Blue Angels Skyhawk 1984

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National Guard Civil Support Team WMD

It was slightly unusual to see a WMD response team in the Costco parking lot. Are the $5 rotisserie chickens really that bad? Yikes!

Special D. Livery

Gulfstream owned by German superstar DJ and dance music artist "Special D."

 Creative Commons photo by Alec Wilson from Hampton-in-Arden, UK.

N483HA

N88899 1978 Emroth-emair MA-1B c/n041

Gilster-Mary Lee Trucking

There are so many of these trucks, they even show up on Airplane Life.

Atlanta Bureau file photo.

PEZ Machine

Choosing a Paragliding School

Beware of shady, inexpeienced flight instructors.

Kodak Picture Kiosk

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Hawaiian Airlines N484HA Flight 118 Diverted Emergency Landing Maui

Operating as HA118 on 5/12/15, N484HA departed HNL enroute KOA and diverted to OGG after an engine "stopped working."

Engine was smoking upon arrival, and fire crews sprayed it with shaving cream.

Dodger Stadium California Drought Photo

It seems that even Dodger Stadium has restrictions about watering the grass.

Thanks to Frederick Dennstedt for use of the photo.

Paris CDG Airplane Spotting Air Austral, Air India, Kenya Airways

From our Euro correspondent :

N253WC, N8566E

Let me guess. You're wife thinks you're a nutcase because every time you see an aircraft in a movie or on TV, you look up the registration number, right?

They neglected to add a digital pilot to this fake jet's fake takeoff: 

I couldn't get the registration on this awesome 1975 livery Speedbird:

N583HA Hawaiian Air Flight 24 5/1/2015 Emergency Landing Kahului Maui

The aircraft that made an emergency landing at Kahului today was N583HA. Shown in Seattle. The same aircraft suffered a broken windshield enroute from OAK to HNL on 1/18/2015.

Plane Spotting SEATAC Airport

Unmanned Helicopter

Monaco Formula 1Grand Prix 2015

The grandstands are being put in, and it looks to be on schedule for the race May 24.

Yard Work

I mowed the lawn here at the house. 'Could have used more help.

"Walking Dead" Livery Delta N757AT

Living Near The Airport

Vintage LAX Ghost Town Pictures

A reader recently commented about the "Ghost Town" near LAX.

A view of the "Surfridge" area while arriving to the East on the North complex.

I seem to recall an incident in a '63 T-Bird in this area... 

This shot by LBBC shows what was the premier spotting location at LAX back in the day. We spent many hours there. 

A warp in the fabric of time allowed us to briefly revisit the site back '07. 

United 787 LAX Airport Water Landing

An unusually high tide.

Photo by Billy Shears.

Sky Harbor

Happy Easter From Airplane Life !

N587CA Convair CV-580

Aircraft recently flew a nonstop that lasted 11½ hrs. Built in 1957.

Click link for : FlightAware .

Cloak and Dagger

We're not sure what these operatives were up to, but we took a picture of the handoff and sent it to the Embassy.

Plane Spotting Luke AFB

Right between those two signs was always one of the better places.

Easyriders Ghostrider David Mann

You don't see many of those posters any more.

Airplane Life Apparel Collection

The Airplane Life apparel collection is now available HERE AT THIS LINK .

N821PA Grumman Gulfstream II-SP

Chrysler Aviation. cn 183.

Prison Escape Using Helicopter

Delta Flight 1086 La Guardia LGA N909DL MD-80 No Fatalities

Nobody died in this incident because the "MD" Series of McDonnell Douglas aircraft have a stronger fuselage than similar planes. An Airbus would have broken in half.

The arrows in the pictures below show the "crease" that divides the cross-section into two semicircles. Two circles are stronger than one. It makes the fuselage stronger.

The All New Corvette

Park in Front of a Fire Hydrant

Fire hydrant - check. Red zone - check. Crosswalk - check.