We’re already getting snow for the season here.
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Huh? It’s still August.
4300m peaks. It’s not even unheard of for us to get snow (usually just dustings) in July on some peaks.
Very lucky, wish I had snow…
Hope you don’t scratch the paint off, that’d be a shame.
@barbadian Did you catch the Russian Air Force IL-62 and another IL-76 which was probably carrying weapons that flew close to Barbados yesterday?
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the what
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I wasn’t joking…
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sat in a storage unit for a few decades?
Pretty much. Guy I bought it from is the 2nd owner and he got it with like 20mi or something in '07. Rode it a bit, but was more of a cruiser guy so he parked it in his barn.
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RIP KC-10. 1 of 2 left. taken earlier on its last flight.
Edit: seems to be flying again today so maybe the pilots saying it was the last may be them retiring
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Extremely sad, way too early… I wish I could see the last flight…
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kinda is, all they’ll do now is sit in the desert. still kinda young, at least in USAF years. i’m honestly surprised they came over to me. I probably wont see the actual last flight either, way to far north of SUU where the last two are and i’ve only seen 2 of them, including this one, in the last year visit here so unlikely to happen again before retirement next month.
I can’t think of any other operators outside of 10 Tanker who’ll have DC/KC/MD-10s after the USAF retires them.
edit: Omega Aerial Refueling has some apparently, a -30 and -40. And Project Orbis a MD-10. i’ll just have to visit the airport when the 10 Tankers are active a bit more before they eventually get rid of those
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Orbis (Flying eye hospital) operates a single MD-10, which is the final MD-10 operated by FedEx. (Basically just FedEx crews on their days off)
TAB cargo was once the last commercial DC-10 operator with a single MD-10. Luckily not the last anymore if you look below.
CargoThree recently got one ex FedEx MD-10 delivered a couple of weeks ago, they will get 10 more I think. TransCarga is getting some too to replace their A300s. (rip, I always loved their retro livery)
Next up is Omega, they operate a couple of DC-10s, like some ex RNLAF (Dutch) KDC-10s, only 3 ever existed, I was lucky enough to catch one up close. They also operate some other random DC-10s and have a lot in storage. They even have one of the last pax 707s in operation.
Their most valuable one is a DC-10-40, very rare, last one airworthy. It even still has JAL seats from the 60s!!!
I might be wrong, but all of omegas planes are passenger ones, but all of them are also tankers. (Some have a boom while some just have tiny pods)
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I just checked, TransCarga retired their A300s last year, rip… Was wondering why I haven’t seen them on FlightRadar24 in quite a while…
They currently operate no planes.
I really hope that one of their upcoming MD-10s gets the retro livery.
Noticed the winglets, turns out they’re one of the oldest A300s still operating, both are 41 years old.
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yeah i was just looking at planespotter’s info. havent seen anything about cargothree, i’ll have to look into that. not enough airworthy ones.
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wow this place is really dead
yeah.
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