
MaxJet 767 (in the sun!)

[SengaB]

For me,
I got it on feb 9th!
Polish Air Force TU-154!
Now I have to come up with some others. But right now I can't think of anything.

Senga