Nice photos. Does anyone know if that Black Learjet belongs to Clay Lacy?

Well, it is just an inflight picture, not a trip report.
That’s why I placed it here.

Indeed, and a very fine one at that. However, we have 2 sub-forums, 1 for trip reports, and 1 for photographs.

Is that the only RJX that was built?

This summer I will go to New York (aug2 – aug10). Anyone familiar with spotting at its airports? I intend to do 2 or 3 days of spotting at EWR and JFK if possible. Preferrably I would not want to hire a car, so the spots should be accesible by public transport.

Also, on the way back I got 3 hours to kill in DTW (got to do something to fly a DC9). With this time getting landside will not be possible, so how are the views airside? And how wise would it be to go around the terminal with the Canon and telelens? Will there be no problems, or can I expect captain America to harass me for being a terrorist.

I’ve never flown through DTW so I can’t help you there. I’ve never spotted at any of the NY airports, I’ve just flown in and out of all of them. There is a really good website you can visit that has spotting maps and directions for LGA and JFK. I just looked at it and they only have directions if you have a car for JFK, but they have directions with public transport for LGA. No info is posted yet for EWR. It’s http://www.nycaviation.com. Phil Derner is the president. He’s a rather popular photographer on a.net for photos @ JFK. I met him at at Airliners04 when it was in LAX a couple years ago. Really nice guy. If you go on there or contact him at [email]phil@nycaviation.com[/email], I’m sure he’ll give you some useful info. Hope this helps. What are you doing the other 7 or 8 days in NY?

How long has that been open? I know they had the concorde parked outside for a while during construction. I believe I saw Dash-80 in Seattle a few years back.

Most flown type (specific): 737 countless times followed closely by the Emb-120. The A320 series isn’t too far behind either.

Most flown airline: United. I don’t have a specific number but I have over 250,000 lifetime miles on Star carriers, at least 200,000 of which is on UA and that doesn’t count my numerous award travel flights.

Most flown route: ONT-LAX and LAX-ONT
Cheapest ever return fare (including taxes, charges etc) : roughly $70 ONT-YVR. It was right after AC went on strike in 1998 and they had some good deals to get customers back. Everybody matched the fares.

Scariest moment: Anytime I fly to Vegas the plane bounces around over the desert.

Most memorable moment: In 1983 I flew with my family on TWA to ATH and the flight attendant posted my drawing of a TW L1011 on the movie screen and everybody clapped. I was pretty pleased.

Most visited UK airport: LHR, which happens to be the only one as well.

Most visited ‘foreign’ airport: ATH, YUL, FRA, AMS.

Best meal: Any meal I’ve eaten in UA’s business class, especially the filet mignon.

Worst Airport: MEX followed by the old ATH Hellinikon. Both were dumps.

Some of the a.netters on their thread were rather optimistic that they would be able to repair that mess. Now, I’m not in the business of repairing airframes, but that looks pretty totalled to me. The repairs have to be worth more than the cost of a 20 y/o 762. Airlines aren’t exactly swiping up the plethora of them that are parked in the deserts at the moment.