Plane spotting while stranded

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 04/28/2020 at 23:24 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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The spot I was stuck in this afternoon when my scooter shat the bed, is right under one of the approach paths into O’Hare airport. I saw no less than three cargo 747s while I was there.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 04/28/2020 at 23:43

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Ttyymmnn would have taken that bullet for you.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > shop-teacher 04/28/2020 at 23:44

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Nice to see ol’ Connie has some decent, newer -400s. I know they’ve had them for some time now, but back in my days on the ramp a decade ago all I saw were a bunch of ragged-out -100s and -200s, two of which they lost in quick succession in 2008.

Oops.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/28/2020 at 23:54

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I know he would have! He was the first one I thought of, when I saw the first one.

shop-teacher > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/28/2020 at 23:55

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Yipes!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > shop-teacher 04/28/2020 at 23:58

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On the bright side, nobody was killed in that series of accidents, just the write-off of a couple of aircraft. I believe that there was another incident around the same time where a pilot was suffering from hypoxia, but he was able to get down to a reasonable altitude before something awful happened.

Nauraushaun > shop-teacher 04/29/2020 at 00:06

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I’ve got a bunch of aircraft going over my place all the time, big, small and otherwise. Someone at work got me onto this.

I never really cared what I was hearing or seeing. I didn’t know I needed this but I do

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 04/29/2020 at 00:12

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Nice! Most of what is in the air these days is cargo, even combis (cargo and passengers in the same hold) are flying. Anything to keep the planes in the air. 

wafflesnfalafel > shop-teacher 04/29/2020 at 00:26

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I am still surprised by how loud and rumbly 747s are - caught this coming into SeaTac last November....

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > shop-teacher 04/29/2020 at 01:33

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Our workshop is in Jefferson park just off Lawrence and Cicero so there’s plenty of air traffic there — Agreed, amazing how often  you do still see the odd 747

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/29/2020 at 07:29

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That’s just their quick-egress cargo system. 

shop-teacher > wafflesnfalafel 04/29/2020 at 08:20

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We looked at buying a house about a mile directly west of here. It was a gorgeous old farm house, with a nice big yard, and a HUGE garage. Then one of these cargo 747s rumbled past directly over the house and not much higher than when I took this picture. We noped right out of there. I still will occasionally drive past that hoise, and stare lustfully at that beautiful garage.

shop-teacher > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/29/2020 at 08:21

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That's good!

cg-guy > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/29/2020 at 16:34

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Beau Bridges as Connie Kalitta - one of my favorites.