EPWA 2017.02.09 Scandinavian retro

Yet another gloomy, dark, winter day in Warsaw. A sole exception the SAS retro A319. OY-KBO

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Prague spotting, day 2. 2016.05.11

The moment news about the Antonov 225 "Mriya" coming to Prague spread out I started planning and scheduling a visit in the Czech capital. Together with three other friends we made up a team and planned everything. It ended with three nights and two full spotting days, plus one short, just for the departure of the 225. Everything will be divided in three entries, link to other parts are available at the end of the entry. This was my first visit in Prague for spotting, and I must say, that the spotting locations are good! sometimes you need to walk a little, but hey, that's all in it!

We spent the second day almost entirely at the hill near the crossing of the runways. Early in the morning we caught the arrival of Hainan (and couple more) on runway 24.
That days spot gives us the opportunity to see both landings, taxiing and departures from runway 12 and 06 (which is not in use). Highlights of that day? Heavies, a couple special liveries and some nice light.

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Paris CDG spotting LFPG/CDG 2015.06.22

Monday came quickly. Three nights in Paris have passed since my arrival. During that time I've been at Le Bourget for the Air Show and at Orly airport for some spotting. This was supposed to be my last day in Paris, after the night I had to catch the flight back home. So we decided, together with my friend, to go for a little spotting at CDG - which is the main airport in the Paris metro area. After planning nearly everything out before arriving to France we knew that the distances were huge and without a car it would be nearly impossible to get some decent results. We did rent a car the day before (it was needed at ORY) and had a schedule of what arrives or departs when so that we could have a chance of catching everything (or at least most of the things) we came here for, which was: Air Tahiti Nui A340, LaCompagnie 757, the Air France 747s and A340s, UA/AA 757s and other plane+livery connections that are usually unavailable in Warsaw. To the "cooler" things we got I could add: FedEx 777s, UIA 767, TK A330, SAS retro jet, Egyptair 777, Air Transat A310 and more! Well, I can't say I am disappointed with the results. Although the weather was from the poor kind, in the morning full overcast, and later during the day rain came so we started spending more and more time in the car :P (of course lets add the trips for food to nearby villages).
Overall, Roissy offers a wide range of pretty good spotting locations, but to get to them easily you need a car transport. There are, more or less, a couple of parking spots in the area of mosts of the spots. If you are interested in a decent guide check this spotterguide out. It did help me out with a couple of problems. And remember about the permit, we did encounter a check during our stay.
Have a look what came out of my camera:

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2014.04.05 LOT Retro

Yesterday (04 April) LOT revealed its new paint scheme. SP-LIE was painted in a livery from the '50 of the previous century for LOTs 85th anniversary. The first things that came to mind when I saw photos of it where the KLM and Malev retro liveries. I liked it. Classy, very classy! The plane was shown in the early afternoon. First flight, 1900LT to MUC as LO375/376. The next day (that'd be today) it also started of with MUC as LO351/352 than OTP as LO641/642 and in the evening BRU as LO231. This was already know yesterday.
First, I headed for EPBC, to have one or two flights. Cool, but first the winch has to be in working order... Fixing it took us around one hour, great now we can get on with flying (in the meantime fuel had to be bought as well). Let me skip further. My first and only flight of the day departed at 1:20pm and took 4 minutes. It was a strange flight, mostly because of a chain of mistakes I made. I was not prepared for what happened during the flight, never mind, I got what I wanted, took off.
An hour later I had to get going as I planned to catch SP-LIE returning from Romania. It really is photogenic. Let me just show you the plane so you can decide yourself. Simply look at the crane in the front!