US Airways Airbus A320 N106US

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   Just1Thing (41 months ago | reply)

   Great shot as usual and very timely. Thankfully everyone survived without any major injury and the pilots and cabin crew did an outstanding job.

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   Rich Snyder--Jetarazzi Photography added this photo to his favorites. (41 months ago)

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   cweyer [deleted] (41 months ago | reply)

   That's N106US actually.

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   Code20Photog (41 months ago | reply)

   DOH! I was typing too fast.

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   ideastoday (41 months ago | reply)

   Yes, great shot.

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   PhotoLab507 added this photo to his favorites. (41 months ago)

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   PhotoLab507 (41 months ago | reply)

   Thanks for the post.

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   Code20Photog (41 months ago | reply)

   This is why I keep EVERYTHING. It gets hard on the external hard drive, but as soon as I heard the N number, went through my stuff and found I actually had it. Fired it off to my station for them to use, and was able to get it up on here. Surprised I never posted it when I shot it. But it definately reminds me it's a good idea to fire off at least one shot on every plane I see.

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    PhotoLab507 (41 months ago | reply)

    Indeed to all of above. I always go to my flight log to see if the aircraft was perhaps one of "mine" Thanks again. I knew someone would have captured it on a happier day.

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    papa sierra (41 months ago | reply)

    Nice catch and thanks for posting it. I figured someone must have it. Heck, I might even have it - but not being so meticulous as to keep a log by reg number, who knows where it might be. Living right above SFO I shoot lots. By the way - the photo I use on my flickr i.d. icon is a DH Comet taken @ LAX in 1965. It was a lot more open then.

    Regards, -ps

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    Code20Photog (41 months ago | reply)

    I should probably start keeping a log. Luckily, I don't shoot US Airways all that often, they're just all too similar, so it was somewhat easy to go through thumbnails till I found it.

    As for LAX, it was a lot more open up until a few years ago. I remember not that long ago, pulling my truck up to the fence behind the old Imperial Terminal, now the Flightpath Musuem, climbing in the bed and shooting right over the fence. You could reach out and touch some of the bigger planes as they taxiied by. Try that now and I'm not so sure I can access Flickr from Airport Jail.

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    Lorcan Otway (41 months ago | reply)

    And here is where she ended up... the little plane who could swim...

    

    I was told in Chicago that it is now "illegal" to photograph tail numbers on planes. I was rather tired, so I did not explain that such a law is unconstitutional - and would have little to add to airport security anyway... hopefully we might return to law and sanity now.

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    Code20Photog (41 months ago | reply)

    Oh, I can't tell you the times I've run into people, rent-a-cops, police, et al, who think there are laws like that. Depends on what kind of mood I'm in, but I'll usually start off asking how many years of media law they have (I took an entire year if JUST media-related law) and then go on about public view, etc etc.

    Everytime I see my photo up above, I do get a little sad to think it's a plane that will never fly again, but like you said, it sure could swim.

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    PhotoLab507 (41 months ago | reply)

    I'd like to weigh in on the photographing tail numbers? Whoaaaaa.
    Have we come that far? At ORD half of my photos are JUST for tail numbers. Code, who told you not to take? Yes, perhaps things will settle down? Once, after 9-11 (right after at CLT) I was singled out for special consideration as they saw me taking an airplane photo. That was the start of a wake up to what was happening but if we truly can't take photos of our airplanes at the gate.......c'mon. A nation we won't recognize anymore.

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    Lorcan Otway (41 months ago | reply)

    I had flown out to observe a civil rights case, like Code, I have some background in law and journalism, I have a J.D. from NYU... but, I never travel without my cameras, so when doing legal work, I don't quite take off my journalist hat while traveling... So... I shot this...

    

    and airport security approached and told me not to show tail numbers. It is almost funny, if it were not for the general loss of public rights these days, I am a plain dressing Quaker, so here they are, afraid of an Amish looking guy with a camera... home of the brave and free? Well, we have to work at it a little I guess.

    All the best
    Lorcan
    PS I also had a camera broken in a run in with private security on a public pier photographing the statue of liberity at dusk, of all things! The photo and story are on my flickr site somewhere. Ah, my...

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    Code20Photog (41 months ago | reply)

    If you can't photograph the tail numbers, then why do planes have them in plain sight?

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