While out at Gillespie Field on Tuesday April 7th I took a few pics on the north side of the airport.
More Tommorrow.
A few more shots at Gillespie Field (SEE)
Pic 1 is the San DiegoAerospace Museums Gillespie Field Facility.
Pic 2 Is a view of the foothills at the aproach end of runways 27L and 27R. The approach to 27L is straight in over the foothills. The approach to 27R comes over State Route 67 and requires a right turn just prior to touch down
Pic 3 are aircrft with military style paint schemes.
Pic 4 is an aircraft about to land
Cool 8) I need to check out this airport :P
Quote from: Midnight Mover on April 13, 2009, 07:45:17 PM
Cool 8) I need to check out this airport :P
Wings over Gillespie Air Show june 5,6, and 7 whold be a great time to do it.
Gonna try ;)
Quote from: rander on April 14, 2009, 12:57:47 AM
Wings over Gillespie Air Show june 5,6, and 7 whold be a great time to do it.
:( I wont be able to make it to this one... looks like a nice airport though.
Quote from: Fernando Sedeno on April 15, 2009, 03:17:53 AM
:( I wont be able to make it to this one... looks like a nice airport though.
<whip>
Quote from: Josh on June 24, 2009, 05:07:22 AM
Getting a lil too much joy outa that man! :P
>:D JK!
Recently bought my first house in El Cajon, just east of Gillespie. I'm right under the arrivals for the 24L and 24R. I've gotten used to the noise, but one of the positives is that every so often we get some cool traffic flying in, Like this A-1 Skyraider.
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Here are some from the recent Wings of Freedom tour. The flag shots are actually from my front yard, and the sweet P-51 shot was taken by the wife.
Wife just called me to let me know that 3 Ospreys just flew into Gillespie. Said they shook the entire house. No idea what they are doing there.
back in May during the fires in San Diego County, some of the private helos being used overnighted there. I was able to get some photos early in the morning...
Siller S-61
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Siller SkyCrane
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Company I've never heard of. Heli Flite, using s Sikorsky S-58DT like Summit's. If fact, when I first saw it I thought it was Summit's.
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and a private Bell 407 taking off from in front of the terminal
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AHHHHH, you got them!! I saw that too during the fires we had a while back. I remember driving home during the last hazy minutes of sunlight and seeing 4 heavy lift helicopters all lined up on 27L. I thought to myself now that is a picture!!!! I was going to run home and grab the camera and see if i could get a good shot of the 4 in a line, but...Dad duties were being called into play and i didn't get the chance. Freaking kids always getting in the way!!!
yeah, sorry for the delay. Thought I had lost them. Somehow when I loaded them onto the computer, I put them in a folder, which was somehow put in a 2nd folder, then a 3rd folder How the heck did I do that?.
Congrats to Matt Guthmiller for becoming the youngest person to ever solo around the world in a plane (19 years old).
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Here he is on short final into Gillespie Field after a 15 hour flight from Kona, Hawaii in a single engine Beachcraft Bonanza. Taken from my backyard
http://www.limitless-horizons.org/ (http://www.limitless-horizons.org/)
before the new year, I went over to Gillespie t try and shoot some of the contract fire helos. Due to their location I wasn't able to, but did get some other aircraft while trying,
Cessna 510
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Raytheon B300
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Hughes 369D
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