03-27-2013, 01:29 PM
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#1221
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Any idea when it is scheduled to leave?
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03-27-2013, 02:45 PM
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#1222
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stazzy33
Any idea when it is scheduled to leave?
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4pm to Anchorage.
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03-27-2013, 04:20 PM
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#1223
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary,AB
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How do you guys always know these planes are coming in? Is there a way to set something up on Flightaware?
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03-27-2013, 04:26 PM
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#1224
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
4pm to Anchorage.
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Ugh, I missed it, didn't tune back into this thread in time. It's really too bad cause I am right up by the airport on Barlow and Mcknight and it looks like it took off that way... Sigh...
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03-27-2013, 04:28 PM
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#1225
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Lifetime Suspension
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Missed it 
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03-27-2013, 04:43 PM
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#1226
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by InSutterWeTrust
How do you guys always know these planes are coming in? Is there a way to set something up on Flightaware?
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Register a free account on Flightaware and you can setup up to 10 free flight notifications.
Two of my settings are flightplans to YYC with the Antonov 124 and flightplans departing YYC.
I got photos of both the arrival and departure, should have them up later. Will post them here.
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03-27-2013, 04:44 PM
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#1227
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Lifetime Suspension
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That sounds complicated
can you just PM me, that's easier, for me.
Wouldn't have been able to make it anyways though
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03-27-2013, 06:26 PM
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#1228
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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03-27-2013, 06:40 PM
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#1229
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One of the Nine
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I saw that thing this afternoon from the deep south. It was turning toward the airport, and it just seemed surreal how slow it appeared to be going. It looked so huge, just lumbering along.
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03-28-2013, 02:18 PM
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#1230
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Nice. How often do rare planes these come to Calgar
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04-05-2013, 06:07 PM
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#1231
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Scoring Winger
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http://www.wired.com/rawfile/201
The Lun ekranoplan weighs 380 tons, has a 148-foot wingspan and can launch six anti-ship missiles from flight. Or rather, it could, before it was retired to a forlorn pier in southern Russia.
The dilapidated plane is the offspring of an even larger prototype ship that so spooked the CIA in the 1960s that they developed an unmanned drone to spy on it, an alleged program detailed in the new book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.
Deployed much later, in 1987, the Lun (a more contemporary behemoth) was an improvement over the previous model. It remained in service until the 1990s, when it was mothballed by the Russian military. The once-fearsome Lun will likely never fly again and is now little more than a chunk of aerodynamic scrap metal.
Alternately described as an amphibious aircraft or a flying boat, the plane is a feat of engineering that has been reduced to a footnote in aviation history. Read on for a look inside this aging relic and the ambitious program that spawned it.
 1/06/ekranoplan/#slideid-16859
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04-07-2013, 08:03 AM
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#1233
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary,AB
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Was travelling through Chicago down to Fort Lauderdale and saw a 787 sitting off to the side. Snapped a few pics with the iPhone.
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04-07-2013, 10:05 AM
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#1234
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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That poor thing has been sitting there for months and they can't even fly it home.
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04-07-2013, 10:18 AM
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#1235
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Franchise Player
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One of the LOT 787 was at Paine Field to do a battery certification test. They're done testing and the changes are in the review stage, basically, they're waiting on FAA approval on the changes.
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04-07-2013, 01:13 PM
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#1236
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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The Antonov was just on Discovery channels "Mighty Planes" the other day. Pretty crazy cargo jet.
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04-07-2013, 05:37 PM
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#1237
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In the Sin Bin
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I'm shocked that LOT bought a 787.
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04-07-2013, 06:40 PM
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#1238
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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8 of them. AC bought 37. 
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04-10-2013, 11:15 AM
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#1239
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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Porter Airlines orders the C-series and wants to expand to Calgary and more
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...medium=twitter
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04-10-2013, 11:26 AM
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#1240
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
8 of them. AC bought 37. |
lol that sounds about right. They do only have one real major international airport.
Although LOT did give me two free beers on a 25 minute flight after telling me not bring my own on next time 
... at 9 am.
Last edited by polak; 04-10-2013 at 11:33 AM.
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