KMIA 8/17

[MarkLawrence]

Wife has to work tomorrow and son is going to play with a friend for the day....weather permitting (and it doesn't look too bad for tomorrow)....I think I'll head to the Holes at KMIA tomorrow (11am - 3pm) - anyone in the area want to join me?

[MarkLawrence]

WOW...what a day at KMIA!! Pictures will follow later (have a whole lot of editing to do)./...but...

Santa Barbara B757 new color scheme
Santa Barbara B752 white with Icelandic titles
Mexicana
El Al Beijing 2008 logo
A whole lot of TACA and Avianca
Arrow Cargo DC-8 and DC-10
Cargolux
Southern Air
Polar
Atlas
Copa


and the highlight of the day.....

American B752 with pink sash!

We got to shoot the El Al right in front of their security - they were in a good mood today - not chasing people off!


Ohh....and...Senga - Robert says Hi!

[kc2aqg]

Mark, that sounds like a fantastic variety! Can't wait to see the pics.

[tipek]

I'm waiting for the pictures too :)

Rafal

[MarkLawrence]

http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/arrowdc8.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/arrowdc10.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/atlas742.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/aviancab752.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/aviancab763.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/aviancamd80.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/az777.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/ba744.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/cargolux.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/cayman733.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/connie747.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/cr9dlconn.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/elalb762.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/iceland752.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/mexicana320.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/polar744.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/sba752.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/southern747titles.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/tacaa319.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/tacaa321.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/tacaperua319.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/tampacargo.jpg
http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/unitedexe170.jpg

And the star of the show for the day....

http://www.tavustheman.com/images/kmia/aab752pink.jpg

[AirtrafficController]

Wow great collection of aircraft Mark! Lucky catch on the AA too!

[Delta777LR]

Lucky catch on that AA bird.... Question, the Arrow Air DC-10, is that a 10 or 30 because I never knew that they had a series 10 in their fleet....

[adam613]

You got the Mythbusters plane!!!! (N700CK)

[tipek]

Very nice pictures.
This Arrow Air is DC-10-10. Its very hard to distinguish -10 from -30. The easiest one is DC-10-40 because they have humps on engine number two.

Rafal

[Delta777LR]

I never knew Arrow Air had any 10s. thanks for that Tipek

[Ari707]

easiest way to tell a 10 from a 30 is the extra center line landing gear on the 30s

[njgtr82]

Great shots Mark, lots of good stuff you got there.

[PhilDernerJr]

Nice stuff! I actually like the El Al 762 the best!

[MarkLawrence]

Forgot to add in the above...it was a great day spent with 3 new friends - Santiago Escobar from Columbia (moving to Dallas), Orlando Suarez from Venezuela and Roberto Collazzo from Miami (he's the one that knows Senga and a lot of others)...told them about the boards - hopefully get some new people on - if you guys do make it....it was great spotting with you yesterday!

[lijk604]

easiest way to tell a 10 from a 30 is the extra center line landing gear on the 30s

Exactly, that is the dead giveaway. No DC-10-10's have the center gear, all DC-10-30 (and 40) series have it.

To answer the next question, the center gear was added to distribute the extra weight that the 30 & 40 series can carry.

[Eddie.]

Awsome shots Mark!

Man now I'm kicking myself for not making it out. Something in the back of my head was telling me to go. :(

The AA with the pink sash is the new breast cancer awareness bird. A freind told me they should also be painting a T7 with it, and the 757 will be MIA based.