I think this is Jared Isaacman’s jet. The Inspiration 4 crew has at least 1 picture walking away from it. I just got a notice of it flying into TTS today.

Written on 2021年 09月 11日

Look at the flaps. They aren't fully deployed, so it's taking off. Maybe the wheels too, spinning vs stationary.

Written on 2021年 08月 27日

Flies over my house all the time. I saw it this morning. Engines are typically sooty for their age, but unusual for what we usually see on most aircraft flying today. It's super noisy and high-pitched too - very distinctive. A couple of the pilots tweet regularly, @NerdyKowboy and @nasawb57

Written on 2021年 08月 13日

Shane, I think that water salute is to commemorate the first arrival of that new paint job to DAL, not a retirement.

Written on 2021年 06月 27日

I live a few miles from KEFD. It's nice to see what fighters are making the huge noise. T-38s are easy to discern, but the fighters all sound the same.

Written on 2021年 05月 28日

Which airport?
Sometimes I see them at WAL. I took a nice video of one coming in on the westbound approach. AWACS are generally a rare sight, though now I see E-3s occasionally in Texas.

Written on 2021年 02月 28日

They are definitely still flying. I live about 4 miles from the south end of EFD, and those things (there are 3) individually sound like a whole squadron of smaller jets when one flies over. Noisy and high pitched with the narrow engines. NASA uses them for various things, sometimes high-altitude weather data, sometimes taking footage of the Dragon capsule entry, sometimes taking footage of the SpaceX Starship hops. At least one of the pilots is on Twitter.

Written on 2021年 02月 14日

Or they smeared blood on it to ward off the Reavers.

Written on 2020年 11月 06日

AF1 is often a 757 when the President flies into an airport with no runway that can handle a 747.

Written on 2020年 10月 23日

Never seen that livery before. Thanks for sharing.

Written on 2020年 10月 09日