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The primary purpose of this blog is to showcase the best of my aviation photography. As such, you will find links to my main aviation gallery on Facebook containing photos from aircraft spotting, some kind of aviation event such as air shows and fly-in events, as well as aviation museums. I also critique my flights on commercial airlines and the services they provide. Occassionally, you'll find personally written, independent articles based on news and current events involving aviation. And of course, I'll put up links to official and unofficial aviation-related websites when I find them. And when time permits, I'll talk and discuss about anything involving aviation. But most importantly, this is my way to document my journey into the aviation industry!

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Gallery Update: General Aviation Traffic

I've finally photographed some fixed-wing aircraft in flight with my new camera! While at the Legacy Flight Museum today, I stepped out back onto the tarmac during the nice springtime weather and observed and photographed quite a bit of traffic. But today's photos aren't certainly the first; the first fixed-wing aircraft photo I got was yesterday while I was walking on campus at BYU-Idaho, so I got this from an off-airport setting. Here are the links:

Off-Airport 3 (Updated)

Rexburg (RXE) 23

Preview:

The aircraft I saw yesterday was an Air Tractor AT-802 (N9002K) working the pattern at Rexburg. This aircraft is based in Rigby and serves as an aerial firefighter, most likely on station for eastern Idaho in the event of any fires breaking out.

My first warbird in flight shot and highlight of the day is courtesy of the North American SNJ-5 Texan known as 'Lil Ashlee.' From what I heard, the aircraft was heading down to Idaho Falls to participate in a photo-op with a P-51B Mustang that was recently restored by Pacific Fighters.

I love this livery! Gotta love the shark mouth on the nose! An Aviat A-C1-180 Husky departing Rexburg after using the grass runway.

I like this particular paint scheme because my favorite color is green and there are different shades of it here. Cessna 182D Skylane slowing down after touching down in Rexburg.

Cessna T206H Stationair (N15EA) departing Rexburg. This one wasn't around too long; they landed and quickly cleared the runway, taxied back to the runway and took back off again.

Cessna 170 (N3910V) taking off. This one stayed close by and worked the pattern.

Cirrus SR22 (N321BR) departing Rexburg. This one didn't take much runway to get in the air!

The most unique sight of the day was this Rutan VariEze (N410U) taxiing out for departure. On take-off, this aircraft used most of the runway, as seems to be a common case for most aircraft with rear-mounted engines.

Piper PA-22-160 Tri-Pacer (N8414D) converted a conventional landing gear (tailwheel) configuration departing Rexburg.
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