MCO - 3/2/2013 (Terminal Spotting and SFB)

[Zee71]

While waiting for my departure flight back home I was able to do a little spotting, unfortunately heat distoration killed these shots.







The remaining shots below were taken at Standford International Airport (about 25 miles north east of MCO) when I arrived on 2/24. After arriving at MCO I headed right for SFB. There is a nice park and area where the RA-5C sits on a pedestal near the edge of RWY 36. Unfortunately the main RWY is 9L/27R that seems to get the most use there. Allegiant looks like the main carrier there, and MTA Cargo. I did some scouting but was unsuccessful. I even pulled over Standard Air Police and asked about spotting locations. He informed me that basically the park where the RA-5 sits is the spot (but it's far from the main runway for any reasonable shot). I sure there are probably other locations (maybe next time I will some more scouting on the north side of the field). Looks like SFB gets some unique visitors as well as seen below.

This was the best shot I could get of this........she was tucked in, and drove around to see if I could get a better shot, but no luck!


During my scouting of the field came across this.....now I knew what part of the field I was in (who needs GPS's when you got tails!).


RA-5C

[threeholerglory]

wish I could see that Gulf Air up close...they had some of he most amazing schemes ever designed

[captmjk16]

Pretty cool stuff Mark, definitely different than what I'm used to.