The Planespotting/General AV Geek Thread

[Major]

An interesting video of an SR-71 model

Gigantic R/C Jet Turbine Powered SR-71 Blackbird Showing Off it's Ultra Fast Flying Skills - [throt-l]

 

[Captain Halliday]

MH850 in Bali
Edit: rego is 9M-MRC for the real av geeks

 

[Captain Halliday]

Cathay et. al. In Bali and a Citilink A320 wheels down on RWY27.

 

[Captain Halliday]

An interesting combo paint job spotted in Bali. Boeing fuselage and Lionair tail.

 

[Major]

From the OOL lounge yesterday

 

[Clivem]

OOL, what a joke ...what is it now in terms of PAX movements - Largest non-cap city and 6th overall for the country ?

Yet no areo-bridges in this day and age, nor any plan for them ......

Section 7.3 and particular 7.3.2 of their current master plan is sad reading ...

The apron stand positions are currently set back from the terminal face as will similarly occur with future apron stand positions, with sufficient distance to accommodate aerobridges should the airlines see a feasible requirement for their installation in the future. Airport owners developing terminals to cater for low cost carrier airlines, both domestically and internationally, tend not to include aerobridges for the reasons outlined.

 

[Dmac6345]

OOL, what a joke ...what is it now in terms of PAX movements - Largest non-cap city and 6th overall for the country ?

Yet no areo-bridges in this day and age, nor any plan for them ......

Section 7.3 and particular 7.3.2 of their current master plan is sad reading ...

The apron stand positions are currently set back from the terminal face as will similarly occur with future apron stand positions, with sufficient distance to accommodate aerobridges should the airlines see a feasible requirement for their installation in the future. Airport owners developing terminals to cater for low cost carrier airlines, both domestically and internationally, tend not to include aerobridges for the reasons outlined.

Agree, and the last two times I have been walking across the tarmac, it has been p...ing down !!!!

 

[Clivem]

Agree, and the last two times I have been walking across the tarmac, it has been p...ing down !!!!

Don't worry it was only 34 degrees C (dry blub) air temp at OOL yesterday afternoon ...feel free to take a stab at the apron temp .......

 

[ozbeachbabe]

View attachment 43080An interesting combo paint job spotted in Bali. Boeing fuselage and Lionair tail.

I saw a Lionair hybrid a/c in Jan which said Malindo (?) Air on the fuselage but the Lion Air logo on the tail.

 

[Captain Halliday]

I saw a Lionair hybrid a/c in Jan which said Malindo (?) Air on the fuselage but the Lion Air logo on the tail.

Yes, it was at DPS last night too. If you look at post 323 you can see one of these hybrids just behind Cathay. Malindo is a minority's shareholder with Lionair but now has a fleet of about half a dozen 737s in its own right. I don't know why the have retained the Lionair logo on the tail though.

edit: typo

 

[Clivem]

Some nice work by Mrs Clivem of my flight to LAX on VH-VPF. Some great tail winds across the Pacific we held at BNE for a while because we would of arrived to early for immigration and customs at TBIT. Unusally thing about this one it wasn't VA7 ...... it was VA5 March 7 the VA transpac flights had a numbering change for some reason VA3 out of SYD and 5 out of BNE

 

[Meggsy]

Saw this 737-800 at AYQ today. Charter flight with about 60 pax. Long way from home!

 

[leadman]

Early Morning KUL Terminal A

 

[leadman]

The "Pac-man" A320 at CEB > MNL. Wonder if it gets de-commissioned if he loses to Mayweather?

 

[clazman]

Airline you don't see every day

 

[Dmac6345]

Airline you don't see every day

View attachment 44349

An airline that is much better on the ground than in the air.
Wasn't it called 'Aeroflop' at some stage?

 

[clazman]

I think so, aircraft looks in good nick or new paint job

 

[lastrow]

My guess is that it is an A300, Aeroflot have quite a few of them as there is too much passenger resistance to flying in a Russian plane.

 

[TomVexille]

My guess is that it is an A300, Aeroflot have quite a few of them as there is too much passenger resistance to flying in a Russian plane.

Aeroflot have never had A300's.

Looks more like 777 to me.

 

[Major]

Aeroflot have never had A300's.

Looks more like 777 to me.

They do have a stack of A330's

Airplanes | Aeroflot