JFK 04/06/2011 -- Air Force One
When I woke up this morning, the weather was absolutely perfect! Perfectly blue cloud-less skies. By 4:00pm, it had turned back to mud.
Air Force One took off from PHL a little early around 4:00pm. She showed up on approach around 4:50pm
I love these guys.. .they must still think they're flying F-15s... JFK was on the 22s with a somewhat strong gust but, AF1 picked the expected shortest path to the ramp, 31L. At around 5DME she made a hard left turn and came in really fast, faster than all other 747s ever come in to 31L. It only slowed down around 1 DME.
5 DME
http://manny.smugmug.com/Airplanes/S...55_5v7LS-O.jpg
2 DME
http://manny.smugmug.com/Airplanes/S...66_N5k6Z-O.jpg
1/2 DME
http://manny.smugmug.com/Airplanes/S...68_yJcSa-O.jpg
Landing. Sorry about the fence... I tried to go as far to the right of Innwood to get the tower in the shot. But that can only be done through chain-link.
http://manny.smugmug.com/Airplanes/S...99_JVaNg-O.jpg