US-Africa Summit ADW Shots, and visual Recap
Greetings,
I finally got back home this evening from a four day trip to the DC area to clean up on some African VIPs but also to visit Patuxent NAS to get some P-8s- that that post to come.
While Photographing the African Summit Aircraft I did not expect to pull many new ones, maybe 1 or 2. Mainly because I have archived about 85 to 90 percent of the counties in Africa now in my collection. That is exactly what happened. Out of all the visitors only 2 aircraft were new for me. In fact 2 new countries. Mali B737 and the Mauritania B737. I can't be bothered with generic Corporate Biz jets from countries I already have without state marking so I left the few that were there alone. I was very very disappointed to see Mali show up with a B737 instead of the 727 they have been seen flying around in. And of course The Congo 707 and the Gambia IL62 shows up. To think what I put myself to get those in past years even flying to MIA to shoot the Congo 707 only to get it again at the UNGA a few months later. The three aircraft/countries I wished to see and get their aircraft never showed- How Ironic. Getting that Mali is a sweet yet a bitter success. Its very disappointing to see African lose so many amazing aircraft over the last few years. Examples Angola went from 707 to a GLEX DTA001 or Togo to a lease Burkina Faso F7X, Gabon from a DC-8 to a B772 on and on and on times change.
You can see the Countries I need A plane from on the continent. There are not many left. Most of the remaining counties I need either don't have planes or hold poor examples titless biz jets etc.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3898/...73b46203_o.jpg
Anyway Got 2 new Aircraft/countries.
I will also post shots of the Gambia and the Congo along with the Mali and the Mauritania Airlines.
Mali B737 P4-PRM
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3844/...486074c8_c.jpg
Mauritania Airlines B737 5T-CLC
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3846/...2d8b2586_c.jpg
Gambia IL62 C5-RTG
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3906/...e5d2e214_c.jpg
Democratic Republic of the Congo
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3885/...6229cef4_c.jpg
N777AS (Only posted because its in updated colors)
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3922/...04e10035_c.jpg
USAF E4B 73-676 (my billionth shot of one)
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3894/...f5f536c9_c.jpg
The following aircraft are what I visually spotted in and around ADW.during the time I was there.
I am sure I forgot a few and some other came in and left not on my watch
This is what I spotted (Give about 2 -4 more)
Gambia IL62
Congo B762
Democratic Republic of the Congo B701
Tunisia F7X
Burkina Faso B722
Togo F7X (Burkina Faso Reg)
Namibia F7X
Equatorial Guinea Ceiba B772
Guinea A320 (Portugal reg)
South Africa B737
Nigeria B737
Mauritania B737
Mali B737
Tchad N767KS
N777AS (NC)
Libya F900
Ethiopia B752
Senegal A319
Swaziland MD80
Gabon B772
Benin B738
Angola F7X
ROJ005 B737 (OPF???)
Senga
