CLT 7/14,16/13 [Image Heavy]
7/14
On the way down to visit family in SC I had to spend some time at the Charlotte overlook...
The sky seemed a little iffy but it mostly cooperated:
One of the first arrivals was this 767 operating as flight 803 from Sao Paulo smacking runway 18C.
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The very next departure was another 767 operating flight 748 to Madrid.
I love the angles you can get from this overlook, especially head-on shots.
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This was the first time I was able to take my dog Riley airplane spotting. He actually seemed to enjoy it! Watching/listening to the planes
and smelling the burnt rubber while wagging his tail the whole time :)
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The Carolina Panthers logojet headed for runway 23 but at least I got a nice backdrop of the city...
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Then to my surprise a DC-9 came in with an MD-80 holding...
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By this time Lufthansa had pulled up and I noticed everyone with a scanner jump up and looked on final, I knew it had to be something good.
Thats when I saw a NC ANG C-130 coming in. (I was really hoping to catch one of them here!)
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Flight 429 heading out to Munich...
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...and the lady making it all possible ;)
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Piedmont 4127 from Tri-Cities Rgnl zooming in.
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A PSA CRJ passes the PSA logojet.
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The PSA logojet was really happy to see Continental titles!
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An E-145 still with COA titles lines up for departure as flight 4740 to Cleveland.
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Flight 720 heads to the runway as one of the US Airways Star Alliance A319s approaches runway 23.
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Flight 720 sporting a sharks-fin, cruising down runway 18C for Rome.
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A very chipped radome...
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An American Eagle E-145 meets a company CRJ.
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Jazz 7925 heads down the runway for Toronto.
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By this time the rain clouds were headed closer and closer to the airport but with a little luck I saw the DC-9 taxiing out for departure;
the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ;)
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Rocketing into the clouds
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Just after her departure it began to pour so we left...
7/16
On the way back north I stopped by the overlook again (of course).
One of the first things I noticed was another Continental titled Embraer at the gates!
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The PSA logojet gliding in.
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Head on with Lufthansa!
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Flight 429 heading to Munich. Is that brake-dust the accrued after the nearly 2 mile taxi to runway 18c?
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And to my surprise another Continental Embraer came in! Wow, what is this, 2011!?
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Then around 6pm a news van showed up. They were there for the lead story, whos going to have control of CLT...
http://www.wbtv.com/category/240205/...autostart=true
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Right after they stopped filming the evening FedEx flight arrived.
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Flight 721 arriving from Rome.
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Looking down a very crowded taxiway echo; consisting of 4 CRJs, 2 A320s, 1 MD80 and 1 757.
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Then I left and as I got on I-485 I spotted the Panthers logojet headed for runway 18R, taken out of the sunroof.
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Since I haven't been to PHL in almost a year the US Airways traffic more than made up for my hiatus ;)
Hope you enjoyed!
