Had an opportunity to photography my first Bombardier Global Express 7500 recently. This company has FOUR of them!! This one is a "one-off" from Bombardier, that someone was going to buy and at the last minute, backed out. So Bombardier contacted this company to see if they would be interested in buying it, while another of their "custom ordered" 7500's was being built.
The custom ordered one, is about to be delivered, so this one's up for sale.
They obviously put a lot of thought into the paint scheme, SARCASM !!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!! He is Risen!!
Have a great week. Off to photograph a PC-12 tomorrow.
Might I ask, these jets, are they for personal, private or commuter use? Or all of the above! I know that many people are flying by private jets rather than commercial.
This aircraft is part of a family's holding company, they own a LOT of different businesses, this is just one of FOUR that they own. I'd say business is pretty good, for them.
JayDavis wrote:
Thanks Dan, I appreciate your kind words.
This aircraft is part of a family's holding company, they own a LOT of different businesses, this is just one of FOUR that they own. I'd say business is pretty good, for them.
Thanks..just wondering....Entrepreneurship.. What makes America GREAT!
You Texas boys be glad to know these five Air Tractors are headed to Texas this Wednesday...Freshly done up in Minnesota...I know you guys had that one big fire that was pretty bad a month or so ago, hopefully these will help for the up coming summer and years to come.
We had a milestone, too. Monday, April 1 was the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force. I went to the unveiling of the monument commemorating this event.
It was cold and windy, but the fly-past of the F-18s was way cool. It was great to be back to the roots of my youth.
Please forgive the cellphone photo. I didn't know what I could bring with me, so I didn't.
Bill Gass wrote:
You Texas boys be glad to know these five Air Tractors are headed to Texas this Wednesday...Freshly done up in Minnesota...I know you guys had that one big fire that was pretty bad a month or so ago, hopefully these will help for the up coming summer and years to come.
Have never seen planes like these brother!
"Air Tractors eh"? And from Minn-e-so-ta!
Super job!
Dan
I had posted this earlier but I had some errors (thank you Pete👍 ) and with a busy morning I didn't have time to correct it, so...
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) use to spend some winter weeks flying with us at Ellington AFB/Field. They were flying the F-101 VooDoo and we were flying the F-102 Delta Dagger and the F-101, plus the T-33. When they came down to fly with us I was often assigned as a crew chief for one of their F101 VooDoos. These guys were fun to work with and crazy. When they would depart to return to Canada, they would always do something crazy. After my buddy and I launched them for their homebound flight, we would wait at least 10 minutes or so because they would always do something crazy before they left. We waited, but nothing happened and they were out of sight to the south.
We finished cleaning up the two slots and began walking to the hanger down the center of the taxiway between our two rows of fighters with our backs to the south. We saw a guy point behind us and as we looked to see what it was, we saw the two F-101s in formation about 30 feet off the ground coming right over us. We both did a face plant on the yellow taxi line and we could feel the heat from their exhaust as they pulled up. I guess that was their goodbye kiss.
Bill Gass wrote:
1600hp Crop Duster with Floats.
The crop dusters around me Bill are those old fashioned 502POV's or even my nearest neighbor has an old Navy Stearman outfitted with removable "dusters". Only a 1 "seater" due to tanks!
