IAD Afternoon 8/15

[JBoulin94]

I went down to get the South African A343 in the Olympics scheme. Luckily it came in on the nicest day in a long time, it ended up being a beautiful evening. No Ethiopian 787 from me, sorry! :biggrin:

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Full Set:
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[Zee71]

Very nice catch on the South African A340. Now if we could get it here at JFK.

[gonzalu]

Wow! OK so we can get it in IAD, so it's about as close as we can get to it :P Very nice catch... and congrats on the WX being cooperative. Lately it's been hit or miss ...

[JBoulin94]

Thanks Manny. I felt like this made up for the past couple of weeks I've had, where I'd be waiting for something to come in and a random cloud would come over as soon as it was coming by me! I was so glad to get the Olympic plane in nice light.

[gonzalu]

John, random cloud formations while spotting has a club. So far the membership is Cary and I but you're welcome to join it... it is free membership and all it requires is that you get really really really angry and curse the gods when it happens :cool:

Eric is forever banned from this club since he does not care so much about clouds and can turn any image into a work of art ... so, he is excluded :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:

[MarkLawrence]

John - those are awesome - you have my favorite South African in PERFECT light!!!!

[threeholerglory]

where was the special south african? the standard paint was at the gate when I was out there...would have loved to have caught that one!! great shots!!!

[heeshung]

These were take on the 16th.

[Cary]

Yup, these were 8/16. I stayed until sunset on 8/15, and got exactly ONE plane in full sun. Nice pics, John.

[Marcelo F. De Biasi]

Very nice! I hope to make it down to DC over the next few weeks. May be the weather be just as nice then :-)

[JBoulin94]

Haha, thanks for pointing out it was the 16th! Manny - I will gladly join unless it means it happens more to me (which at this point I don't think is possible). Thanks Cary, I was really bummed I didn't get picked to go down to the runway for the Ethiopian 787, but this really made up for it!

[MCO-LGA]

Great shots! Love the South African and Lufthansa shots especially