AF1 due in today?

**eric8669** · 05-13-2010, 10:20 AM

I thought I saw someone mention it.

**AirtrafficController** · 05-13-2010, 10:22 AM

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**eric8669** · 05-13-2010, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by AirtrafficController

http://nycaviation.com/forum/helicopters-in-nyc-today-t19364.html

Thanks...

I knew I saw it somewhere.

**fk6065** · 05-13-2010, 10:32 AM

So when exactly is AF-1 due in today? I happen to be off.

**Matt Molnar** · 05-13-2010, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by fk6065

So when exactly is AF-1 due in today? I happen to be off.

TFR starts at 3:45pm, so probably not long after that. He'll be flying in from Buffalo.

**hiss srq** · 05-13-2010, 12:00 PM

Being the bugger always uses 31R in and 13L out I will be on my rooftop with my camera to catch AF1..... Love this house! I figure about 1500 AGL maybe a touch lower crossing behind my house so from the roof I should have the angle and distance with 400MM to get a pretty good nearly full frame I am hoping.

**fk6065** · 05-13-2010, 07:09 PM

Thanks to all for all the help. AF-1 came in on 31R at 4:45PM. I was just about to give up figuring they had used a different runway when they showed up. A few photos.

**emk1219** · 05-13-2010, 07:52 PM

NICE JOB!!!

**moose135** · 05-13-2010, 08:03 PM

Great shots, Fred! You really had a beautiful sky for it today.

**fk6065** · 05-13-2010, 08:10 PM

Thanks emk, Thanks Moose. I know the skies were great, thank goodness it was today and not yesterday.

Hopefully we will have skies like that in two weeks for Jones Beach!

**emk1219** · 05-13-2010, 08:13 PM

Hey I'm headin down to Andrews for Sunday show, weather is said to be like today, so I'm fully pumped up!!!
Eli

NLovis · 05-13-2010, 11:28 PM

Yea I had no chance of getting it. I got to JFK at 4:53 and I see AF1 at H3. Really nice shots though.

**Speedbird1** · 05-14-2010, 05:58 AM

Great shots. It is interesting to note that they stopped all arrivals and departures at JFK during this arrival for about 8 minutes from the 22's. By 4:47, all operations resumed.I wonder when he departed from Rwy 31R Thursday evening. I am curious what focal length you use. I used to use a 205mm telephoto zoom lens with my Canon SLR when I went on the hill by Rockaway Blvd @ 22L. The hill has since been leveled. I used manual settings of 1/1000 and f3.8. I never upgraded after film-type cameras became obsolete so I now use a small 10X point and shoot camera which can't compare. Incidentally, what is the actual printed call-sign for Air Force One? AF 1 was the call-sign for the Air France Concorde for over 2 decades.

**fk6065** · 05-14-2010, 08:43 AM

I was in the Cosco parking lot with an 80-400mm. Since the skies looked so great, plus that lense is 5.6 at the long side I used shutter priority at 1/1000th. Most of the apetures were around f6.3 to f8.

Biggest problem with Cosco was the wires and the parking lot lights.