New Year Spotting Part 2

Part 2,

This is where things start to get more interesting with some new angles

China Southern Airlines A319-112 (B-6209)

For the past few weeks, China Southern has been sending the A319s here to Penang, a shorter derivative of the A320. Who knows, they might even go back to sending their 737s here. Regardless, shall accept with open arms anyway.

Firefly ATR72-600 (9M-FIB)

Next up was Firefly. I guess it is either for maintenance purposes or something to that matter, but I am seeing more and more of their aircraft without the landing gear door. This is the first of 2 of that day.

While reviewing through some of the shots, from a distance, you could hear a loud sound of engines approaching. Looked up and was greeted by a tri-holer, the first FedEx of the day.

FedEx MD-11F (N572FE)

Since it was a fairly large aircraft, this MD had to travel a wee bit further down the runway before turning on to the taxiway (since large aircraft aren't allowed to use the high-speed taxiway exit). I am rarely this close to such an aircraft due to the spotting location that I am at. This inspired me to try on something different.

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AQV)

And voila..... a close-up of the front section of this AirAsia. Quite happy with the turnout, so decision was made to continue this for the consecutive shots.

FedEx MD-11F (N612FE)

AirAsia A320 (9M-AQM)

FedEx A300B4-622R(F) (N723FE)

This last FedEx has had some paint missing from the tip of the nose. Time for some short repaint work. Like most widebodied Airbus, this one too has a nose-down angle.

Being close to these feels just so great. I have always been spotting them from afar, getting the bottom/front/right view of 'em. But this spot is just great.

N723FE on the taxiway

Firefly ATR72-500 (9M-FYL)

I guess now the landing gear doors are becoming more and more scarce, or they are too easily damaged. Here's the second firefly departing without it. Most probably being removed for maintenance.

Tiger Airways A320 (9V-TAO)

Turbotiger jetting away to Singapore. Rather surprised that they have not changed the Tiger Airways to tigerair, unless they are only using that for their new aircraft, much like what MAS is doing now to their new 9M-MX- fleet.

Silkair B737-8SA (9V-MGC)

And to end this trip is Silkair's 3rd 738, flying off with a little bit of Penang below.

Well that's all for this segment. Really had a great time, with the closeups, and of course, Air New Zealand and the Military Beech.



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Same place, Different views - 02 / November [Part 2]

Part 2

Let's get right to it.

Firefly ATR72-600 (9M-FIB)

I was not quite aware of this next bird as it was hiding behind the parked Korean Air Cargo. Being a 757, it is much slimmer and is totally obscured by the 747. Here's the first (yep, there's one more) bird from the land down under, more specifically Kiwiland.

RNZAF B757-2K2 (NZ7571)

NZ7571 (cool that the tail number is the aircraft model) had a big 75 painted on the fuselage a couple of years back. Though it has since been removed. This shot shows both jets from the land down under.

Malindo Air B737-9GPER (9M-LNH)

This Malindo has an extra hump on its back since the last visit (that I was around that is).

AirAsia A320 (9M-AHF)

Managed to boost myself high enough to almost clear the fences. This was just a few seconds after liftoff. Not the everyday usual shot.

AirAsia (9M-AJE) with sharklets

I've always liked the view of wingleted / sharkleted (for this case) aircraft being well contrasted from the sky. The bank angle just adds to the fun of it. From the looks of this, this one's most probably heading South.

Tigerair A320 (9V-TAE)

This tiger still bears the old livery. the new one has a big "tigerair" on the side.

Silkair A320 (9V-SLL)

Followed by another Singapore-based airline, SilkAir.

Firefly ATR72-600 (9M-FID)

Since this segment started with an ATR, it would be appropriate to end it with another ATR. This is Firefly's fourth -600 series. Still looks clean and empty. Wonder if they might add more ads to this one in the future. FIC and FID are still all white (as of the time of writing that is)


So this is the end of part 2. Part 3 will cover the departure of the Airbus MRTT.






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