Miami’s Opa Loca airport (KOPF) is home to a small but interesting fleet of Antonov transport airplanes. I’ve had a chance to photograph an An-12 similar to size and purpose to a C-130:
I noticed an An-24 with a Russian registration UR46838:
Although there are a number of interesting airplanes there Opa Locka is not an easy airport for photographers. May be one day I will find a connection to let me photograph from the other side of the fence
It was cloudy the last time I was there, but I do have access to the other side of the fence.
The Spirit airplane doesn’t look to bad in the last picture, but what you don’t see are the stacks of wooden pallets and crossties being used in place of the main landing gear!
At first glance, I thought the Spirit plane was some sort of pixilated digital error in the photo.
After a good double-take, I realized it was the paint scheme.
How 'bout 10 people pulling a 727? This is actually done as a charity event fundraiser for Special Olympics. I participated on a team back in 2004. I think we came in 2nd to last
Then again, our team consisted of a bunch of I.T. geeks competing against firefighters, police officers and other teams of professionals in jobs which demand physical fitness. That our team didn’t come in dead last is something we’re pretty darned proud of!
