Sky Harbor

Joe Copalman · September 06, 2009, 12:20:26 PM

Rob's spot wound up being a very good one.

John S · September 06, 2009, 12:46:29 PM

I hate it when I don't get to bed until 2am, I'll have to get it later.
Does anyone know why there are 4 US Airways ~~keys~~ jets (stupid iphone trying to correct me) parked near the west end of the airport? They have been there at least the last 2 days? One was Arizona paint scheme. There was 5 there today.

John

PHX Photo · September 06, 2009, 12:54:56 PM

I got there late, and not knowing my way around, I just headed to Terminal 4. Here's what I got from there:

There are more on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mister326/sets/72157621957061535/

Matt Ottosen · September 06, 2009, 01:24:39 PM

Nice shots, Dan!

Rob Silliman · September 06, 2009, 01:33:29 PM

Quote from: Joe Copalman on September 06, 2009, 12:20:26 PM
Rob's spot wound up being a very good one.

Thanks - but don't forget to thanks Chris for the heads up.

Rob

Joe Copalman · September 06, 2009, 03:00:17 PM

Has anyone been able to find any information on this in the local media? azcentral.com, KTVK and FOX10's website don't have anything about this.

John S · September 07, 2009, 08:31:27 AM

Air China departing at 9:51 for Grand Canyon and scheduled to land at PHX at 12:25, got info off of FlightAware, click link from yesterday

John

Joe Copalman · September 07, 2009, 10:55:09 AM

Caught the departure to KGCN this morning - pretty much all belly shots.

Flightaware is showing a return time of 12:20pm today. Sounds like they're doing the Clark Griswold tour of the Grand Canyon.

Rob Silliman · September 07, 2009, 10:59:40 AM

My guess that the load was very light, or the pilot started w/ the brakes on at full throttle. It was off the ground by Terminal 4 and climbing fast.

Joe Copalman · September 07, 2009, 11:23:11 AM

Yup. T4 would have been a much better spot this time around.

Joe Copalman · September 08, 2009, 08:15:40 AM

Looking like a 10:28am departure this morning. Traffic is already moving east to west.

Joe Copalman · September 08, 2009, 09:20:59 AM

Since all the local news sites seemed to have ignored this story, here's a link to Xinhua's story on the visit:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/07/content_12010818.htm

Ridiculous that we have to go to China for our local news now.

Rob Silliman · September 08, 2009, 10:49:42 AM

Here is the picture from the arrival/landing Sunday morning.

News:

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