NZFF

Hi everyone, I've made it back from the USA ok, and now trying to catch up on work, and sleep.
I have a great many aviation photos taken on my journey, so if you are at a loose end, and on broadband you might like to check them out.

What you'll see in a nut shell:

KLAX - Los Angeles
On route to KELP- El Paso, Texas

Here I visited my very good flight simmer friend, and stayed with him on Fort Bliss army base, so there is plenty of military hardware to see.

We toured through southern New Mexico, so you'll see a bit of that, inc White Sands national monument, and white sands missile testing base (where I could actually take photos).

Also in New Mexico, the War Eagles Aviation museum, so plenty of photos of their numerous warbirds, including Migs!

And finally I headed home on Southwest Airlines again, and stopped in at Phoenix - KPHX for an hour and got photos there as well.

Enjoy

http://picasaweb.google.com/virtualpilot/USAJune2008

Nice pictures mate. Looks like you had a great trip.
What were all the flights like?
Thanks for sharing. Nice to have you back safely.

By the way, if you can name the plane in the photo I took a picture of, I'm sure the museum would love to hear from you!
(Photo 230 of 316) lol

Albatross wrote:

QUOTE (Albatross @ Jul 3 2008, 07:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

By the way, if you can name the plane in the photo I took a picture of, I'm sure the museum would love to hear from you!
(Photo 230 of 316) lol

Have no idea I can only say it looks old
You might want to post it on here as it takes a bit of searching

Great pic s Alister .. White Sands ...FATBOY ..jeepers you love that bomb

EDIT Al , send me pic 230 .. now were the heck did i see it , cant recall if was from book or .. can't recall .. or maybe confused with another , head-scratch

and it was a TU2

Sorry about the quality of the photo, it was a little hard framed in glass

Cool pictures Alister, thanks for posting.
Good to hear you had a good trip.

at this one. Does it really need chocks?
http://picasaweb.google.com/virtualpilot/U...906164470545074

Awesome pics, looked a bit warmer over there
Looks like you had an awesome trip.

Cheers guys
It was very warm over there. Had a few days over 40 deg C...
It was 107 in Phoenix when I was passing through - (41C)

Bet you're glad to be back on the ground...thanks for sharing those.
Astonishing to think the Nighthawk is obsolete now - think the last 4 were about to be permanently packed away around now.

Albatross wrote:

QUOTE (Albatross @ Jul 3 2008, 08:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The USA pioneers were very interested in many French designs .. The Voisin'L' type 1to 6 ..I found a photo of the V-LA type 3 , those days , designs were so much a signature like todays Boeing,s , I'm sure its a Voisin , more research

Surprised the Museum did not put forward the name as a starting point ?

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 3 2008, 09:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Surprised the Museum did not put forward the name as a starting point ?

Do they know what it is?

Great pics, Alister. Thanks for sharing

NZ255 wrote:

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Jul 3 2008, 09:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do they know what it is?

I would have guessed not, when it says "can you help us identify it?"

No, they don't know what it is, so I'm sure they'll be pleased to find out
Sorry Daniel I missed your question. The worst flight was NZAA-KLAX, as it was very rough (threw my drink off my tray) but the rest were excellent. Southwest were excellent, and right on time. I have added a B735 abd B737-700 to my list of aircraft now too
Thanks for your comments all

Awesome shots Alister - great you met up with Brad.

Alex

AWESOME photos man youve gone along way to get them thanks for sharing

Would be very interesting to find out what the mystery plane was.
Be nice if one of the people in the picture were still alive.
Good to hear you had good flights, I haven't heard a bad thing about Southwest yet.

Thanks for your comments guys @Alex, Brad was very cool, we got on great and can't wait to see him again one day.
Southwest were great too, I had great flights and the staff were great. Was cool to see the Captain out in the aisles helping the crew clean the aircraft for the next flight!

Albatross wrote:

QUOTE (Albatross @ Jul 8 2008, 06:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

@Alex, Brad was very cool, we got on great and can't wait to see him again one day.

Yea, he seems like a good guy from the (short) chats we've had.

Alex

I love browsing through travel photo albums like these- thanks for posting Alister, looks like you had a really great time!