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Phxspotters wants to thank Southwest Airlines for allowing us to get some photos at your Maintenance hanger. It was a lot of fun and it was great having your staff come out and ask us tons of questions. We were the ones who should have been asking all the questions. We look forward to next time. All Images © of Jason Bong all rights
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We at Phxspotters.com want to thank you for all your great comments about our site. This site is for you Aviation Photographers coming to visit the great State of Arizona. There is much more coming from Phxspotters.com, and if you would like to contribute please feel free to email us. Here are a couple random photos from Ben
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Ben Cowden was able to get up and close to the opening of the Taxiway during the construction of the new Sky
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Its another busy day at Sky Harbor International Airport (KPHX) Ben Cowden doing his daily spotting. I think he has a Job most of us Aviation Spotters would love to have. All images © Ben Cowden, all rights reserved
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British Airways has a non-stop flights from London Heathrow (EGLL / LHR) to Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl (KPHX). There is not really a bad spot at the Airport to get a glimpse of this Beautiful aircraft. This British Airways 747 is a Boeing 747-400 and it holds 416 (3-class) or 524 (2-class) 624 (400D, 1-class) and has a Maximum range of 7,260 nmi. The only time that the BA 747 does not come in KPHX is on Wednesdays and the last Thursday of the
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Jason Bong had the privilege of talking with the Honeywell crew as they get ready to depart from KGYR. The crew of Honeywell and JetBlue were not able to discuss about the configuration of the E190. But was able to did find out that it is under the experimental markings. Jason Bong was able to talk to the Operations manager out at Goodyear about the E190 and how excited the airport was about getting its first E190 to KGYR. The JetBlue E190
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After my photo of lightning over Sky Harbor Airport was published on Airliners.net on August 29th, 2010, I received a very special email from the Air Traffic Manager of Phoenix Air Traffic Control Tower, Mr. Bob Whitworth. He has been a controller, supervisor, and manager at numerous facilities throughout the nation. After viewing the photo, he asked if I would like to tour the facility. Of course, I said yes! After arriving at the
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Phxspotters is happy to announce that we have gained another Contributing Photographer in our ranks. We are very happy with Ben Cowdens love for photography and love for aviation. Ben Cowden “Ben is an up and coming aviation photographer and long time aviation enthusiast. As an aviation photographer, Ben constantly strives to produce images that generate a feeling of realism, but that also evoke more visceral emotions of wonder
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Phxspotters Jason Bong and Joe Kates attended the fly-in on October 2nd 2010. The fly-in is held on the first Saturday of every month (except June, July, August and September), Coolidge Aviation, LLC sponsors the fly-in. Breakfast is served by the Coolidge Lion’s Club in front of the main hangar at the airport. The event usually starts about 8:00 a.m. and ends around 12:00 p.m. This is a great spotters adventure. Photographers are
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I wanted to post random photos of pictures that I have taken since I started woring with Phxspotters.com. Ever since I started taking Aviation pictures I have been getting better and better. I want to thank Photorecon and Dave budd for getting me to join. Now if only we can get all three of us in 1 spot that would be
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Phxspotters was out at Goodyear today and got to witness a 17 yr old take his first flight in a private airplane. All of Genes family blindfolded him and took him into the terminal and waited for the Cessna to arrive. The pilot of the Cessna was Bob May from goodyear who is also the manger of the Control Tower out at Goodyear. They all loaded up in the Cessna 172 that is part of the Flying Ten Flying Club. I talked to Genes parents and they said theat he has wanted to be a Pilot since he was just a small child. Well Gene let us be the first to tell you Happy Birthday and we hope that all your dreams come true. We all need to remember that without young adults like you who want to go on and be a pilot the aviation community would slowly disappear.
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I had a very nice Sunday morning spottng with a couple of friends. There was Scott our new contributing Editor and Matt who is the Co-Founder of AZAP and a personal friend Jeff who had to make like 4 barthroom breaks but its ok Jeff we understand.... Rookie. We went to several diffrent areas around KPHX and got a real nice treat when 2 McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II Plus BuNo 165579, VMA-311 "Tomcats"
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Well construction is going smoothly at Sky Harbor Airport. The picture above is some of the progress that has been completed. Studies show that automated trains are the most efficient way to move people through airports. The PHX Sky Train™ may potentially result in more than 20,000 fewer vehicles per day at the Airport - nearly 20 percent of a day's traffic - and significantly reduce curb congestion and pollution. Stage One of the PHX Sky Train will transport Airport visitors and employees between METRO light rail, east economy parking and Terminal 4, which serves 80 percent of Sky Harbor’s passengers. Construction will be complete in early 2013. Stage Two, which will continue through the Airport all the way to the Rental Car Center, will be up and running in 2020. A new
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The photo of the lightning over PHX was taken on August 17th, 2010 at 7:49 PM, right at the height of the monsoon storm. This was my first attempt at shooting lightning, and out of the 90 or so photos that I took from this very shot, only 2 had lightning in them whatsoever. I believe that getting a nice shot of lightning is 90% luck, and 10% skill. After all, when the lightning really strikes, your camera is either not pointed at the sky or your are in between photos. But for this shot, I suppose I got lucky, as not only was my shutter open and was pointed in the right direction, the lightning bolt was the biggest one of the night, by far. The photo was taken at the north west corner of the Terminal 4 parking garage, 8th level. Photo was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel T1i, paired with an EFS
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