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 Surprise Visitor to Detroit Metro

As I said in the last post, I found out that there was going to be a special visitor coming to Detroit Metro.

When I got up to the parking deck to watch said visitor, I saw that Detroit had another surprise visitor.  This P-8 Poseidon belongs to VP-30 out of Jacksonville, Florida.  I'm not sure why it was here though.

An A300 belonging to UPS.

This A330 was on its way to Amsterdam.

An American 737 heading to Charlotte.

I liked the looks of it as it climbed up.

Another American 737 but it was heading to Dallas.

A United E175 heading to Newark.

I'm not sure where this Spirit Aircraft is heading.

Another United E175 but I'm not sure where it is heading.

A Southwest 737.

A Delta A321 heading to Atlanta.

SAme a little higher.

An A320 heading to Miami.

Some but flying by.

I'm not sure where this CRJ is heading.

An American A320.

A shot with the beacon.

An E175 coming in.

Another A321 heading to Atlanta.

An A321 coming in from LAX.

An American 737 heading off to Charlotte.

A 717 coming in from St. Louis.

An A320 heading somewhere.

The State Police helicopter indicated that the plane I was waiting for would be taking off soon.

It was making sure there was nobody around.

The special visitor turned out to be Air Force One.  President Biden was in town today but I'm not sure what for.

This makes the third time I've see this plane.

It starts the takeoff role.

And starts to lift into the sky.

I think this is my favorite.

And it climbs into the air.

I will have to admit, this is a pretty impressive looking aircraft.

And it turns off to Washington DC.  Like I said, this is a pretty impressive aircraft even though the livery looks pretty low key.  I hope that they have an updated version of this for the new VC-25s getting built.