18Jan2012
Author
Felipe Garcia
Category
Spotting, Uncategorized
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LAS Spotting – Nov 2011

Well, almost 2 months late, but better late than never. Unfortunately my plans to write a bunch of articles and reports while I was vacationing in Mexico quickly fell apart due to the not-so-great 2MBPS connection at my parents'. So last year for Thanksgiving break I planned a trip with some friends. While I insisted on going only to Vegas, one of my friends insisted to visit other places too, so we only had 2 days at LAS. Given that they

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13Dec2011
Author
Dave Budd
Category
Uncategorized
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Las Vegas McCarran’s Terminal-3 Set To Open

Terminal 3, opening in 2012, will be used for all international flights as well as scheduled airlines. The terminal will contain fourteen gates (E1-E12, E14-15), with the easternmost six gates being used for international flights. A people mover system will connect Terminal 3 to Concourse D. A $2.4 billion construction project at McCarran International Airport is stimulating the bottom lines of thousands of Clark County households and

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12Dec2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
PHX, Spotting, Uncategorized
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Spotting Location of the Week

This week we have picked Terminal 3 as the Spotting location on the week. Terminal 3: Delta, Frontier, American, Hawaiian, and JetBlue   Terminal 3 - Description : The T3 garage is a good location to get close-up shots of aircraft taxiing to the gates you can also get shots of aircraft rotating in front of you when are departing (either runway). You can go to the upper levels to get un-cluttered

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05Dec2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
Road trips, Spotting
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Winter Spotting in LAX (Imperial Hill Exclusive)

  PHX Spotter Member Saurabh Patel had a chance to visit LAX and wanted to share his story. This winter I got a chance to visit the city of Angels for a week for spotting while my family was out on vacation. LAX is one of the busiest airports on the west side with an abundance of international heavy traffic. LAX has a few world famous spotting locations where people from all over the world come to enjoy spotting. The few spots are

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04Dec2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
PHX, Spotting, Uncategorized
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Spotting Location of the week

  This week we have decided to select Terminal 2 as our Spotting location of the week. Description : The T2 parking garage is only 2 levels tall and there is no view to the south side (which is where the gates are located) so the only spotting you can do here is on the north side overlooking the landing zone of rwy08. This is where most aircraft will turn off when they land on rwy26. Shots can be taken all year long from

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29Nov2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
Events, Friends, PHX, Spotting, Uncategorized
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Farewell to an Old Workhorse

Without so much as a whimper, the last operational US Airways "West" Boeing 737 made its final journey home on ovember 29th.  The aircraft tasked with this assignment, N305AW, touched down in Phoenix, AZ at 1:31 pm, operating as "Cactus 48" from Las Vegas, NV. Among the passengers on the nearly-empty flight was a retired America West Airlines captain who had begun his career with the airline on the day it commenced operations on August

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17Nov2011
Author
Felipe Garcia
Category
Airshows, Military, Uncategorized
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Aviation Nation 2011

Finally. After 4 days of editing, I finished the processing last night. Let me start by saying that this was my first time ever at Aviation Nation 2011, and I wasn't sure what to expect. I knew that the afternoon light was going to be great for the static displays, and it was; unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the morning light, which made most of the morning performances backlit. After the show "officially" started, it was

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17Nov2011
Author
Felipe Garcia
Category
Airshows, Military, Special paint, Uncategorized
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The 64th AS Gets a New Camo Scheme

This is the first post about Aviation Nation 2011, I really feel like this deserves its own post. One of my surprises at Aviation Nation this year was one of the Aggressors on static display, an F-16 in a white/black/gray arctic camo. I was promptly informed by Joe Kates (Photorecon) that it was a new scheme for the squadron and this was the first plane to be painted like that, having rolled out of the paint shop only 4 days before the

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12Nov2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
Events, Friends, PHX, Spotting, Uncategorized
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PHX Spotters Day 2011

Our second annual PHX Spotters day 2011 was a complete success. The staff at PHX Spotters started planning this event about 3 months ago. We decided to plan the event for November 5th, 2011. Even with there being a couple other events in the surrounding areas of Phoenix we decided the day must go one. Invites sent out via Facebook and Twitter. There is no turning back. The day before the event and the weather is not looking to good for our

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09Nov2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
Friends, PHX
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Many colors of Phoenix

  This photo was provided by PhxSpotters member Bryan Snider. This is a perfect example of the many colors that Phoenix has to offer for photographers. This was taken from Terminal 4 SW corner of the top

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26Oct2011
Author
Felipe Garcia
Category
Events, Helicopters, Prescott
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Embry-Riddle Octoberwest 2011: Part 1

The first week of October the Prescott campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University celebrated Octoberwest, the homecoming celebrations, usually that involves some alumni coming back, having dinner, a career expo, but I never saw something as nice as this year's since 2008. In addition to the regular events we had 5 helicopters land on the soccer field and stay for the day, and a fly-in on Saturday. Also, N501SC, a Stemme S-10 converted to

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24Oct2011
Author
Jason Bong
Category
PHX, Spotting, Uncategorized
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Spotting location of the week

We will be doing a weekly spotting location update for all of our members and visitors. This weeks spotting location is 40th Street.  If you take a look on the map, that is provided below 40th St is #3 on the map. This is a great location in the winter when aircraft on the 25/07’s can’t be snapped from the parking garages. You can get great landing/departing action on both runways all day long. When driving on 40th Street you will

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