Two of my passions in one place !!

Before going to the airport, I looked some weather radars and saw a few storms cells.

When I arrived on the third floor of the airport parking, the sky was fabulous!

Some cells were on the south side of Yul, and another one was on north, going to east.

North side

The storm was heading east

Nice contrast, a blue sky and a plane race...

To bypass the storm located at the east of Montreal, some landings were made on Rwy 28

Royal Air Maroc

Another storm is coming directly to YUL... These next pictures speak for themselves...

With this bad weather above YUL, I was thinking that's a ground stop was called, when I eard a terrific "Roar" from Trent engine trying to keep flying this AC-864 to London.

Note the doors of landing gears still open, and this A330 already made a sharp 90° th the left.

I never saw a departure like that...

Bad landing !!

This sequence show how the MD-11 is a hard airplane to land... Maybe a little scary inside, but a great opportunity for the photographer !

Playing with condensation

Spotting session under drizzle and rain. I think that the resulat is quiet nice...

A little effect of "Archimedes screw"

A little tornado in front of the engine

And finally, an ellegant departure!

10-06-2010

Interesting traffic!

Flight from Frankfurt is now upgraded to a B777 at place of an A330

US Airways with "Star Alliance livery"(N828MD). Later the same day, I can saw that's not the only plane with this theme...
Air Canada Jetz, with "U2" livery. (Sorry for the haze...)
I never saw an approach like that before...This Dash8-300 form Air Creebec was coming about 30m above the runway 24G, done a very sharp turn and landed on the runway 28...
I thing there were no passangers, and the crew decided to have fun!

The MD-11, always impressive!

I let you imagine the following scene...

AC0871 from Paris

N829MD, second US Airways

And never 2 without 3, AC Jazz with Star alliance livery

And finally, before leaving, I saw this Sea-King...

7-05-2010

Sunset spotting

European heavy are sleeping at YUL...

These long haul are grounded since the European airspace is closed. This responsable of this block is the ash cloud produced by the volcano Eyjafjöll, better known as the "Islandic volcano" by the media... Don't know why...

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F-GLZL

KLM PH-KCC / Lufthansa D-AIKL / Swiss HB-IQA

17/04/10

Airbus family

Last sunday, I had the opportunity to shoot a good portion of the Airbus family.

Here are the pictures from the A310 to the A340

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A310 C-GTSF

A318 XA-UBX, alias "Babybus", and first time for me to see this "rare plane"
A319 C-GITP

A320 C-FFWJ

A320 EI-TAG, from Cuba, and of course that's not an US registration...

A321 C-GITU

A330-200 C-GITS, the famous "Azores glider"
A330-300 C-GKTS

A330-300 C-GHKX

A330-300 D-AIKI

A340-300 F-GLZO

A340-300 HB-JMN, a former Air Canada's plane (C-FYLG)

2010-04-04