2010-05-21

CYYZ Toronto (19-05-2010) Part 3

Third day, a full blue sky!
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Note the leakage of fuel on the left wing
Simply the perfect colors!
Lan Chile to New-york and Santiago. Very nice livery!
Air India
Lucky shot! An Lufthansa'747 with beacon flashing

I dream to take a picture like that since a long time. I wished have a bigger plane with a full moon, but it's better than nothing...
Lufthansa A340 with Star Alliance livery
And finally, Alitalia departing to Rome


CYYZ Toronto (18-05-2010) Part 2

The second day was more sunny! My first plan of the day was to go to the Aviation World shop. (www.aviatioworld.net) I went out with an MD-11 model plane and a book about severe weather. Winds always came from East, so I decided to go again on Dixie Rd for 05 approach.
When I arrived there, the wind shifted to the south, which gave arrivals on the 05 and 06 runway... Exactly the opposite of were I was !
Anyway, I was happy, because landing on the 05 are the most impressive! As these pictures show it.
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Maybe a great surprise of my 3 days spotting, a 1960 Tchekoslovak training plane (Aero L-29 Delfin / Reg: N29VN). Before landing, it made a low fly pass at high speed above the airport!
British with a B777. The reg was G-RAES, which honour the Royal Aeronautical Society.
By the way, this plane was also damaged in ground collision at Luanda (Angola)
Old "Mad Dog"
Now some B767 have wingtips. For me, it's a touch of elegance, and the Austrian livery is beautiful!

From Pakistan, with a stop at London


Aerosvit from Kiev
Lot Polish from Warsaw



View from my bedroom at Carlingview, not too bad :)
By the way, winds switched back to east, and this KLM 747 departed on runway 06L
Next to my hotel, here is BA leaving to London at sunset

2010-05-20

CYYZ Toronto (17-05-2010) Part 1

During my 3 days in Toronto, dominants winds came from east and north. Obviously, this is what I didn't want because the configuration for runways were bad for spotting. Arrivals on runways 05, 06L and 06R are relatively hard to photograph. Nevertheless, her is the result of my first day...
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I was happy to take a picture of these 2 future European Dash 8!



Westjet with special livery

EK241 from Dubai came during the rush hour


Westjet 007 alias "James Bond"

Jet Airways to Brussels