Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday 4-25-10
Continental Airlines 737-800 arrived from Metropolitan Oakland Intl (KOAK) as COA1901 at 6:20pm and parked at Signature. The plane brought in the Cleveland Indians who will play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The plane ferried to Los Angeles Intl (KLAX) at 7:01pm as COA1931.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
McChord C-17 delivers
C-17A 08-8197 (P-197) took off at 9:32am and performed a flyby. The pilot started the flyby with the landing gear down and pulled the gear up while doing a wing wave.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday 4-14-10
Gulfstream G550 N959GA (c/n 5259) departed LGB at 8:10am for Savannah/Hilton Head Intl (KSAV). The plane came back around and did a spectacular wing wave on the flyby.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday 4-12-10
Qatar Air Force C-17 A7-MAB (c/n F-209) arrived at 1:20pm and parked under the tower by building 98.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
US Airways get ramp contract at LGB
US Airways has won the contract for ground handling Frontier Airlines when they start service to Denver in May.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Blarney! Just how did 'Wrong Way' Corrigan miss Long Beach?
Angelenos marking St. Patrick's Day today can also celebrate the gall of Irish American Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan, whose explanation for ending up in Ireland on what should have been a flight to Long Beach may be one of history's most brazen displays of blarney.
Corrigan, a Southland resident, flew from Long Beach to New York in July 1938, then famously claimed he got his bearings crossed on his return trip. He ended up 27 hours later outside Dublin in Ireland -- after having his request to fly there denied by American authorities who said his 1929 Curtiss Robin monoplane was unsafe.
Until he died in 1995, Corrigan claimed his transatlantic flight had been a mistake resulting from cloud cover and a broken compass. But some of his acquaintances told journalists that Corrigan had always wanted to emulate Charles Lindbergh.
Corrigan was born in Texas in 1907, son of a railroad engineer and a school teacher. His parents divorced and his mother brought him to Los Angeles in 1922.
Five years later he was working as an aircraft mechanic at Ryan Airlines in San Diego, where he helped put together Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis."
The mechanic and the pilot became friends, and when Lindbergh made the world's first New York-to-Paris flight in 1927, Corrigan determined to try his own transatlantic first.
Eleven years later came the stunt that made him instantly famous in Ireland and around the world.
"Honest, I meant to go to California," Corrigan said in a radio interview in Ireland.
He sailed back to New York and a tickertape parade. He also was greeted by thousands when he flew back to Long Beach, and a parade in his honor was staged in Los Angeles as well.
A year later, Corrigan starred as himself in the 1939 film "Flying Irishman," but the movie tanked and so did his acting career, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He eventually settled on a 20-acre orange grove in Santa Ana, where he and his wife reared three sons and he kept his old plane "Sunshine" in the garage.
In 1988, an Irish airline flew him back to Ireland to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his "wrong way" flight.
Though he reveled in his Irish-American ancestry, it's open to debate whether Corrigan would approve of alcohol-fueled St. Patrick's Day celebrations. According to The Times, Corrigan was a teetotaler who ran on a Prohibition Party ticket in 1946 with the platform slogan "Soak the Drunks With Higher Taxes."
Corrigan, a Southland resident, flew from Long Beach to New York in July 1938, then famously claimed he got his bearings crossed on his return trip. He ended up 27 hours later outside Dublin in Ireland -- after having his request to fly there denied by American authorities who said his 1929 Curtiss Robin monoplane was unsafe.
Until he died in 1995, Corrigan claimed his transatlantic flight had been a mistake resulting from cloud cover and a broken compass. But some of his acquaintances told journalists that Corrigan had always wanted to emulate Charles Lindbergh.
Corrigan was born in Texas in 1907, son of a railroad engineer and a school teacher. His parents divorced and his mother brought him to Los Angeles in 1922.
Five years later he was working as an aircraft mechanic at Ryan Airlines in San Diego, where he helped put together Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis."
The mechanic and the pilot became friends, and when Lindbergh made the world's first New York-to-Paris flight in 1927, Corrigan determined to try his own transatlantic first.
Eleven years later came the stunt that made him instantly famous in Ireland and around the world.
"Honest, I meant to go to California," Corrigan said in a radio interview in Ireland.
He sailed back to New York and a tickertape parade. He also was greeted by thousands when he flew back to Long Beach, and a parade in his honor was staged in Los Angeles as well.
A year later, Corrigan starred as himself in the 1939 film "Flying Irishman," but the movie tanked and so did his acting career, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He eventually settled on a 20-acre orange grove in Santa Ana, where he and his wife reared three sons and he kept his old plane "Sunshine" in the garage.
In 1988, an Irish airline flew him back to Ireland to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his "wrong way" flight.
Though he reveled in his Irish-American ancestry, it's open to debate whether Corrigan would approve of alcohol-fueled St. Patrick's Day celebrations. According to The Times, Corrigan was a teetotaler who ran on a Prohibition Party ticket in 1946 with the platform slogan "Soak the Drunks With Higher Taxes."
(Guy McCarthy City News Service)
Monday, March 15, 2010
JetBlue adds flights to LAX and moves flights around at LGB
This summer, just one year after initiating service to Los Angeles International Airport, JetBlue will double service on the route to New York, one of the most competitive markets in the world. The LA - New York market is also served by American, Continental, Delta, United, and Virgin America.
While JetBlue is adding transcon flying at LAX, the overall capacity will remain flat. JetBlue will reduce LGB-East Coast flights and the two roundtrip slots that they've freed up will be redeployed to provide a third daily departure betwen Long Beach and both Seattle and Portland, Oregon, both of which are important for L.A. travelers but that demand increased frequencies.
While JetBlue is adding transcon flying at LAX, the overall capacity will remain flat. JetBlue will reduce LGB-East Coast flights and the two roundtrip slots that they've freed up will be redeployed to provide a third daily departure betwen Long Beach and both Seattle and Portland, Oregon, both of which are important for L.A. travelers but that demand increased frequencies.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
New C-17 Delivers
C-17 08-8195 took off on Tuesday morning about 9:40am and did a fly-by on it's delivery flight to McChord AFB.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Sunday 3-7-10
A Navy Boeing T-45 Goshawk departed at 9:02am.
Two Boeing F/A-18D Hornets and one F/A-18C Hornet departed from SIgnature at 4:09pm.
Two Boeing F/A-18D Hornets and one F/A-18C Hornet departed from SIgnature at 4:09pm.
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