Well, I made it out to DTW on Thursday, unfortunately the forecasts called for t-storms all day, every hour, but I decided to go anyway because I don't get to go out that often. If you read from my "Galley" post, my power was out (and is out, just got cable back) due to a small tornado that swept through my town.
Anyway, weather wasn't as bad as expected, but still sucked.
They closed down the airport 4 TIMES, longest for about 2 hrs, they diverted traffic, held traffic, did ground stops, some flights were delayed on taxiways for 6 hours, it amused me when the controller said "Northwest 54 heavy, welcome to the line, you are number 46 for departure". They were having airplanes taxi out of the line to let airplanes not departing East leave (because East departures were being held due to the weather) The weather was really bad at points.
Anyway,
They closed down the best spot for arriving heavies because they were resurfacing it, that made me pissed, there is no other place to catch 22L arrivals on property, I could go off property but I didn't have a car...
Caught some shots that I wanted to, but for the two planes I wanted to catch most, didn't get the correct shots off.
Missed the Royal Jordanian A340 arrival, but caught the depart (PROOF TO JOSH MAY THAT RJ DOES IN FACT FLY TO DTW), unfortunately I was on the whole other side of the airport getting a soda... I saw the Lufthansa arrival, but got a HORRIBLE shot of it on a taxiway since I couldn't catch it at the normal shot. It is cropped severely. ALMOST caught the Lufthansa departure but they switched runways AS SOON as they cleared him to taxi... So it was a mad dash to the other side of the airport via the airport shuttle, didn't make it in time.... Darn.
Also, another treat for us, we got TWO Star Alliance schemes today! An A320 and a E175!
But other than that, some good ones some bad ones, 500 shots in total, this is only a few, not the best, but it will do till I edit the rest.
Enough talking, on to the pictures:
Weather shots (progression):
Dedicated to Josh May who demanded I get photo evidence that Royal Jordanian flew to DTW, he didn't believe anything published on the internet:
A special treat! Lufthansa subbed the normal A330 for an A340! (which is actually quite common for them at DTW, its usually about a 50/50 split ;)) But it was far away so this is cropped like crazy!
And on to more bad weather shots!
Star Alliance represented at DTW that day!:
Another one I wanted to catch:
A small hole opened up in the clouds to allow some interesting lighting effects for these two departures:
A330 departure, it may look like good light, but it was only a small opening, behind and to both sides were very dark clouds.
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