Great shots mate!

Must be hard in places like Japan to fight off the heat haze.

A super set of pics mate!

Global Express – yes we visited several other airfields Santa Monica, Van Nuys, Whiteman, Hawthorn (inactive as runway being repaired) Compton, Torrance and Burbank. The only ones with biz were Santa Monica / VN / Burbank & 1 HS125 at Compton (N4CR)

Van Nuys was best for biz but wx was foggy to start with so could hear but not see them – there is a ‘viewing area’ but it took us ages to find. Address is Waterman / Woodley with Woodley being the major road & Waterman is by a small fire station – we drove past it twice. Viewing area does offer ok views but the fence is high with wire on top which does intrude into pics – i only have a few biz pics without it so may post them here somewhen – if they would be of interest. Easier to do a circuit clockwise and turnings will be on rhs making things slightly easier – if you can, it is worth paying a bit extra to get a gps system for the car – worth its weight in gold.

Thanks Paul!

I’ve seen several shots on airliners.net that look as though they’ve been taken from the western side of the airfield:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1225990

Did you managed to get over there or is this the same spot as the viewing gallery?

Thanks for your help,

Alex

edit — this is the location I’m trying to find (16R landing shots):
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/125734.html

Great shots on here.

I’m no expert either but I imagine the cost of such a repair and stress on the air frame would be reasons to write it off.

The tamron is the cheapest probably because of it’s quality. I should know as I have one!

At 18mm it’s very very distorted although this can be corrected with photoshop. At 200mm results I’ve had on my Canon 350D have been soft, even at shutter speeds of 1/800th!!!

Around 38mm to 150mm is usually quite good. If I hadn’t of bought an L series canon lens (100-400), I probably wouldn’t have noticed the above as much. I’d go for one of the Nikon’s.

HTH,

Alex

Super Shots mate! Have you photographed their Gulfstream G450? It’s in the same sort of colour scheme, but that 727 looks much better!