12/27/09 – Last Freighter!
Paul shuts the door for the second to the last time.
I get off the loader to take a series of shots,
with this following one, my favorite.
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Cracks a smile as John drives away for the last time;
though, it will sit overnight for one last smile opportunity.
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7/20/07 – sunset
Across the runway,
across the inlet,
west of Anchorage —
the Tordrillo mountains
Behind the
Select 3-Speed Service’s Tail
The Canon ELPH
is not the Canon G11
9/3/07
Robert with his tools at the Alaska State Fair
Robert is a personal friend of mine,
but many may know him from working in the NW flight kitchen
in Anchorage until it got outsourced.
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2/25/10
Snow • rise — the opposite of a water • fall
Camera captures the beauty of the upward intake
of about 8 inches of fresh, unplowed, light powder snow
10/18/07 — shot with an ELPH
Boeing’s Dreamlifter lifting jobs to Japan
while another one bites the dust
My full explanation is with these photos:
7/13/07 – almost midnight
A double-overhang ~40-footer!
Canon ELPH SD-800
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The team:
Saed, Kitiona ‘Muku,’ & Wayne
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7/13/07 – Sunset – 11PM
Shot with a little Canon ELPH (SD-800) almost 3 years ago
Tow photos below:
12/16/09
Lehua pulls two pallets up to the racks
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Rita and Lehua help out the transporter
which is made in France
where they don’t have frosty conditions
12/18/09
12/18/09 — afternoon
F7 shot from F2
Roger drives a loader on by
while John operates the aft main-deck loader
12/17/09
An NWA freighter on F-2,
myself,
an LD3 container
12/14/09
Shot just before cargo nose door totally closed
12/10/09
Low afternoon sun
reflects off hoarfrost covered trees
beyond the runway
11/16/09 — pre-sunrise
Anchorage skyline from just to the right of
the warmest spot underneath a freighter
The louvers blow hot air onto the wing-walkers,
waiting for pushback.
10/29/09
James prepares to unravel the Matrix
11/5/09
Pam beautifies the front office
2/12/10
Lehua brings in China Air
Boeing’s major outsourcing statement — the Boeing Dreamlifter.
This one plane shows to what great length American corporations are willing to go in order to make the term, “made in America” obsolete.
The American Dream Stealer was partially designed in Moscow and Spain, and assembled in Taiwan, so the largest 787 parts can now be made in Japan and Italy, whose wages are probably not significantly different than U.S. wages, anyway. What’s up?
Imagine the cost and time needed to design this bizarre aircraft, which is among the ugliest ever. It’s not as if Seattle couldn’t have used the jobs.
[Two photos follow Hair Net]
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2/5/10
Hair Net
or Blue Bonnet?
From: Wikipedia
The Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), Dreamlifter, is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Constructed by drastic modifications to an existing Boeing 747-400, the Dreamlifter is used exclusively for transporting aircraft parts to Boeing from suppliers around the world.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes announced on October 13, 2003 that due to the length of time required by marine shipping, air transport will be the primary method of transporting parts for the 787 (then known as the 7E7). Three used passenger 747-400 aircraft were to be converted into an outsize configuration in order to ferry sub-assemblies from Japan and Italy to Charleston, South Carolina and then to Everett, Washington for final assembly. The Large Cargo Freighter has a bulging fuselage similar in concept to the Super Guppy and Airbus A300-600ST Beluga outsize cargo aircraft, which are also used for transporting wings and fuselage sections. It can hold three times the volume of a 747-400F freighter.
The LCF conversion was partially designed by Boeing’s Moscow bureau and Boeing Rocketdyne with the swing tail designed in partnership with Gamesa Aeronautica of Spain. Modification is being carried out in Taiwan ….
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Humpy
Pink salmon are much less nutritious and tasty than kings, reds or silvers.
From: dictionary.com
humpback salmon
–noun
a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters:
so-called because of the hump that appears
behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning
[when corporations are ready for dream stealing – ed.]
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Dream Stealer
America’s getting jacked!
Related Photo:
2/4/10
Robert on the headset during ‘engine start’
2/11/10 – sunrise
A red-tail parks again at F1 (air freight, spot #1).
But this time it’s a 757 passenger aircraft.
One of our main-deck TLD loaders
heading down the ALCAN.
Heading east on International Airport Road
3/3/10
Across Minnesota Drive
January 23
Paul V. (left) and Kyle (right —
Jody‘s husband, former NWA mechanic,
and now general manager of Pegasus,
which does maintenance for China Air and others)
In previous years,
this has been our view of the Chugach Mountains from NWA freighters.
Today, we view the Chugach range from China Air,
the airline of Taiwan, The Republic of China,
a free country which I’ve had the great priviledge of visiting twice,
many years ago.
Our now sparsely populated freight facility
is the building behind the loaders
And the building on the left
is filled with equipment we no longer use
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This China Air 747-400F is parked at Delta’s (formerly NWA) F-2 gate, where we’ve worked numerous NWA freighters, once upon a time.
We’re still handling freight for Delta’s passenger planes, and at least for now we have a contract with China Air, which we park, dispatch and occasionally do a partial load on.
This was supposed to be a simple load. A 20-footer on, a few pallets bumped, a few moved…. But when we got onboard, we saw the two overhangs that opposed each other at about where I took this shot. And the aft center lock was fixed, immovable.
Paul, especially, quickly assessed the situation and cracked the code — and the plane left on time. It’s great to work with masters of the trade!
However, I often think of the many others who’ve also mastered their skills but no longer get a chance to use them — because of cargo’s last stand — last year.
Greetings!
First, a professional photographer was hired by Northwest Airlines in Anchorage to take some photos of our 747 Cargo operations’ last days. We didn’t have much notice, so many employees, including Yours Truly, didn’t know about the shoot. It wasn’t well attended, but the shots are now available, and the photographer took a number of shots that I didn’t.
They’re available here: layer8.zenfolio.com/nwcargo
Here’s one example:
Group photo shot by Bryan Hickok
Many of us are missing
Also, I’ve been dragging my feet getting the rest of my photos online, but I have a strategy. I have a new monitor on the way that will help immensely. And after I get my computer back from the shop I’ll start posting the shots, earliest photos first.
I am still working for NWA in Anchorage; though, we’re pretty much Delta now, the world’s largest airline. We still have air freight, but it will only fly on passenger aircraft now. For those of us still working here at cargo, our jobs are still very iffy. I would love to be a full-time photographer someday.
My goal is still to post more of the fine-art photos that I’ve shot, especially the flower photos. I’m very excited about them, but didn’t particularly want them used by others for financial gain. It has occurred to me that I could put the text for the chapters of my online prophecy/someday-book, Let Us Be ONE onto the photos. This would help watermark the images as well as create more interest in “Let Us Be ONE.” I would really like to have one photo for each of the 34 chapters — to knock people’s socks off!!!
Lots of work ahead, though. I could really use prayer support, for those of you so inclined. There’s a lot of hate out there and I’m more than I’d like to be mostly a one-man operation. It’s not easy fighting this globalist regime that wants to dominate our lives. Photography is one of the ways I can shine the light, brightly — focusing on the positive!!!
Not much time to mess around, anymore.
Thanks!
Jeff Fenske : )
It was sad to see it end. Monday, 12/28 was the last flight.
No one will ever see a NWA Cargo plane flying over Anchorage (or anywhere else) again, for they are all parked in the desert or being dismantled.
And many of us will never see each other again.
But I’ve taken a ton of photos to help capture the memories and to share what an amazing and very special experience this has been.
Now I have my work cut out for me: sorting out, converting from RAW, and posting all of these photos. It’s hard to estimate a time frame, but I’d guess it will take me a few weeks to get them online.
God bless!
Jeff Fenske
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As of 2006, Northwest Airlines Cargo was the largest cargo carrier among U.S. combination passenger and cargo airlines. NWA Cargo’s fleet of dedicated Boeing 747 freighter aircraft flew from some key cities the United States and East Asia as well as Amsterdam connecting with the carrier’s cargo hub in Anchorage, Alaska (Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport), facilitating the quick transfer of cargo between large cities on both sides of the Pacific. NWA Cargo also transports freight aboard the passenger fleet of Northwest Airlines to more than 250 cities worldwide. Delta announced that the NWA Cargo hub will be shut down by the end of 2009. (source)
Julie
Customers’ pets never had a better friend
Taken with Julie’s camera
September, 2008
11/27/09
11/5/09
Windshield washing from ye ole #1, de-icing truck
‘Peace’ from the main deck loader — load sheet in hand — Lolanie!
11/05/09
© Jeff Fenske
Rita wanted a photo for her Christmas card
11/27
It’s all coming down on top of us.
Yet we can be more than conquerors
if we Love the Lord, our God with ALL of our heart,
soul,
mind,
and strength,
and our neighbors as ourselves —
no matter what comes down!!!
“It’s going to be ugly.”
9/19/09
Self-portrait, hand-held
(NOT Photoshopped)
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