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    What planes do you want to photograph in 2006?

    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)

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    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

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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ari707
    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.

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    they don't mention them on their web site
    Overheard on JFK TOWER - S Turns are fine, U-Turns are bad....

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ari707
    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    How about me in a Cesna?! LOL

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