I was roaming around in the vicinity of John Wayne Airport earlier today and decided to take a bunch of pictures of planes taking off. My goal was to find the best spot and then decide if it was good enough to merit coming back when the light was better.
In a nutshell, it wasn't. There's just no good place for this. However, there's no point in wasting the pictures I took, so here they are. Do I have any airplane nerds in the audience who can identify them? Click to embiggen.
1. MIG 29
2. Avro Vulcan
3. Sopwith Camel
4. Mitsubishi Zero
5. Messerschmitt Me 262
6. Lockheed U-2
7. Vickers Wellington
8. Space shuttle
What did I win?
It's hard to tell even after embiggening, but you might have #2 and #7 reversed.
A Snoopy WWI Fighter pilot plushie.
I was going with
5. high-top boiler ornithopter,
but I think you've got it.
Let's do the easy ones:
3) Cessna 172 (...could be a 182 which is slightly larger)
4) Cessna Citation (or some variant of that. The straight wing is the tell)
5) 737 operated by Southwest
7) Beechcraft King Air
2) Might be some sort of Gulfstream (based on the winglets and high aspect-ratio wing)
and the Cessna is as big at the 737--who knew?
(scale bars are always needed).
The rear engines--I don't think MD-80's are flying anymore. So, regional jets---you went with Gulfstream, so I'll pick Bombardier. I'd need a plane spotting guide to help.
Delta still flies the 717 (the follow on to the MD-80) but none of the planes shown have a long enough fuselage combined with the high tail. John Wayne is used a lot by American oligarchs for their personal jets, hence Citations, Gulfstreams, and the like. Larry Ellison got in trouble for repeatedly landing his Gulfstream V after the 11:30 pm noise curfew.
Larry was doing that at San Jose, though. SJC, airport to the billionaires.
Unlike Google, who somehow has landing rights at Moffat.
#3 has a completely blunt nose, so that means its a 172 - what I learned on.
The field I learned at had a King Air visit regularly, so that's definitely #7.
#5 737-700 - if the clock on Kevin's camera was set accurately, we could probably figure-out which flight.
Assuming the “934” on the underside forward is short for N934WN I would go with flight WN976 from SNA to OAK.
And that the clock on Kevin’s camera is off.
Agree. Wife has a 172. It is undergoing annual and she is lusting to fly.
She drowns her fly lust with skiing at Sugar Bowl.
drowns her fly lust with skiing at sugar bowl
is my new go-to innuendo.
+1
Pretty sure you are right about #7. The tail indicates it is a company called “Wheels Up”:
https://wheelsup.com/exclusive-fleet
5. is def a Southwest 737. The others all appear to be private aircraft like Gulfstreams or something, about which I know nothing.
Contra golack, I think that #6 is in fact an MD-80. In any event, planes with that configuration are pretty common at SNA
This day and age, more likely to be a “717” aka a late-model MD-80 like the MD-95.
The MDs/717 don’t have a straight trailing edge on the wing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_717
Fuselage not long enough, wings too straight and not tapered enough, MD-80/717's have gear bay doors that cover up the wheels.
As J. Frank Parnell noted above, 717's are still around. There are also some MD-80 series jets still flying--but not in passenger service in the US:
https://simpleflying.com/42-years-and-counting-which-airlines-still-fly-the-md-80
I wonder if some of them pictured could be tri-jets?
10 planes.................all flying out of the same airport?....................in California..................?????????????????
Since when are we doing an "Afghanistan styled" evacuation from California?
Russian Air Force?
There is only one answer, the Marine Answer: [pointing] Oooooooooohhhhhhhh!
If it's Southwest, it's a 737.
#5 is a bus.