JFK 04/24/10 - Review

[lijk604]

Had a great weather day...until about 5pm when the clouds started to really take over and ruin Qantas (Play Soccer scheme), TAM & Air France's evening 777. All in all it was a good day, pretty good weather, good company. It was nice meeting Chris (the FDNY dispatcher) hope to see him on here soon. It was good to see Matt, as well as Mark & Mike again, who with their youthful wisdom, came up with a way to make spotting at the mounds a little more relaxing (see pictures below). To those I forgot to mention I apologize. Not too many specials today, mostly the regular stuff:

Air China B744


American B777


Qatar B777


China Eastern A346


Air Berlin A330


Emirates B777


BA A318


Air France A380


Delta A330


Falcon 50 - Tyson Foods


I mentioned earlier about more relaxed spotting at The Mounds, here's the proof.




I see the dust spots on a few...tried processing too fast, time to re-do!

[Cartman]

I'm in the A380 F-HPJA :) very hard landing ....
If anyone would ike to spot this week i'm Ok :) tell me by MP when you are ok

[MarkLawrence]

Relaxing and spotting???

Nice shots John!!!

[Zee71]

It was nice meeting all of you.........here are a few of my captures

[eric8669]

I too was out today just a little bit earlier. Arrived at Bayswater at 6:30

[N221UA]

Great shots everyone! Looks like the La-Z-Boy is the next spotter must have.

[heeshung]

Day started out in Bayswater and ended up at the mounds when they switched to the 22's.

Weather was gorgeous, also great to meet the new guys.

Here are my favorites from today:







Looks like it's mating season for AA's Boeings.








My first shot of Qatar's new 773ER service.


My first shot of China Eastern's new schedule into JFK.


Another first for me, the A318 Speedbird service from London City.












A pleasant surprise.


Face-to-face titles.






















The gem of the day.

[Cartman]

heeshung I like your pics
verry nice job
like the 380

[cowens727]

Everyone's shots are great, I'm quite jealous over here! I need to get out to JFK more often....

[eric8669]

round 2

[chrisparypa]

Looks like awesome day.... A lot fo great stuff, good job guys.

[Matt Molnar]

Lots of awesomeness going on here.

I like the new typeface for Royal Air Maroc. When did that happen?

[threeholerglory]

here are 3 of mine....it's gonna take a loooooong time to go through everything...

[Mayi757]

I'm gonna start selling old car seats and putting Canon or Nikon? logos on them. Sit courtside at the mounds, sit hidden in the forest, sit in the bed of your pickup, sit in the roof of your (or neighbor's!) house, sit in the parking lot. You will be royally seating while the "regular people" are standing. "Sit and spot with confidence".

Nice shots everyone. I might be alone on this but the A346 which I always thought was the least photogenic widebody out there, dressed up in classic China Eastern paintscheme IMO looks much more graceful than any of the 777-300s maybe w/ the exception of ANA's. Amazing how a somewhat weird plane the A346 can look good in a good livery. Ok I think I've said that before...