A Hazy Night at the Airport

 I looked at the sky this morning and it looked cloudy, so I didn't really feel motivated to go anywhere.  Usually when that is the case, I end up at the airport.  I was thinking of going to the airport anyway because my cousin's wife was returning from Germany and I was hoping to catch a picture of her flight.

First up was an AeroMexico flight.

It has been a while since I've seen this airline.  This particular flight was an Embrear 190 coming in from Monterrey.

It was followed by a Sun Country 737 from Minneapolis.  I don't think I've seen this livery yet.

It seems like it was my day to see the 717.  This one was coming in from Buffalo.

This was my cousin's wife's flight.

It was an A330 coming in from Amsterdam.  It was also 2 hours late.  Looking at Flight Radar, it must have caught every storm on the Atlantic.

A CRJ-900 coming in from Bay City.

A 717 coming in from Philadelphia.

Another CRJ-900.  This one was coming in from Harrisburg.

An A320 with the confusing tail number of N321US coming in from Albany.

An Embrear Phenom coming in from Holland, Michigan.

A 757 coming in from Santa Ana.

Another shot of that.

A CRJ-700 coming in from Chattanooga.

A Jet Blue E190 coming in from Boston.

A Spirit A320 coming in from the World of the Mouse.

An A319 coming in from LaGuardia.

Another 717.  This one was coming in from PHilly (I think).

Another 717, but I'm not sure where.

My other highlight.

A 777.

this one was coming in from Paris.

One more shot.

A 757-300.

this one was coming in from Seattle.

A 717 coming in from Charlotte.

A Southwest Airlines 737 coming in from Midway.

And another 717.  This one was coming in from Portland, Maine.

A West Jet 737 coming in from Calgary.

A CRJ-900 coming in from Toronto.

My other highlight of the day.

This was a 757-200.

It was coming in from Atlanta.

Because I like this plane.

I mean really like it.

One more before heading home.

Lunchtime Planespotting

So it was a nice afternoon today and I decides to go out and bring lunch back to work so that I could take some plane pictures.  There a few clouds but I like having clouds in some of my pictures.

 First up was a Cessna from the Ann Arbor Airport doing touch and goes. 

 As I looked to the other parts of the sky, I caught the crescent moon and I liked the way it was hanging over a bank of clouds.

 This plane might have been too far away, but it is a 757, so I have to post it.

Next up was a 737 belonging to Southwest.

 This time the Cessna flew a little closer to our building. 

 This was an Airbus 320 belonging to Jet Blue.  I think it was on its way to LaGuardia.

 It wasn't too long before the 747 heading to Narita appeared.  It was a little ways away though.  This picture was taken at about 12:45, it will be in Japan in roughly 2 hours from this post.  This means this was a 14 hour flight.

 Shortly after the Narita 747, the 747 that was headed to Incheon

 This will be in Korea in about a two and a half hours, making this one almost 15.5 hours.

And then she goes off to Korea.

Catching the 757's

I had an audit up at the Troy office today.  It got done early enough for me to enjoy some of the afternoon.  We did really well too.
Anyway, I didn't see any traffic on the river, so I decided to stop at the airport on the way home.  Unfortunately, I missed the 747 by about 10 minutes but I still had a pretty good hour planewatching.

 The first plane I caught was a Southwest Airlines 737 arriving from Denver International Airport.  I kind of like this color scheme.

 An MD-88 flying in from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, GA.  Hartsfield-Jackson Airport had its beginnings as the Atlanta Speedway.  It was abandoned and in 1925 it was developed into an airfield by then Atlanta Mayor Walter Sims.  The field was originally named Candler Field.  The first flight was a Florida Airways airmail plane in September of 1926.  In 1928, the first passenger service into Atlanta was established by Pitcairn Airlines.  Delta Airlines started flying from there in 1930 as Delta Air Service.  Pitcairn would later become Eastern Airlines.  Delta of course would remain Delta.  It immediately became the third busiest airport in the United States behind New York and Chicago.
In 1940, the US Government declared part of it as a military field and during the war it was the busiest airport in the country.  In 1946, it would be renamed Atlanta Airport.  Up until 1961, the furthest nonstop flight out of Atlanta was to Chicago.  The current terminal was built in 1977 and was named after Mayor William B. Hartsfield because he was a large supporter of aviation.  It received it's current name when it was co-named after Mayor Maynard Jackson in 2003 after his death.
In 2015, it would become the first airport to serve 100 million passengers in a year.  It has been the world's busiest airports in terms of passengers served since 1998.

 I think this CRJ-900 was coming from Cleveland Airport.

 A Robinson helicopter.

 This CRJ-200 is operated by SkyWest and was arriving from Kalamazoo.  Speaking of which, College Game Day will be visiting Western Michigan tomorrow.

 FlightAware doesn't have any information on where this plane was coming from.  But it is an ERJ-145.

 This Airbus A320 was coming from Denver.

 An Airbus A320 belonging to Delta Airlines arrives from Miami.

 This Southwest 737 took off from Chicago Midway Airport at 2:05 Central Time.  It was landing in Detroit at 3:45 Eastern Time.

 Delta 2520 cleared to land on Runway 22L.  Delta 2520 is the flight from San Francisco to Detroit.

 This Frontier Airbus A319 was arriving from Trenton.  As I type this post, it is on its way back after going to Raleigh-Durham.

 Another shot of Delta Flight 2520.

 And this United Airbus A319 was coming from O'Hare.

This American MD-80 was coming from Dallas-Fort Worth.

 I'm not sure where this ERJ-145 was coming from.

 This 737 was coming from Minneapolis.

 And this Boeing 717 was arriving from Nashville.

 And this American Airlines A320 was coming from the Phoenix Sky Harbor.

 As I was getting ready to leave, I took one more look at FlightAware and saw that a 757 was arriving from Atlanta.

 I decided to move to my other plane watching spot, since I figured it would be landing at the far east runway.

 I'm glad I did because the lighting was perfect for this one.

 Although the 757 would look good in any lighting.

And I leave you with a Mad Dog.