Los Angeles International Airport, California |
On January 6 and 7, 2000, I shot
pictures of the operations at Los Angeles International Airport.
Here, in ascending gross weight, are representatives of the widebody airliners that frequent LAX.
I spent Saturday, March 26 at Los Angeles International Airport shooting pictures of the airliners with some of my aviation minded friends.
We started the day on Sepulveda Boulevard, under the approach to the north runways, Runway 24L and Runway 24R.
We moved to the benches on Imperial Avenue that overlook the south runways, Runway 25L and Runway 25R, for the middle of the day.
We finished our day at LAX by photographing departures from the north runways from Vista del Mar Park, above Dockweiler Beach.
Delta Airlines 767-232, N102DA Spirit of Delta was the first 767-200 operated by Delta and will be the last to be retired. It made a last tour of the United States before its retirement to a Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. In preparation for its retirement, it has been painted in the livery it wore in 1982. It arrived at Los Angeles International Airport for the last time on February 27 in a major rain storm.
On the morning of February 28 the storm abated. I drove to LAX to photograph Spirit of Delta. N102DA made a local flight around Santa Catalina Island with a load of lucky passengers. It then departed for Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington.
While I was at LAX, I photographed dozens of airliners.
Page 1 of the Air Traffic at Los Angeles International Airport, February 28, 2006 display
Page 2 of the Air Traffic at Los Angeles International Airport, February 28, 2006 display
On Thursday, March 2, 2006, I spent a few hours on the hill above Imperial Highway photographing the traffic on the south runways at LAX.
Page 1 of the Air Traffic at Los Angeles International Airport, March 2, 2006 display
Page 2 of the Air Traffic at Los Angeles International Airport, March 2, 2006 display
The first prototype of the Airbus A380, F-WWOW landed at Los Angeles International Airport for the first time at 9:30 AM PDT on Monday, March 19, 2007. It arrived from Toulouse, France with the call sign Airbus 101 Super. It departed on Tuesday, March 20.
Airbus A380-841 F-WWJB visited Los Angfeles International Airport in late November. It arrived at 11:45 AM on Wednesday November 28. It took off on a demonstration flight Thursday morning at 7:30 and returned at 9:00. It departed for Sydney, Australia Friday morning at 8:00 in heavy rain.
I arrived at LAX at sunrise on Thursday, November 29, to photograph the Airbus A380 making a demonstration flight on its second visit to the airport. While waiting for its departure, I photographed several airliners and freighters taking off.
A variety of airplanes landed at Los Angeles International Airport while I waited for the arrival of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. I took up a position at the west end of long term parking Lot C while I waited for the 747/Shuttle stack to fly along Runway 24 Right on the north side of LAX. After the first pass of the 747/Shuttle stack over the north runway, I moved to Lennox Park, east of the 405 Freeway to wait for its pass over Runway 25 Right on the south side of the airport.
I spent a day at Los Angeles International Airport photographing the airliners.
I spent some time at Los Angeles Interntional Airport photographing airliners and frieghters on January 19. 2015. Airbus A380
operations are picking up. 777s are hauling the majority of international passengers. 747s are not as common as they used to be. Only one 787 showed up. I started the day shooting approaches to the north runways before moving to Imperial Hill to photograph operations on the south runways.
I spent some time at Los Angeles Interntional Airport photographing airliners and frieghters on May 3, 2016. Airbus A380 operations are picking up. 777s are hauling the majority of international passengers. 747s are not as common as they used to be. Several 787s showed up. I started the day shooting operations on the south runways from Imperial Hill before moving to photograph the approaches to the north runways.
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