Nice!

As once before, nothing as exciting as Vampyre's shots (sorry, man, for cluttering your excellent thread with these!), and I've really got to work on getting a better camera than my iPad's for opportunity snaps. Just some working aircraft I happen to see...

On the 18 March, this American Airlines A-320 (the background one) had to do an emergency return to Reina Beatrix, Aruba, after losing its green hydraulic system shortly after departure. Landing gear extension had to be by the gravity alternate method. I also taped some of the radio chatter from the day...



Don't need to say anything about these that you don't all know already, save that the first is Colombian Army SAR, at El Dorado Intl, Bogota, and the second shot are Peruvian Army, at Jorge Chavez, Intl, Lima.



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Also at Bogota, this one taken today. Tell me what you can about them, particularly the units, please!



Also at Bogota, the other day (Tracer will like this one, a version of it is a favorite of his on FSX). Not an N number registered aircraft, and it had "United States of America" written above the windows (can't see it here due to sun reflection and bad, uncontrollable iPad camera exposure), so I suspect it is either military or CIA, on some Plan Colombia assignment, perhaps (?).



Getting to be a rare bird in flying order these days, also at Bogota...



Three generations of transport aircraft (that's an airworthy Curtiss C-46, amazing!), Bogota...



And last, not a picture of an aircraft, but from an aircraft of the old racetrack, the short and long track, at Yahuarcocha, Ecuador, where 32 years ago I started my lifelong affair with high speed...



Hope you like them, and again, sorry they are not up to Vampyre's standards.

Thanks Vampyre, that satisfied exactly the sort of curiosity I had! LOL! I knew I could count on you.

Cool to see our trainers made the flight down!

Great pictures, again. Love the shots of the Lightnings!

Pity they couldn't have had a BAC Lightning, too, seeing as they managed to get a Hawk there. When I was at Wattisham, around about 1992 or so, I remember an airworthy example visiting for the anniversary of either 56 or 74 Squadron (can't remember which now, sorry). It unfortunately overran the end of the runway by a small margin, IIRC, with no significant damage. I didn't see the event itself, but it was able to taxi under its own "steam" afterwards and went past the hangar where I was working on a ASK-13 glider, with its screeching, deafening Avons going. Wonderful!

I SEE CENTER TANK ON THAT F-15!!!!! bad fuel economy!

Tweaked up the graphics settings on FSX and edited the screenie with Corel. Passing it off here as a real picture, LOL!

Fourth from the end there famailiar in form as hell, but a couple of incidentals catch my eye...

I see a Constellation's tail behind the Flogger. Funny old thing, my instructor on the course I'm on right now is an old boy who was ex Connie co-pilot on Eastern Airlines, of all things. Such a cool looking airliner, one of the first pressurized. Also, behind the Flogger in the other shot, I'm certain that is a Caravelle, first aircraft ever to do a full autoland. Had the same noisy Avon engines as the British Canberra. LOL!

But the best one there for one of our members who loves obliterating FARPs with nukes is that B-58 next to the Canberra. He knows who he is, and that aircraft is perfect for him...

Great pics, Vampyre! I'm enjoying these.

The Chilean Navy there, too. For a long, skinny country out of the way on the west coast of South America, it once upon a time played a disproportionate role in naval matters and the associated resources to the extent it even influenced the decisions and strategies of the major powers at the turn of the 19th / 20th centuries. Must have been a bit of an honorary participant in this exercise, though, lol!