Airbus A300

[wingsnstuff]

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[bilwor]

Airbus A300F4-605R Fed EX KTUS 08/05/10

[jslugman]

Warming up the morning air at Tucson (not that it needed it).

[jslugman]

Just out of curiosity, when the mains retract on the bigger airliners do they apply braking to the tires thus accounting for the (suspected) brake dust in this shot???

[Dave S.]

James,

I do believe that is correct, brakes are applied prior to retraction.  I don't think they want spinning tires inside the wheel well, so close to hydraulic lines and such.

- Dave

[Jbong]

Warming up the morning air at Tucson (not that it needed it).

I love this photo nicely done. I am interested in knowing what aircraft is that silver one with the red lettering. It's next the engine.

[Jay Beckman]

Rake of the windscreen looks like an RJ to me (Italian Flagged?)

[jslugman]

I'll have to go take a look, it sits across the runway at the service center with loads of other foreign-flagged aircraft.

[bilwor]

The aircraft in question is Canadair CRJ-100ER msn 7144  Alma de Mexico Airlines  XA-UFX

[jslugman]

Thanks for looking Bill.

[Jbong]

Yes thanks alot.

[jslugman]

Nice to see Prandtl and Glauert finally make an appearance.

FedEx Airbus A300 N720FE "Amrit" KTUS by James O'Rear acc0849 by James "JSlugman" O'Rear, on Flickr

[Joe Copalman]

A300 at KTUS:

[Brian Lockett]

Early morning departure from Sky Harbor today:
FedEx A300F4-605R N692FE

[Daniel DeSart]