DTW 2.24.08 *56K NO*

[nwafan20]

Well, I had a great weekend this week spotting wise. I went spotting on both Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately I haven't had any editing time, and still have to edit a lot from last weekend. I decided to do a few from Sunday. I didn't get to go through all my shots to find the best ones, so I just choose a few. Gotta love that late afternoon Mac Deck light!

Off-airport shots:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408250.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408180.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408166.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408097.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408086.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408071.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408046.jpg

Some McNamara deck shots:

Gotta love the light on this one:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408706.jpg

Hope I don't see too many of these things soon:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408791.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408775.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408458.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408491.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408765.jpg

Catch of the day, one of only 2 Fokker 70's in the United States (both owned by Ford) Ford Fokker F70:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408478.jpg

late night gate shot (hand held):
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408875.jpg

A330 departure into sun:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408648.jpg


I'm sure there will be more later when I get to editing them, as well as some shots from Saturday!

[Iberia A340-600]

I love the light on the afternoon departures! Nice silhouette shot of the A330 there.

[nwafan20]

Thanks Gordon

Oh, forgot to mention, We went into the Smith terminal to eat and I hear over the PA "The checkpoints are now open, please make your way to them in an orderly fashion so we can get everyone re-screened as quickly as possible", apperently they evacuated due to a faulty x-ray that they didn't notice for 10 minutes so they actually had to bring planes back to the gate and deplane everyone to re-screen. That was interesting, and after that, around 5:15, we saw the fire brigade line up next to runway 21L at their various spots and in comes a CRJ with no flaps, he comes in hot, nice landing, slams the breaks, fire brigade follows down the runway etc.

Here are some emergency shots, the fire brigade wasn't in a tight formation, there were about 5 fire trucks, 3 ambulances, and 3 fire pick up trucks and a police car:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408830.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p75/nwafan20/MTDTWSpotting22408846.jpg

[SengaB]

Nice shots there. Thats NWA DC-9 looks like a day shot :)

Senga

[nwafan20]

which one? The one at the gate? The one at the gate wasn't, that was almost completely dark. High shutter speed, High ISO, low app. and lots of photoshop haha

[MarkLawrence]

Great shots Matt!!

[AirtrafficController]

Good Work Matt. The light is really nice :borat: