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Most welcome! Too good to not share!

Wonderful finally meeting you, brother! So glad you could make it!

There will always be some grain, even at low ISOs, but noise-reduction has come a very long way, even in the seven years since I made this video. Lightroom can pull it out, as can Topaz Denoise.

Twas a good visit! Their "random" enhanced security screening on the way back was a joke, but other than that, lovely people :)

Yankee Golf. Yankee Alpha was my ride from FRA to IAH :)

Yeah ... tried to get someone out but no one was available, I guess. Oh well!

That's awesome! I'll be on the outbound flight this weekend (747-8i now) and couldn't be more excited!

Hey! We still have them. I’ll reach out to NSF and see if they can host them somehow. Most of us moved on to other things post-shuttle but some of us are still in touch. Just wasn’t much to do after that. I did see my second launch just last month, though (IFT-3)! Felt good to get back into it a bit 😎

@@Astro95Media Nice news! Would be great to be able to watch those videos. Not only for me, but for the whole Internet, they were great memories of the Shuttle era.

Absolutely!

Yes. Yes it is 😜

Definitely felt that way!

It can be repeated a billion times and remain true 😂

It varies from day to day.

Love it. It was her first launch and this helps show the excitement of the experience 😎

Wow…simply wow…How far were you away from the launch site? I have to make a trip down there one day for a viewing. Any advice?

@@cameraman655Five miles! Be prepared for crowds and a couple of hours to be able to get out of the park because of traffic. It’s worth it, though!

I'm so glad!

Thanks! Hard to believe it’s been 12 years!

It's definitely different. Need a quicker shutter than stationary targets but slow enough to expose them. You typically open the lens up all the way as well.

They've burned off most of their gas by the time they land so they roll to a stop relatively quickly.

Thank you for explanation :)@@Astro95Media

Very! We had it here for about 7.5 years and it never came back once COVID was set free. Still get the EK 380, though.

No, the smallest is the A318.

@@franspasteels3420 I stand corrected. I wasn’t aware of the A318. When I was at BAe in Manchester there was only the A300,320,330 and 340. The 380 was still an artist’s impression and we were just cutting the first test ribs 5a/5b for the inboard undercarriage for the 380 wings out of hdf.

It was the largest passenger aircraft, but not the largest overall. The An-124 and An-225 (RIP) were larger. And yeah the A318 is an adorable little thing. Seen one or two of them here from Avianca and it's amazing how stubby they are. They have to have a larger tail to compensate for the shorter fuselage (akin to the 747SP).

@@Astro95Media Funny looking those A318's :)) But they get the job done properly

Thanks! They're becoming less and less common as airlines shed the quads from their fleets but we still get a daily flight from Dubai, courtesy EK.

Not sure. Probably sometime in the 2000s!

Hard to believe!!

Kalitta only operates 747-400s. N863GT is a 747-8 with Atlas Air.

@@Astro95Media Thanks for the clarification.

It’s a lot of hot days in the summer and cold days in the winter and you definitely need a long shower at the end of it! But they seem to enjoy it 😎

It’s on Lee Road, just off the approach end of Runway 27. Just take JFK up to Will Clayton and head east. You’ll eventually hit Lee Road and turn right. The lot is on your left.

Thanks! I have some other content from earlier in the year I need to post but it’s been busy lol.

They were up. I watched the engineer verify the configuration before they pushed. And the bar was disconnected from the tug before it was removed from the jet, then reconnected to the tug (proper procedure). Full video shows all of it happening but I trimmed it down so people wouldn't get too bored :)

Wow! I had no idea that was part of her history. Thank you for sharing that! Still remember that tragedy. Can't believe it's been nearly a decade.

In what way?

@@Astro95Media Boeing designed the plane. Pretty sure they'd make recommendations.

Oh crap, 07/12/2023 someone offloaded an SUV from a 747. Driving it out the front cargo hatch onto a deck loader. I know it can be done, safely. The reason to put cargo on a pallet is to ease the cleanup in case something goes wrong.

Thanks! This was her final visit to Houston as a CX bird. She would eventually return as Cargolux's LX-ICL!

Yeah EVA beat them out for the SE Asia market.

The market was going to go one of two ways ... either spoke and wheel or point to point. Airbus bet on the former; Boeing the latter. Boeing was right and we got the 787 out of it. Thankfully Airbus caught on not too long after that and gave us the A350.

Thanks! It was a magical day, for sure. Miss seeing that stack but thankful for the chances I had!

Pretty much. Glad I got her when I did!

Sure thing! Hard to believe this was nearly six years ago!

@@Astro95Media Still works!

Thank you! This was my favorite video out of all of them.

That's awesome! Bet those are some fun memories with the vintage freighters!