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Speed bird Boeing 747-400

June 26, 2019 By Rafael Leave a Comment

Speed bird Boeing 747-400

Speed bird Boeing 747-400 at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. when this flight started, it was with a Boeing 787, but they quickly had to upsize the plane due to demand. In case you’re wondering, it’s an 11+ hour non-stop flight to and from London Heathrow.   Speed Bird, is the radio call sign for British […]

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Bombardier Global Crossing 7000

February 3, 2018 By Rafael Leave a Comment

Bombardier Global 7000

  Bombardier Global 7000 about to touchdown at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. I’m not sure which prototype this is, but according to the registry it has Rolls Royce engines instead of the standard GE Passport engines. This is a $73 million plane with a 7400nm range. Niki Lauda, allegedly, ordered one of these for himself. […]

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Texan II Doing Touch And Goes At Austin Bergstrom

January 31, 2018 By Rafael Leave a Comment

Embraer Tucano aka Texan II

  I used to think that these Texan II planes were based on the Brazilian made Embraer Tucano lightweight attack and training plane, but I was wrong. The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II trainer is actually based on the Swiss Pilatus PC-9 and not the Tucano. This type of plane is used by the US Air […]

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DHL Boeing 767 Cargo at Austin Bergstrom

January 30, 2018 By Rafael Leave a Comment

DHL 767

  Some DHL action at @ausairport if you look in the background, you can see a peek of an Atlas Air Cargo B747. I couldn’t get a clean shot of the Atlas 747, so this will have to do. #kaus #avgeekphoto from Instagram: http://bit.ly/2xBPYKq

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The Queen B747 Takes To The Skies

December 1, 2017 By Rafael Leave a Comment

An Air France B747-400 takes off from Toronto Pearson Airport

The queen B747 abides. To me, it’s weird to think that soon there won’t be many 747s flying around the globe. #avgeekphoto #yyz from Instagram: http://bit.ly/2r1dZYZ I mean, United Airlines just retired their passenger Boeing 747 aircraft from service. Most of the Boeing 747-8 planes that have been sold/ built are cargo variants, so how […]

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Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 On Short Final

November 28, 2017 By Rafael Leave a Comment

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 about to land at Austin Bergstrom International Airport

  Just seconds before touching down at @ausairport @southwestair #avgeekphoto from Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Ak6Urg I snuck in this shot of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 about to touch down at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. My favorite part of this shot, is that you can see through the leading edge flaps on the wing. I took this […]

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Qantas Boeing 747-400 Longreach

November 3, 2017 By Rafael Leave a Comment

Qantas B747-400 Longreach

Queensland and Northern Territories Air Service Boeing 747-400 ER about to touchdown at DFW airport back in 2011. At that time, this was the longest non-stop regularly scheduled commercial flight… in the world. I caught this the last time I was at Founder’s Plaza. #avgeekphoto from Instagram: http://bit.ly/2mdk2GQ

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Francisco Sarabia Tinoco’s GeeBee plane

October 31, 2017 By Rafael Leave a Comment

Francisco Sarabia Tinoco's GeeBee

This is Francisco Sarabia Tinoco’s GeeBee plane. He set a speed record flying from Mexico City to Washington DC. Tinoco died when his Gee-Bee crashed into the Potomac river on his return trip to Mexico. By the way, this is one of 2 remaining original GEE-BEE built by the Granville Brothers. If you want to […]

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