Hey guys! Been a while since I posted one of these! Earlier this month, I stopped at LAX to finish up a weekend of traveling to meet up with @Guxk @AndrewWu @Altaria55 @Speedyyy and @robert_xing. They had two helicopter trips booked and I was lucky enough to be invited to join. Unfortunately, ATC wasn’t as kind as they’ve been in the past and my gear wasn’t completely up to the task as I didn’t know I would be doing this until the morning of, so some of these photos will be a bit of a departure from the normal quality I try to post. Excuses aside, here are 10 of my favorites from the hour above the airport.
An Atlas 747-8F departing off 25L with its shadow chasing it
Another shadow on this Atlas 777F. Gotta love the long shadows when the sun is low in the sky!
A China Eastern A330 over the classic In-N-Out park
That same A330 making first contact with 24R
Another Airbus from Asia, this time an A350 over the numbers from Seoul
An American A321 amongst the LAX “scenery” as it departs 25R
Another A321, this time from the other side, departing past the maintenance hangar
An American 787 also departing past some airport infrastructure
Staring straight down at Alaska’s More to Love A321neo
A Southwest 737-800 making itself look big as it turns onto 24L
It was awesome to finally make an IFC meetup of some sort. I’m super grateful they all decided to come out here; I had a blast. Again, I know the quality of some of these is sub-par, but I hope they’re still enjoyable from a motive point of view. Let me know what you think, I’ll post some more standard shots (sharper but from the ground) at another point down the line too.