by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 26, 2014 | Airlines, Airports, Featured, Frankfurt, Lufthansa, Plane Spotting |
Part IV continues the series on my recent Plane Spotting in Frankfurt. This installment focuses a bit more on European regional carriers as well as on Lufthansa metal and a couple of United birds. To get caught up on my previous posts for this series, please use these links: Part I, Part II, Part III. To visit my plane spotting index, please click here.
Adria S5-AAR
Air France’s HOP! F-HBLD
Air Serbia’s YU-APD
Austrian’s OE-LBF
Lufthansa Cargo’s D-ALFB
Lufthansa’s D-ABVU
Lufthansa’s D-AIKA
Lufthansa Cargo’s D-ALCG
Lufthansa’s D-AECI
OnurAir’s TC-ONS
Swiss’ HB-IJF
United’s N107UA
United’s N776UA
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 22, 2014 | Airlines, Airports, Featured, Frankfurt, Photography, Plane Spotting, Trip Reports |
More from my Plane Spotting while in Frankfurt in late November. As in Part I and Part II, I spent most of my time at the Affenfelsen observation platform that is located approximately half way down Runway 18 which is of course a North/South runway and is only used for departures. A few highlights for this part include one of Lufthansa Cargo’s 777 Freighters, a Kuwaiti A340, Etihad’s Formula 1 A340 and a few others unique birds.
To see the previous parts to this series, please click here for PART I and click here for PART II. You can also find my previous Plane Spotting posts in my Plane Spotting Index.
Air Europa’s 7373 EC-JBJ
Emirates’ 777 A6-ENS
Finnair’s A319 OH-LVK
Kuwait’s 340 9K-ANA
Lufthansa Cargo’s 777 Freighter D-ALFB
Lufthansa’s 747 D-ABVU
Lufthansa’s A321 D-AISG
Lufthansa Cargo’s MD-11 Freighter D-ALCD
Lufthansa’s A321 D-AIRO
Qatar Cargo’s 777 A7-BFE
SAS’ 737 LN-RRZ
Singapore’s A380 9V-SKR
Thomas Cook 757
Etihad’s A340 A6-EHJ – Formula I Grand Prix Livery (600mm / Handheld 😉 )
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 12, 2014 | Airlines, Airports, Featured, Plane Spotting |
Here is Part 2 of my Plane Spotting series from my latest trip to Frankfurt. As in Part I, these photos were taken from the Affenfelsen observation deck located at the mid point of Runway 18 which is used only for departures. To see the photos from Part I, please click here.
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Speedbird’s G-MEDG A321
China Southern Cargo’s 777F B-2072
Emirates A380 A6-EEW
Lufthansa Cargo MD-11F D-ALCI
Lufthansa’s A39 D-AILF
Lufthansa’s JetFriends A319 D-AILU
Lufthansa’s A380 D-AIMH ‘New York’
Malaysia Cargo 747F 9M-MPS
MEA’s A320 OD-MRM
Singapore’s A380 9V-SKN over the numbers…..
Turkish Cargo A330 Freighter TC-JCI
Vueling’s A320 EC-LOP
by Lufthansa Flyer | Dec 9, 2014 | Airports, Featured, Frankfurt, Photography, Plane Spotting |
On a recent trip to Frankfurt for a bit of LH business and to attend the FlyerTalk / Vielfliegertreff ‘Advent-DO’, I made sure to block out several hours in my calendar for spotting. Fortunately, ‘FRA’ is very ‘Spotter friendly’ and provides 3 dedicated areas designed to maximize quality spotting opportunities. The three include the observation deck in Terminal 2 (currently closed as part of a renovation to the food court area) and 2 spotting venues located at strategic points just outside the Airport’s fence.
One of these venues is located on the east side of the airport next to the Berlin Airlift Memorial which gives visitors a great vantage point for arrivals coming from the east. The other venue, ‘Affenfelsen’ (Monkey’s Rock?), is a spotting platform that puts you next to the North/South runway that is dedicated only for departing flights. Another advantage of the Affenfelsen site is its proximity to the East/West runways which allows you to capture flights arriving from the west.
For the 2 days that I had time for spotting, I chose the Affenfelsen site since it is easy to access from the airport and provides 2 runways worth of activity. To reach this spot, you simply take the Holiday Parking shuttle from Terminal 1 or 2 to the Holiday Parking Lot located near Affenfelsen. You’ll need to take a 15 minute walk from the parking lot, but its worth that minor effort.
Due to the amount of photos, I’ll publish a few posts to cover the 2 days. Weather on day 1 was overcast with low ceilings and mist that made it a bit challenging, however day 2 made up for it with clear and crisp skies. All of the photos that you’ll see are taken with a Nikon D800 attached to Sigma’s new 150-600mm Super Telephoto lens (click for lens review post). This was the first time I put this lens to use and it performed brilliantly. Even at 600mm and free hand, images were still sharp and ‘usable’! Enjoy!
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AirBridge Cargo 747-8F
Air France’s new HOP! regional ERJ 190
Speedbird’s A321 taxis to a mid-runway departure position
Perhaps the most peculiar sighting that I’ve ever made at Frankfurt. This China Southern ERJ 145 (along with 5 others) had recently been sold to a Russian start up and have yet to be repainted. So no, this ERJ is not flying to Beijing!
No mistaking this Etihad A340 sporting the beautiful F1 livery.
‘Siegerflieger’ was nearly a mile away. It took every bit of the lens’ 600mm to bring this beauty closer!
What is becoming an endangered species, this LH 737 is preparing to depart from a mid-runway position. LH will be retiring the rest of their 737s during 2015.
Yankee Papa, the 1500th 747 to be built by Boeing, is arriving from the west.
‘Yankee Quebec’ is Lufthansa’s newest 747-8i. It was delivered to the airline in August 2014.
Lufthansa’s D-AILF, an A319, rotates for a perfect photo…..
Another LH A319 departing FRA….there would be a few dozen of these! 🙂
Lufthansa Cargo’s ‘Charlie Lima’ arrives from the west during the late afternoon.
TAM’s 777 arriving from Brazil
Thomas Cook’s 767 begins her take off roll…..
Turkish Cargo A330-200 Freighter
Ukraine International’s 737 arriving from Kiev
by Lufthansa Flyer | Oct 23, 2014 | Airlines, Airports, Featured, Plane Spotting |
As the heading indicates, I was surprised when I transited ‘JNB’ a few weeks ago as to the quality plane spotting that is possible at the airport. It’s not so much for the traffic, which is fairly unique and diverse, but for the fact that JNB has a very nice enclosed observation deck overlooking most of the airport’s international departure gates.
The observation deck is located pre-security and is easy to find thanks to very clear signage leading you the area. I only had about 30 minutes to spend on the deck as I needed to get airside for some last minute shopping and for our flight to Frankfurt, but even so, I had an opportunity for a few nice ‘catches’.
‘Zurich’ would be our ride to FRA.
Etihad’s A330: A6-AGA
Mango’s 737 taxis to her runway
A first for me, ProFlight Zambia’s Jet Stream 41
A late afternoon arrival from Sydney
This is Qatar’s 2nd oldest 787, departing for Doha.
South African’s very colorful A340-300 on her takeoff roll.
SWISS’ A340 towed to the gate ahead of an evening departure to Zurich
