SengaB
2008-07-02, 10:46 PM
Greetings, I went to CEF today to get a shot of NASA's U-2/ER-2. Built in 1952. It flew for the Air Force as 52-1576 now for NASA as N809NA. It arrived Monday evening from EDW. Today it flew CEF to CEF for about 3 hours. It was a very memorable experience to see this aircraft in action. I must say that it was screaming pretty loudly as it flew by. As it departed out the pilot was getting his instructions to climb through 40,000ft for 60,000ft! Not something you hear everyday- especially within 10 mins!
Also several C-5s were doing touch and goes at CEF. Performing several types of landings, highspeed flybys steep turns and landing configurations. On the first C-5 shot this aircraft made an emergency landing on runway 23 wich resulted in the U-2 circling for a bit and then landing onrunway 33 and almost causing me to miss the U-2 arrival and I was expecting a runway 23 approach.
After getting back home I dumped the card onto the PC and headed down to JFK to shoot the Air Comet A340-300 that I missed last week.
Thanks Tom, Bill for the assistance with getting the U-2!
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/u201.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/u202.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/u203.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/c5emergency.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/c503.jpg
The Kam Air 767-200 was in the exact position it was yesterday when I was at CEF.
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/kfrsmall.jpg
Senga
Also several C-5s were doing touch and goes at CEF. Performing several types of landings, highspeed flybys steep turns and landing configurations. On the first C-5 shot this aircraft made an emergency landing on runway 23 wich resulted in the U-2 circling for a bit and then landing onrunway 33 and almost causing me to miss the U-2 arrival and I was expecting a runway 23 approach.
After getting back home I dumped the card onto the PC and headed down to JFK to shoot the Air Comet A340-300 that I missed last week.
Thanks Tom, Bill for the assistance with getting the U-2!
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/u201.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/u202.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/u203.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/c5emergency.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/c503.jpg
The Kam Air 767-200 was in the exact position it was yesterday when I was at CEF.
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/kfrsmall.jpg
Senga