Greetings,
Israeli AF 4X-ISR B763 is pinging on the the ground at LLBG as XA001. It should be in and around NYC in the late morning.
Update: IAF B763 has departed LLBG.
Senga
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Greetings,
Israeli AF 4X-ISR B763 is pinging on the the ground at LLBG as XA001. It should be in and around NYC in the late morning.
Update: IAF B763 has departed LLBG.
Senga
Two C-17s left. A third rejected takeoff a few minutes later and has since departed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbluflyermatt
Hi Mario,
I had the same problem yesterday and spent 10-15 mins with Mark going over about where it was located. I updated my signature yesterday. Probably should change my Avatar as well. I haven't logged in for a while and it seems the interface is not functioning properly. It was never easy and it seems it been misconfigured since the last time (years ago I logged in). Now you have to do the following:
1) At the top right next to "Welcome" click on your NAME.
2) On the left hand side in the middle of the page next to "Friends" click on the Pencil/Crayon Icon.
3) Options for Avatar and Signature and many other features are on the left side (center)
Senga
wow I would've never gotten there! Thanks Senga, and that B720 avatar is awesome
I have to think of what plane to put in mine, but anyways. There are some regular aircraft that didn't show up this year, I can think of the Nigeria 737 (which got replaced by a A330 in bizjet-style minimalist garbage livery. I saw Milei's speech made the news but I don't see Argentina's presidential 757 mentioned here
Kyrgystan shows up after a million years, in an ugly-liveried A320.. Brunei has a so-so corporate livery that's not my style either on their 748
The Turkish A345 showed up again after not coming since.. 2017?
Hi Mario,
Yea too I was shocked to see the lack of regular yearly visitors that did not bring their own aircraft this year. They just didn't bring their planes and instead used the cooperate jet charters like Royal Jet, Vistajet, Gain Jet and Qatar Executive etc. I could not believe the sheer number of Qatar Executive GLFs that showed up this year. This UNGA VIP Week 2024 was/is probably the worst or the second worst UNGA I have participated in since starting in 2002. Over all with each passing year the UNGA arrivals has become less and less impressive. As a side note I will add the NYC, NJ "Aviation Photography Black hole" area these days (over the last 8 or so years maybe 2015-2016) has been on a downward spiral overall as we rarely get interesting or of value anymore. Everything just flies over or around NYC, NJ nearly 4 hours or more in all directions. Throughout the last several years the UNGA used to be our sole opportunity to make up what for what is usually another lackluster or at best mediocre year of useless special liveries (Stickers) and a handful of new types for airlines. Now the UNGA is falling into that same state of just garbage NYC movements.
Although painfully Generic and sterile I did manage to pull of some shots of Israel's 767. The IAF 767 is controversial within Israel so I wanted to get it just in case it gets grounded again.
I was disappointed Kyrgyzstan finally comes back and they bring that A320. Its too bad they never flew in the government T154. I kept wishing it would come but it never did. However if you recall I did get shots of the Airline painted Turned VIP Aircraft for them during UNGA 2005. I missed the arrival because of very bad Solar flares that were causing scanner interference so it was impossible to hear.
LYN001
https://www.flickr.com/photos/avioph...otolist-dxQb3a
Yea those Brunei 747 frames no matter what they bring are Meh- just more Winnebago type scheme that I don't care for. I did appreciate the A340 and 767 they occasionally thew our way.
Senga
I remember driving down Rockaway Type one day in 2004/2005 and just as I got close to 22L a Tu-154 with a red tail flew by right in front of us, I struggled to read the titles but it went by too fast. I about had a fit in the car and my ex thought I was nuts. Back then I knew nothing about UN Week. I spent a long time researching what I thought I saw and eventually settled on it being the Altyn Air. At least now I can connect it to the old Kyrgyzstan transport :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SengaB
Senga I know you were bored out of your skull this year, I also felt let down given what we got used to seeing 10-15 years ago, but I'd be a baldfaced liar if I said I wasn't totally stoked to see the tail logo of IRAQI AIRWAYS through my lens after first seeing a picure of one of their 747's back in 1984 as a kid. That made my day dude.
Keep your chin up! If we ever get a visit from Aliens I know you'll be the guy to catch those arrivals! :)
Great seeing everyone again after being away a couple years. Thanks again to Matt for the updates as usual
William
Yes Senga when I found out about the BORING new Kyrgystan A320 I went and looked at your Altyn Air Tu-154, there's no comparison - this new A320's bare white fuselage with that WEIRD bird head which looks like a meme sticking out of the tail - looks embarrassing compared to the sharp paintscheme of the Tupolev back in 2005. Kyrgystan govt recently retired their recent Tu-154 which looked quite nice with its red fuselage stripe and interesting tail logo, and with that gone so are the chances of seeing another Tupolev at UNGA.
Winnebago schemes LOLOL:biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by SengaB
IMO they barely deserve a shot. The new Nigeria A330 (which didn't show up) fits the corporate winnebago category. Shame they didn't apply the green-striped livery of the 737 they used to bring, would've looked stunning. As far as Brunei, they do have a 787 in the good, old livery but ochre instead of yellow; hasn't seen the UNGA yet.
alien arrivals LOLOL :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by megatop412
Just imagine all the interesting UN visitors in the early 2000's that weren't recorded because of the whole security theater after Sept '01 which ultimately was used to make the sheeple used to vanishing constitutional freedoms under the guise of "keeping us safe". And there were good obedient sheep who gave excuses on the a.net forums in those days for the gestapo tactics, sadly. While 20-something years later things are easier, by now the most interesting subjects are long gone. Today is 99% narrowbody Airbuses, BBJs and bizjets poop.
Interesting note, apparently Milei/Argentina delegation flew private instead of their 757 - this would mark the first year the UNGA doesn't see a 757
2024 had few standout visitors but on the flip side, some which tend to come in at night showed up in daylight, such as the Iraqi and Vietnam. Turkish A345 hadn't been seen since 2017.
Every year I marvel at the stuff that arrives for UN week .. and .. every time I say.. next year, next year, but it is wonderful to see all the movements .. thank for all for posting everything .. it's great to see the names and .. some old ones returning! Welcome back too NYCA Senga!!
Yo!!! I haven't posted in a while but love to come back to this from time to time.
Life gets in the way but the UNGA lives on. Im just happy to spot a few at FRG. Luckily saw the Czech AF again, a fave of mine.
Also maybe a Malta bird?
Anyhoo, hope to catch uo with y'all soon!
Czech govt A319 used to go to JFK every year. For me it's still one of the nicest vip paintschemes on a 319/320
Sorry for the late reply.
Its great to see lots of the old guard on NYCA, it brings back lots of good memories :) It would be great if NYCA was a meeting place again for the locals outside of the UNGA.
Megatop,
I wonder if that was the same arrival of the Kyrgyzstan T154 that I missed at JFK's 22L that morning during the UNGA. It just sat there at the Hanger 19 area unshootable all day long and departed well into the afternoon-early evening off of 13R. BTW this aircraft did come in one time a few months before into JFK. I do recall someone spotting it but no pix. It was on some other new York Area aviation related site. I forgot what that site was though.
As you mentioned things are pretty uninspiring these days during the UNGA. I used to get pumped up and excited about the start of the UNGA but now I just count the days now until its ends so I can get back to doing other things. Luckily with the onset of ADS-B etc and collective spotting I don't have to sit out at JFK alone for nearly 2 weeks every day running around NYC, SWF, EWR, TEB, HPN and beyond like I did for most years. Now its just about filling in the holes with mediocre frames that just add to other mediocre frames.
I pretty much shoot whatever comes in with little or no emotion and no feelings of accomplishment. Like you said 15-20 years ago so many things were super unique and rare one time visitors that usually never came back. I was fortunate to get the final UNGA flights of some of those frames before they were retired. The excitement and feelings of getting some of those truly rare frames was indescribable. Now its just.."STUFF" things you see every year of typed we have shot many times over. So many of the VIP aircraft are not being painted as well as they had been just like that Kyrgyzstan A320.
I am sure the Aliens upgraded their aircraft and would flying in the boring new stuff with crappy markings :)
Mario R,
I respond just how you did. When I saw that they retired the T154 Government frame I was like. OH...NOOOOOOOWW you want to bring in your VIP aircraft.
I looked at the shots on the internet and was like WTH is this garbage? WTH is this silly non serious looking livery? Do I really have to sit out at JFK for 4 hours for this? But yea I was hoping they would have applied the T145 liver onto the A320 that would have been nice.
Those,
Winnebago liveries are really hard to go out for. I usually I just pass them by on the ramp. Like another rock on the side of the road and I don't shoot that bile that gets vomited all over NYC JFK and EWR etc. I went out for the Brunei because it was a new Series 747 but that's the only reason.
I guess we didn't see a 757 for the while thing. sheesh. Who would have thought that not a single 757. I know you remember when we got the Cubana ATR-72 that came in. Now that was interesting....I'd love to know the last time a non-jet aircraft showed up for the UNGA.
I do remember those post 9-11 years and doing the UNGA. It was really rough back then. Luckily I never ran into a problem during the UNGA. I wish I was around NYC in the mid and late 90s I can only imagine that might have come in then . Imagine the 1970s.
Last year was rough because nearly everything that was new for me was a night arrival so I had to shoot them at times times at 2am- what a pain.
Mark L,
Its great to see people conversing on here again- even if it just for a few days. Hopefully in the future the site will become lively again. One thing I have noticed is how the window of time for the moments is getting smaller and smaller. Instead of it being 1.5 weeks it was a week and now it seems we are just a few days of fly-ins and fly-outs.
Mario C,
FRG got some nice reposition this year. I assume you got them all and I am sure they were probably very shootable. TEB and also HPN (up by me) didn't get much this UNGA. Hopefully the next UNGA we will get more new frames.
Senga