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Jun 12^th, 2007 at 8:30pm

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An An-124 Ruslan I shot a couple of months ago. Its not every day I see one of these.

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Reply #1 - Jun 12^th, 2007 at 8:46pm

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Awesome catch! Your lucky that you don't see these too often, that way it makes it more special and exciting when you do. Whereas for me they're buzzing around like no-bodies business and waking me up at 3am! Angry

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Reply #2 - Jun 12^th, 2007 at 9:13pm

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EGNX wrote on Jun 12^th, 2007 at 8:46pm:

Awesome catch! Your lucky that you don't see these too often, that way it makes it more special and exciting when you do. Whereas for me they're buzzing around like no-bodies business and waking me up at 3am! Angry

We get C-5s every now and then. They come in to shoot instrument approaches and hang around the traffic pattern sometimes. Sucks when they do because we have to wait at least 2 minutes prior to takeoff on the parallel runway due to wake turbulence. When they're doing touch-and-goes it can be a long wait sometimes. I have some pics of those as well that I'll get around to posting later.

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Reply #3 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 6:24am

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nice shots, weve had a few big birds fly over in the last few days, i havnt had my camera ready tho, had a C-141, C-17 and an L-1011 tanker and few jet formations, big excersise over here in aus at the moment, joint US army navy and aus army navy and raaf ex.

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Reply #4 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 6:57am

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EGNX wrote on Jun 12^th, 2007 at 8:46pm:

Awesome catch! Your lucky that you don't see these too often, that way it makes it more special and exciting when you do. Whereas for me they're buzzing around like no-bodies business and waking me up at 3am! Angry

More likely to be 767s and MD-11s (Lufthansa Cargo, UPS, etc).

Plus, if I was to be woken up at 3am by An-124s, I wouldn't be too annoyed! BMI Baby 737s, however... Grin

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Reply #5 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 7:06am

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Yeah that is an awesome find, a while ago I spotted an An-124 at KPHIL, it is an impressive site Shocked

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Reply #6 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 7:42am

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EGNX wrote on Jun 12^th, 2007 at 8:46pm:

Awesome catch! Your lucky that you don't see these too often, that way it makes it more special and exciting when you do. Whereas for me they're buzzing around like no-bodies business and waking me up at 3am! Angry

More likely to be 767s and MD-11s (Lufthansa Cargo, UPS, etc).

Plus, if I was to be woken up at 3am by An-124s, I wouldn't be too annoyed! BMI Baby 737s, however... Grin

Lol... An-124's are a nice site to see, but when you live under the Daventry 3P departure and they're taking off from 09 they are the only things that can wake me up. Sadly the Bmi's arn't really loud enough and they climb quite high on the departure whereas the An-124 tend to climb slow... plus I don't get many Bmi's over the house at 3am! Still.... I'd rather be woken up by An-124 than a car alarm at 3 in the morning! Roll Eyes

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Reply #7 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 7:46am

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Nice shots - gonna upload mine soon.

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Reply #8 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 8:14am

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Seen a 124 at EDDP a while ago. Wasn't as huge as I expected.

Nice snaps 'though.

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Reply #9 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 11:30am

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Björn wrote on Jun 13^th, 2007 at 8:14am:

Seen a 124 at EDDP a while ago. Wasn't as huge as I expected.

Nice snaps 'though.

I totally agree with that, i think its sized is pretty hyped up, i saw 2 a few days ago and they didn't shock me by the size of them, also it took of and climbed more quickly than a c-130

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Reply #10 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 1:37pm

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Did you guys see them next to "normal" planes? My first encounter with this model was at EBOS... it dwarfed all the other planes...

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Reply #11 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 4:16pm

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Omag 2.0 wrote on Jun 13^th, 2007 at 1:37pm:

Did you guys see them next to "normal" planes? My first encounter with this model was at EBOS... it dwarfed all the other planes...

An-124
Wing Span = 240 feet 6 inches (73.30 meters) thats 60 feet shy of a football field.
Length = 226 feet 9 inches (69.1m)
Height = 68 feet 2 inches (20.78m)
Wing area = 6760 square feet (620.0m²)

B777-200
Wing Span = 199 feet 11 inches (60.93m) 2/3 the length of a football field
Length = 209 feet 1 inch (63.93) compare that to the wingspan of the 124
Height = 60 feet 9 inches (18.51m)
Wing Area = 4605 square feet (427.8m²)

Cessna 172
Wing Span = 32 feet 10 inches (10.92m)
Length = 27 feet 2 inches (8.28m)
Height = 8 feet 10 inches (2.68m)

*all dimensions retrieved from airliners.net

A "normal" plane is just a bug on the windscreen

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Reply #12 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 4:18pm

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Great catch!!

He comes into PHL all the time but, of coarse I'm never there when he does!! Sad

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Reply #13 - Jun 13^th, 2007 at 4:22pm

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quite a regular visitor to east midlands, or seems to be there everytime I drive by.
Nice shots, it really is an impressive plane.

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Reply #14 - Jun 14^th, 2007 at 5:47am

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Omag 2.0 wrote on Jun 13^th, 2007 at 1:37pm:

Did you guys see them next to "normal" planes? My first encounter with this model was at EBOS... it dwarfed all the other planes...

I've seen the A380 next to other planes and it wasn't as impressive as its said to be.

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