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Founder's Plaza Photo Preview

Rafael — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:39:43 +0000

I went out to DFW Airport’s Founder’s Plaza recently and took a bunch of fotos and video. Here are a couple of pictures that I took while I was out there that day.

The weather was not very cooperative that day, however there was a nice headwind for the planes to fly into. I tried to capture some of the adjustments that the pilots were having to make, but none of that came out in the videos nor in the photos.

Anyway, I just wanted to post a small preview of the pictures that I took that day. More of a prompt to myself to get the pictures finished than a teaser for you.

UPS A300

I like this picture because you can see the sculpture of the kids playing in the wind.

American Airlines 737-800

There were a lot of people out there, including a few little kids, or future avgeeks as I like to call them.

Future avgeek

Video: Air France A380 Collides With Delta Connection CRJ At JFK Airport

Rafael — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:06:02 +0000

This is crazy video footage of the collision between an Air France A380 with a Delta Connection CRJ at JFK Airport in New York.

I couldn’t figure out how something like this could have happened. I mean, I know the A380 is a huge plane, and maybe the pilot didn’t see the smaller CRJ and clipped it. From the video, it looks like the CRJ didn’t quite clear the taxiway and/or perhaps the A380 was not tracking down the middle of the taxiway.

I can only imagine how freaked out the people on the CRJ must’ve gotten when the plane was jolted like that. Folks, there’s a reason why we need to remain seated until the plane is at the terminal building and the fasten seatbelt sign is turned off.

Regardless, I’d love to see the insurance claim on this accident.

Air France A380 Collides With Delta CRJ

Cool Plane To Plane Video

Rafael — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:47:07 +0000

This is some really cool plane to plane video shot from one airliner showing an Air France Boeing 777 flying side by side. My bet, is that they were transatlantic somewhere, but I could be wrong about that.

General Electric's New Flying Test Bed

Rafael — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:07:41 +0000

Well, well, well, what have we here? It looks like it’s an old JAL, aka Japan Air Lines, Boeing 747. I’m glad to see that this one will be spared from being scrapped. For now.

I would imagine that General Electric will use this plane to test new engine technology, but also electronics and other tech as well. I think, this is a beautiful looking plane. Then again, I am partial to the B747.

EVA Air Boeing 747 On Takeoff

Rafael — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:54:57 +0000

I really like this photo. It features a Boeing 747 on its takeoff roll from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. I love the contrast in sizes between the plane, the cars and the people in the picture.

EVA Air 747 On Takeoff

Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com