Over the previous couple of years, Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport has invited some native AvGeeks, who love sharing their airline ardour on-line, to a particular gathering. All of us meet up airside and get a rundown of the day, undergo safety, then pile into a couple of vans and head out to the airfield, all underneath escort from airport ops. That half alone is fairly entertaining and enjoyable, but it surely will get higher from there.
BONUS: Our SEA AvGeeks Airfield Day Images from 2003
We obtained to spend a bit over 4 hours between runways 16L/34R and 16C/34C, and it was superior. I simply introduced my iPhone to share pictures on our social media, however fortunately our Francis Zera was there too; he takes manner higher pictures than me. It’s only a completely totally different expertise to be so near the plane after they taxi, takeoff, and land.
It felt like you can attain out and contact the winglets of the vast our bodies as they taxied by (I didn’t attempt). We did get fairly a couple of confused seems to be by flight crew, adopted by many smiles and waves. In fact the continued joke all through the day (not less than it was humorous to me) was calling out when an Alaska Boeing 737 or Embraer E-175 was taking off — there have been heaps and many these!
Out of all of the planes seen that day, the one which excited me probably the most was the FedEx MD-11. Such a basic. Such a magnificence! The second was an Alaska Air E-175 (let me end …) with the particular Horizon Air livery. As an ’80s baby, it introduced again reminiscences of flying on Horizon’s Sprint-8-100s, Metroliners, Fokker F27s, and Fokker F28s.
This yr for certain didn’t disappoint. Try all the extra pictures beneath!
Edelweiss Flies to Seattle & I Get Soaked!
