JFK review 12/1/07

Today I headed out to Howard Beach for some 31L departures. It was very cold and windy when i got there. They were using 4s and 31L KK runway configuration. Gordon Jr. and his Dad were at Bayswater. When they switched to the 31s, we met up, stayed a little while then headed to Firestone. It was cold but worth it.

Some 31L bankies:

China Airlines Cargo 747-400
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ler/160a-1.jpg
JAL 747-400
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ler/187a-1.jpg
EVA MD-11
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...oller/241a.jpg
Sun Country 737-800 in old Transavia colors
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...oller/261a.jpg
Finnaly I caught Delta 757-200 NC with winglets
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...r/274acopy.jpg
World Airways MD-11
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ler/294a-1.jpg
LAN 767-300
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ler/319a-1.jpg
US Airways A319 in Battle Horn livery
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...oller/335a.jpg
Eithad A340-500 with a bank that was not impressive to Gordon
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ller/375ab.jpg

After Eithad had taken off, Gordon's dad drove us to Firestone to catch some 31R arrivals.
Jet Airways 777-300
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...oller/404a.jpg
Virgin A340-600
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ler/419a-1.jpg
Cathay A340-600
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u...ler/428a-1.jpg

Man, I thought I was the only one who was nuts enough to go out in this weather! I didn't get an early enough start to go to JFK, but I got some pics at Worlds Fair Marina...I'll post after I've had some time to edit.

My parents and I are spending the weekend at my sisters house to babysit my nephews while my sister and brother in law are in Mexico. Since my sister lives in White Plains my father and I thought we'd take advantage of the proximity to JFK to try and shoot some of the early morning departures and arrivals. We got to JFK around 7:30am and headed to HoBe where we caught a Cathay silver bullet and then saw they had switched to 4 so we high tailed it over to Bayswater. Unfortunately we missed the Virgin, British, and another Cathay Cargo departure but we spent the latter half of the morning shooting 4 departures and arrivals until they switched back to 31.

Highlights of the day were watching the Nevada One scheme and the Sun Country hybrid as well as finally catching Jet!

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Great shots, Gordon. Guess which one's my favorite? :-)

BTW, haven't seen too many shots of N3744F lately (the only new colors 73H). She seems to hang out at JFK pretty often. Seen her lately?

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Originally Posted by ChrisW

Great shots, Gordon. Guess which one's my favorite? :-)

BTW, haven't seen too many shots of N3744F lately (the only new colors 73H). She seems to hang out at JFK pretty often. Seen her lately?

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Thanks, Chris. :)

According to the scheds she was was operating the morning flight to SEA, I must have missed her while I was on my way from HoBe to Bayswater, she was definitely an aircraft I wanted to catch this morning. Pink Delta was also at JFK this morning but departed on 31L along with the 777-200 and 3 other 75Ws.

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Sun Country 737-800 in old Transavia colors

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That is their new C/S here is their old one.

[airlinerstp://www.airliners.net/open.file/1190709/L/[/airlinersNice catch, I chased that new one hybrid forever before she finally landed early one morning.

Andrew Sieber caught 3744 arriving SEA today:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/...0ded2a.jpg?v=0

His photoset: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartjunco/

Nice shots from the both of you guys! Luke looks like it paid off for you with the exposure compensation.

Good shots guys! Nice coverage. :)

All impressive photos, I really like the look of the new c/s on that DL 737.

Forgot one:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../hl7498744.jpg

Nice shots, here are some of my shots from today,

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...IMG_0088-1.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...IMG_0099-1.jpg

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What time did Thai finally arrive?

"What time did Thai finally arrive?"

It arrived about 1:25 pm

Great shots to all!! I was suppose to be out there yesterday, too bad i never made it out there

Hey Chris-

re: N3744F, I've seen her twice now at JFK and not been able to get a decent shot of her. I saw her driving out of JFK two Sundays ago on the JFK Expy and she flew right overhead landing on 13L and it would have made a perfect shot if I'd had my bloody camera!!! The second time was last Wednesday, I flew out of JFK to FLL on N703TW (ex-TWA 757 w/ winglets) and we boarded by bus on the hardstand, and guess who else was hardstanded next to us. It was pitch black out though, so I guess I can only blame myself for not having my camera for that first shot. GRRR!!!

Now that my little rant is over, props to Luke & Gordon on those excellent shots!

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Originally Posted by kc2aqg

last Wednesday, I flew out of JFK to FLL on N703TW

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What time Andy - I didn't think they were using the wingletted 752's to FLL - DAMN..I only just got my first new color scheme DL today - and all I see on Flightstats and Flightaware are MD-80's coming from JFK....

Hey Mark-

Unfortunately the only flight coming from JFK that is on the 757 is DL999 (which was DL1681 up until 12/1 which I flew on) which departs at 7:05PM and arrives at 10:50 PM. Unfortunately it won't be good for a shot at night, but I did look at the gate board for the gate's next flight and it showed the 6 something AM flight to Atlanta. You might be able to squeak enough light out at that time to catch a nice pic of her, if you can confirm that it will be an ex-TWA bird operating the flight the previous night.

Which bird did you catch in the new colors? I'm hoping to get some with you this Sunday!

That's the same flight I took to FLL for Thanksgiving...it was an ex-Song 757.

Today I got N627DL in new colors.