12/27/09
View from the ‘blue room’ — operations
Category: CARGO’S LAST STAND Page 8 of 11
12/27/09
The lower-deck loader operators left this message
on the aft cargo bin door
Some of our equipment can be seen palletized,
ready to be loaded on this airplane
to go out on tomorrow morning’s last flight
Sunday — December 27 — 3 PM
I came in on my day off, Cargo’s-Last-Stand Eve. This, the last freighter was scheduled to leave the following morning. This was my last chance to take some photos of the group and of this airplane before it would be turned into scrap aluminum. Most of the other freighters are sitting in the desert.
I asked the afternoon shift crew if they would also like to be photographed in the engine. Caesar was the only volunteer.
With the plane facing directly south, and just a few days after winter solstice (our shortest day, the sun setting to the SW), the the lighting was perfect. We took 8 shots in less than 5 minutes. What an opportunity!
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John & Lynn
12/25/09
Ken, Louis, Tino, Edie, Rita, Bob “Pineapple”
12/25/09
Thanks to everybody for tuning in.
Lots of more Cargo’s Last Stand photos coming.
I’m putting a lot of TLC into this.
Each photo is hand-crafted from RAW.
Most have been shot with the little Canon G10 and G11,
but many of these last photos are shot with Canon’s 5D Mark II.
And I just got better noise reduction software
so the G11 photos shot in low light will pop!
Thanks for the memories!
Jeff Fenske : )
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It’s Tino and Bob “Pineapple”!
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1/29/09
Lynn, John, Edie
12/25/09
The main deck as seen from behind the cockpit,
in the rear of the hump of the whale
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Louis, Rita, Bob “Pineapple,” and Tino
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Ken
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A Stretched 747F
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12/25/09 – 9 AM
Renate holds the plane during engine start
12/25/09
F-1: Lehua pulls up stairs (“seige tower”)
F-2: Pete waits for nose to open
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12/27/09
John brings Paul up with a 30-footer,
the first pallet of the last load
of the last NWA freighter
in Anchorage
Into the Gullet
12/27/09 – last freighter
Lynn’s last time on the loader
12/27/09 – last freighter!
The Champions!
Paul, Lynn & John
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Finger Pointing
Lynn <— —> Paul
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Windmill
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All Hands on Deck
Lynn gives me an extra set
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Lynn