A Weekend in the Metroplex-KAFW, KNFW, KLNC, KDFW (Image Heavy)
Hello All,
Time for another installment from me. This time I was back in Fort Worth for the long weekend, and decided to get some impressive amounts of shooting in before classes get too heavy. After a red-eye bus from Austin on Thursday night, I was set and raring to go at Alliance come Friday morning.
Sadly...the traffic wasn't so cooperative. Talk about a slow morning, but images were still to be had!
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And pretty much everything Bell Helicopter owned flew that morning
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This Canadian visitor was a nice surprise
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And the local FAA King Airs are always a nice treat
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Volga was loading their weekly cargo of 747 components
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This C-40 beat up the pattern for about 30 minutes, which was a pleasant diversion from the quiet morning
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The runway at the Naval Air Station in Ft Worth had been closed all August, prompting the Spads (our local F-16 reserve outfit) to relocate to Alliance. With the runway having opened Thursday afternoon, I got to see the final F-16s depart for home. By this time I had been joined by a good friend of mine who had traveled down from Chicago, Sadly the light was...poor. So pardon the bad shots of these 2.
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From here, we decided to try our luck at the just re-opened Naval Air Station...