photoJDL
@photojdl
Visual Content Manager @WoodlandParkZoo. Mechanical ornithologist, C-list aviation personality and freelance content producer.
Nice to see this sharp beaver pop into Kenmore last night before scooting off for home.
Heart dropped hearing Kenmore Air has an Otter down on Sucia Island (N709KA), with local pilot/boating networks reporting multiple survivors. Let's hope it's all 11.
Haven't been doing much in the way of airplanes lately, but been making lots of photos. Here's some recent ones I kinda liked.
RIP Magnicharters. If you ever wanted to nurse a complimentary beer on a 733 flying between MEX and a handful of resort towns on a ticket that, when booked, prompted your CC to freeze the account due to suspected fraud, Magnicharters had your back. I hope their staff land elsewhere soon.
Been awhile since I posted. Still here, just really busy Here's some airplanes from the last month
Say what you will about Spirit as a business, but as the end appears to draw near, remember too that it's a business made up of a ppl whose rent, mortgage payments, groceries and healthcare came from being a Spirit employee.
Alrighty avgeeks of the internet…got this SWA safety card without a date. Can anyone figure it out or happen to know the year?
Not the best day, but here's a newly scanned Lockheed Electra L188 brochure from 1957: www.flickr.com/photos/jplph...
Introducing a new series: Airlines you probably haven't heard of before, safety cards edition. S1E1, Metro Airlines. No not that one. This one began in Houston in 69, operating Twin Otters from their own custom-built STOL field near NASA's Johnson Space Center to HOU and IAH.
The estate sale gods giveth and taketh away. But today, today they giveth enormously.
That’s it for tonight…nose looks a little more Antonov to me than Douglas, but either way really liking how it’s shaping together.