727 Amerijet at LGA Today

[Bellucciman]

I was at LGA this morning for about an hour and spotted this as I was just about to head home. As I was watching it's approach I was looking at the engines and thinking "that aint an MD"! Then I saw the engine in the center of the tail and yelled in the parking lot "That's a 727"! When I did that I figured someone was gonna call the cops! Was great to watch this approach and land on 31. This is the first 727 that I've photographed.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i242/Bellucciman/LGA_727_AmeriJet_N994AJ_01_21_07_13.jpg

[Tom_Turner]

Nice one!!! Glad you got it.

I wonder why LGA is getting a cargo aircraft. They don't really have facilities for that do they?

Tom

[cancidas]

airplane is out doing a zero-g flight as i type this, flight aware is a wonderful thing!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AJT206

[Bellucciman]

What's a zero G?

[cancidas]

they fly a parabola, accelerate nealy vertically then push over and decend just as steeply. that attitude, just at the top of the parabola gives you a few seconds of weight-lessness. you can do the same thing in any airplane as long as you fly it right!


by the way, the 727 decended from 27200 25400 feet in 1 minute, and then from 35000 to 25600 also in only 1 minute. somebnody was defiantely having more fun than me today!

[mirrodie]

What a lucky catch! Nice bank shot!

[PhilDernerJr]

Wow, really glad you were able to get that plane! Not enough people catch 727s in the Expressway Visual bank!! Good work!

[Bellucciman]

Thanks! And thanks for the explanation of the zero G. I forgot about the weightlessness thing. I thought that NASA was the only one that did that.

[nwafan20]

Yeah, it says "ZeroG" on it.

This is crazy (taken from the flightaware log)

02:27PM 40.47 -73.43 346 35000
02:28PM 40.38 -73.35 358 13400

35,000 to 13,4 in 1 minuite!!!

[cancidas]

somebody was definately having more fun than me today!