Happy Thanksgiving to My Readers

 As a tradition of sorts, I like to wish all my readers a Happy Thanksgiving.  I am thankful to all of you for reading my blog.  It is what keeps me going.

I try to post a turkey related picture.  This is a plane that flies from Turkey.  Does that work for you?

A Stop at Metro

 After I realized that the Yankee Lady wasn't going to make another pass, I checked to see what was coming into Metro Airport.  I figured this was around the time I could catch Turkish.

First up was a CRJ-900 coming in from Harrisburg.

The Turkish Airlines plane was the next in the pattern.

It was a 787 coming in from Istanbul.

Which is not Constantinople.

It's cool that there is another 787 flight that comes into Detroit.

And it's fairly nice livery to boot.

One more shot because I like the looks of the 787.

Then I saw that there was a 757 coming in, so I stayed a little bit longer.

A little fall foilage.

This particular 757 was coming in from Atlanta.

I'm not sure if its a regular flight or a positioning flight.

Either way, it is cool to see.

The light was just about right.

One more because I like the 757.

A beacon shot on a CRJ-900 coming in from Cleveland.

Then I saw that there was a flight coming in from Air France.

This is an A350.  It reminds me of a 787 but I like this plane too.

Like the 787, it is made out of composites.

That makes it light.  In fact, there is an A350 flight from Sydney to New York.  I believe it is the longest direct flight.

This particular one was coming in from Paris, so it wasn't quite a long.

Still a cool plane.

And in nice light.

Another CRJ-900.  This one was coming in from Rochester, New York.

I saw that there was one more cool plane coming in.

This particular one was a UPS 767 coming in from Louisville.

I don't usually catch the big UPS planes because they come in the early morning.

Usually it is dark out when they come in.

So I was happy to catch this one.

The 757 and 767 were designed at about the same time and Boeing made sure that the controls were common so that if you could fly one, you could fly the other.

Shame they didn't apply that to other designs.

A Brief Stop at the Airport

After catching the ship, I didn't quite want to head back home, so I took a look to see what was coming into the airport and it looked like there were a few interesting planes.  So I stopped at the airport on the way home.

First up was a Spirit Airlines A320 coming in from Atlanta.

A Delta Airlines 737 coming in from Las Vegas.  The planes were all landing on the west side of the airport, so that made this a little easier.

A CRJ-900 coming in from Pittsburgh.

It was followed by a Spirit Airlines A320neo.

This one was coming in from Las Vegas as well.

An Alaska Airlines 737 coming in from Seattle.

Another 737, this one was coming in from Minneapolis.

One of the planes that I was waiting for.

A Fed Ex 767.

This was flight 505 from Memphis.

Another of the planes that I was waiting for.

This was a Turkish Airlines 787.

It was coming in from Istanbul (not Constantinople).

This is one that I wasn't expecting.  It was a Southwest 737 from Baltimore.  If it looks a little blurry, it was taken through my window.

One of the other planes that I was looking for.

This is an Air France A350.

It was coming from Paris.

I am growing to like the looks of these planes.

But I still like the 787 more.

An A220-300.

This is the largest version of the A220.

It was coming in from Houston.

An a321 coming in from LaGuardia.

Another Southwest 737.  This one was a MAX and it was coming from Midway.

A Sun Country 737 coming in from Gulf Port.

A CRJ-900 coming in from MBS airport near Bay City, MI.

A 717.

This is the final descendant of the DC-9.  These are going to be retired within the next few years.  This one was coming in from Buffalo.

The last of the planes that I was looking for.

And of course it is a 757.

This particular one was coming in from Atlanta.

I think it is a transfer plane.

One more shot.