Sorry no pics to add but lots of great ones from you folks so far, looking fwd to more. I ended up arriving much later than planned around 1400, but as always I had a great time. This was actually around my 7th or 8th Kids Day, when we started US brought a Shuttle 727 followed by a few years of the 734, and this was our 4th year displaying the A-319. It was great seeing lots of old friends and fellow photoags, and meeting Vidiot, Winglets 747, and G-BOAD.
Starting on Thursday my very cool boss Lou and I started discussing requests from the Port Authority about bringing over one of "those cool Special Scheme planes we see all the time" so after some reconsidertion Lou and I started sending e-mails and making phone calls. The end result was N744P and literally 30 mins after we got approval for the aircraft swap mid-day Friday her APU died in BOS and that really complicated things. But thanks to some great folks in our MTC department and the ramp they agreed to "go the extra mile" as bringing over an aircraft without an APU caused both groups extra work and effort, Thanks Everybody. And BTW late Friday night after tearing down and evaluating the APU the proper parts where ordered. she was closed back up, then after Kids Day with the new parts in LGA the APU repairs where complete and she had a full day of Shuttle flying Sunday with a fully functioning APU. I kept 744's appearance quiet hoping she would not get swapped out at the last minute, and also thought it would be a nice surprise ! And in case your curious plan B would have been N749US.
Something very cool a lot of you may have missed was the departure of the Sky-Topper Texans. I had just exited the back of the C-130 when two took off from 31 in close formation and banked left and passed directly over our location low and loud. About 45 seconds later the other two repeated the cool flyover. About 5 mins later all 4 in tight formation flew down closed Runway 4 at about 50 feet altitude with a little smoke show. Very, Very Cool.
Thanks for reading and already looking forward to next year.
Cheers
LGA777
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