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Here's a few from yesterday and the day before, didn't have a chance to post this last night so not what I saw today lol. I know the first few aren't the greatest, lots of light and by the time I found a setting I was happy with no more planes showed up and I had to leave :( oh well thats life.

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No photos, sorry. Sunday, while working on the yard, I heard heavy rotor noise. CH-47's? Ch-53's? No, a couple of V-22's at low altitude. The rotors were at about 45 degrees. The leading noise level was very high, but following noise a whisper. I'd never seen them over the house before, Santa Clarita is far from a Marine base. A great sight!

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I live under the pattern at McChord AFB in Washington, and today's visitor was this:

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Wikipedia tells me it's a C-9B or VC-9C, but I haven't the foggiest what it's being used for- it shows up from time to time, does 10 or so touch-and-gos, and disappears. I've grown to kinda resent it, because it sounds so much different from the usual C-17s that I'm usually running outside with my camera hoping for an F-15, or something similarly exciting...

Another one from last fall:

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A couple other recent visitors:

McChord is a C-17 base, so these guys are pretty consistently overhead:

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We also get the occasional P-3 from NAS Whidbey doing touch and gos for an hour or two:

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Today was a beautiful day, but I was stuck at the house and atmospheric conditions sucked, which meant the pics did too. But in the spirit of our hobby, here are some scope shots.

Swissair A330

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Iberia A340-600

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Air France 777-300ER

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Brian, love your pics!!! Must have one helluva zoom lens on your camera. Reminds me of sitting in the back yard with my binoculars picking out planes and their logos! :thumbsup:/>

Thanks, I'm glad you like them! I use a 1500mm aperature lense mounted on a serious tripod with a really tiny Canon 7D mounted on the back. The Iberia A340 in the previous post was 33K feet up and about 22 miles out when I took those shots.

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Wikipedia tells me it's a C-9B or VC-9C, but I haven't the foggiest what it's being used for- it shows up from time to time, does 10 or so touch-and-gos, and disappears. I've grown to kinda resent it, because it sounds so much different from the usual C-17s that I'm usually running outside with my camera hoping for an F-15, or something similarly exciting...

The C-9B Skytrain was used by the USN/USMC to move men and material. It could be converted to use the 463L palletization system or rearward facing airliner seats. Probably belongs to a USN Reserve unit. I've loaded a few, but have only flown on the USAF C-9A/B Nightingales which has a mix of stretchers and again those reward facing passenger seats in the aft half of the fuselage.

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Even though today was clear, conditions were poor again, but I did manage to catch this Cargolux 747-800 enroute from Luxembourg to Miami.

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and these two coming in off the coast

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Really nice day, very clear and warm! Had the scope out while doing some yard work....

Aer Lingus A300

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Virgin Atlantic 747-400

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Air Transat

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Transero 747-440 a long way out!

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Also saw an Atlas Air 747 and British Airways 747, but they were too far out to get decent pictures.

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From yesterday, mostly RJ's missed my chance to catch a Transat A310 by a few minutes, have been trying to get one before they're retired.

Anyway on with the show!

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caught the strobe!!

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Last one

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First Fedex Freighter that i have captured! we're kinda lame for cargo aircraft here in spokane so this and the 757 767 UPS freighters are the highlight of my weekends. More to come as i get them processed from RAW format.

From my Flightaware page:

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Was up in the CN tower yesterday (Toronto) Looked down to the island airport and saw what looked like a United Nations marked Dash 8 sitting. White paint black markings.

Went to take a photo and the camera died.

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