Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA, KIWA, IWA) "Willie"

[Jeff D. Welker]

Bert & Squirt...
Bombardier Challenger 300 being followed by his little friend; a Cessna 501

[mrblujet]

Hello all.

I wanted to post another movie that I made using photos I have taken at Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport over the past few years.  Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks.

http://youtu.be/sTK1NhbB5Ls

[Joe Copalman]

Looks like a good collection of shots, as well as in the PHX thread.  Please feel free to upload the photos themselves to the forum.

[Brian Lockett]

Boeing 747-830 International N6067U kicks up spray as it makes a mid-field departure from Willie into a thunderstorm.  Moments earlier, a dust storm had reduced visibility to zero for s short while.

It first flew on April 26, 2011. It will be delivered to Lufthansa Airlines as D-ABYE. Its construction number is 37826.

Looks like a typical Paine Field shot.

[Jeff D. Welker]

Very nice catch Brian. I love to see different weather conditions at Willie other than the typical bright sun and cloudless blue skies.

[Joe Copalman]

It landed under clear blue skies at Boeing Field at the conclusion of this flight.  Ultimate weather-swap.

[Joe Copalman]

VMA-542 blowing through town en route to WTI last year:

[Brian Lockett]

Very nice catch Brian. I love to see different weather conditions at Willie other than the typical bright sun and cloudless blue skies.

Thanks Jeff.  The thundercell spawned a microburst that blew a dust cloud across the airport as the 747 taxied out.
  The 110-degree wind blew dust in my eyes and I could fee l grit in my teeth.

After taxiing to the south end for a runway 30 departure, the 747 disappeared in the rain.  It taxied back to mid field and departed from Runway 12.  I have more photos of its departure on my web site at Air-and-Space.com.

[Jeff D. Welker]

Heads Up...

[Jeff D. Welker]

Spook Patrol...

[Jeff D. Welker]

Aluminum tubes glistening in the late afternoon sun...

[Warbird Keith]

Anybody catch the 3 Super Pumas that came in for Gas n go?

[Joe Copalman]

No, when did they come in?

[Jeff D. Welker]

Anybody catch the 3 Super Pumas that came in for Gas n go?

I was at Willie late afternoon/evening to catch those three aluminum tubes. I must have missed the "Heads Up" that someone posted on these helos; otherwise, I would have made a try at catching them.

[Joe Copalman]

There wasn't a heads-up.  I had no idea.  Not sure if Jack has been out there or not.  Wondering if they're the Pumas that have been buzzing around the Northwest.  I think Paul Carter caught them up at McMinnville or thereabouts.  Would have loved to have caught them, but had no idea they were even in the state.