Another set of photos from one hotter than scalded snake balls in a desert wagon rut afternoon. And they for some reason temporarily removed the sun canopies at Founders' Plaza a few weeks ago and man, you damn well better love dem planes to want to roast out there the last several weeks.......if anyone knows what happened to the sun canopies at Founders' Plaza, email me!
But I digress.
A little nose to nose action here...okay, not really, but I thought it might look interesting. A UPS 767-300F rolls out for departure while the MD-11F in the background is readied for pushback.
N307UP is a Boeing 767-300F(ER) built and delivered to UPS in August 1996. Here she is heading out for an intersection takeoff on 18R.
Pushing back right after the UPS 767-300F left the ramp was this UPS MD-11F. This particular aircraft, N294UP, was built and delivered orginally in November 1991 as N801DE in passenger configuration to Delta Air Lines. If I'm not mistaken, N801DE was Delta's first MD-11 and it was also the last Delta MD-11 to wear the Interim colors (Ron Allen colors).
Here's N294UP getting ready to head out while in the distance you can see the previous UPS 767-300F climbing out from 18R.
From my information it appears that N294UP, when it was with Delta as N801DE, was withdrawn from Delta service in 2004 and stored for a while at Montreal Mirabel (of all places instead the desert) before flying for charter operator World Airways (and at one point had a short term lease to Ethiopian Airlines) before being sold to UPS and converted in Singapore to freighter configuration just last year.
Couldn't resist this one. There was contractor crew doing some sort of work between the UPS ramp and Founders' Plaza and this one worker stepped inside the porta-crapper just as the MD-11F spooled up its engines. Alas, there was no fun to be had as I was in a very twisted way wanting to see if the jet blast would provide some sort of entertainment for the afternoon. Must be why there are those heavy duty straps holding the porta-crapper down and it was hitched to a truck.
Still makes for a bit of a humorous shot, though.
Finally caught this one on the west side! Too bad it was so hazy and that heat haze was cranked up to ludicrous speed that day. C-FEKI is an Embraer ERJ-175 built and delivered to Air Canada in November 2005. On a hazy day like this day the color scheme doesn't exactly stand out as well as it does on a sunny clear day. It actually looks best to me when in full sunlight against some dark clouds in the background.
C-FEKI sailing in over the numbers with Terminal B in the background (although some us still refer to it as Terminal 2W ;-)) with a North American 767-300 and United A319 at their gates.
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