N637FE MEM Fedex Super Hub 241017
in one frenetic two hour session on the car park roof at Memphis airport I took more than 200 shots of more than 130 departing FedEx wide body jets. Parallel runways allow simultaneous departure of jets at 30 second intervals on the two northerly runways. Flights to the West coast and Asia use the left hand strip whilst those for Europe and the East Coast use the right hand strip. With more than 6 visible MD-11s in the air at one time and with queues of 5-6 heavy FedEx aircraft on each departure taxiway throughput the late afternoon, this has to be one of the aircraft photting highlights of my life, it's totally mental, incredibly loud, smells of Jet A1 all the time and is totally, unbelievably awesome! And they do it every day of the week.......
N637FE MEM Fedex Super Hub 241017
in one frenetic two hour session on the car park roof at Memphis airport I took more than 200 shots of more than 130 departing FedEx wide body jets. Parallel runways allow simultaneous departure of jets at 30 second intervals on the two northerly runways. Flights to the West coast and Asia use the left hand strip whilst those for Europe and the East Coast use the right hand strip. With more than 6 visible MD-11s in the air at one time and with queues of 5-6 heavy FedEx aircraft on each departure taxiway throughput the late afternoon, this has to be one of the aircraft photting highlights of my life, it's totally mental, incredibly loud, smells of Jet A1 all the time and is totally, unbelievably awesome! And they do it every day of the week.......