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I've been on a holiday (No spotting trip) to the US, we flew via Texas and did a roadtrip in southern Florida, and a cruise at the end. The cruise was suposed to do the route Ft. Lauderdale-Nassau-St. Thomas-St. Maarten-Ft. Lauderdale but due to a tropical strom in that area (which didn't came near SXM and far from St. Thomas) we did the route Ft. Lauderdale-Nassau-Costa Maya, Mexico-Cozumel, Mexico-Ft. Lauderdale.
1.The first day we flew with the KLM B744M to Houston, Texas.
2.Taken from the B744
3.A bit of spotting at the gate
Then we flew with American airlines B738 to Miami to start the roadtrip. Because of storms in Miami we had to wait one hour in the middle of a taxiway before we were able to go to the gate.
The we picked up the car and went to Kennedy Space Center were I zaw this T-38:
The next day we drove to Daytona beach, we just stapped out the car and I saw two HH-60's I was able to catch one
Then we went to Orlando were I didn't take good photographs of planes. We did hear the Space shuttle going trough sound for the last time. The next day we went to Sarasota and on our way we visited Polk city's Fantasy of Flight, a nice museum with a flying demostration every day:
One of the collection inside:
You also could do a Biplane ride or in a Stearman, $229 but you could fly it (for a few minutes) yourself or a New (80 years old) Standard D25 for $70, I flew the last one and her a short impression:
The (new) Standard D25
wingview:
And the Boeing Stearman:
Then we went to Key West, we stopped for a few minutes at Marathon airport:
And one at Key West
Then we went back to Miami, and stopped for a while at "the holes"
Two out of five holes were blocked like this, "Spottertjepesten"
The Planes:
One of the few Continetal planes I saw:
Then we did the cruise and went back to Houston:
The AA B738 plane:
Some plane spotting at a parking lot:
And then we flew back in PrivatAir's BBJ in total it carried 6 Passengers and 6 crew members (Incl. Pilots)
The Cockpit
And a wingview:
I Hope you enjoyed it, I have much more pics I can show you (A few NAS Key West Planes or more Miami stuff)
Kind regards,
Bradley
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