Action from Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport

jsch33 · Sep 25, 2008

Haven't been out shooting for awhile, but an Evergreen 747 Supertanker keeps going over my house on test flights so I figured I'd drive the 10 miles over to the airport to check out the landing. Also got an Allegiant landing, then a NASA T-36.

Louis Champan · Sep 25, 2008

Nice shots.

openwide · Sep 25, 2008

i like the pics. david

siinjen · Sep 27, 2008

Nice capture...thanks for sharing.

lmatney · Sep 27, 2008

Hi John,

Very nice shots. I was curious about the Supertanker and did a quick search on it. (See http://www.evergreenaviation.com/supertanker/gallery.html). I did not realize that anyone was using a 747 for fire retardant drops. It must be something else to see it in action.

jsch33 · Sep 27, 2008

Thanks all, I didn't get to see the Supertanker do any drops. I just happen to see a friend that works at the airport just before it landed and they were supposedly going to do a water drop right on one of the runways, but it was pretty windy that day and the tanker was heading back to its home Friday morning. I didn't get up in time to get pics of it taking off but it did go over my house again on takeoff.

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Action from Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport

jsch33

Louis Champan

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siinjen

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jsch33