Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Interesting fact about the DC-9-10 series planes is that it had very short mileage range which was about 600 nautical miles if using full 90 passenger load factor. This kind of plane made it useful for short hops between major cities such as Montreal and Toronto or Montreal and Ottawa or NYC and Boston or so on.  Some airlines such as Eastern managed to extend the range to 1,000 nautical miles by using 50 seats instead of 90 seats.

Cayman Airways had leased DC-9-14 for a year or so finding it useful for short but important hops between important cities.

Presenting Cayman Airways DC-9-14's short hop flight from MWCR Owen Roberts International Airport located in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands to MKJP Norman Manley International Airport located on the Palisadoes tombolo in outer Kingston Harbour.......

At gate 3



Ready for pushback



Being pushed back by airport tractor in 1970 era newspaper photo



Showing identification marks of the plane indicating what airline that Cayman Airways had leased from



Leaving passenger apron to taxi to Charlie taxiway



Exiting from Charlie taxiway to enter into runway 08 for more taxi and backtrack



Taxiing on taxiway 08



Backtracking at beginning of runway 08



Airborne on climb to FL190 with background view of waters of North Sound



Background view of North Sound and West Bay suburb or section on end of the island stripe where if you can see the lake near end of island, it is called Governor's Creek.  If you can see a wealthy yacht behind the island, its wealthy passengers are swimming in waters of West Bay in front of Seven Mile Beach



Passing waters of Little Sound where if you can see little strip of land sticking out of right side of screenshot, that is where Kiabo Bar and Grill restaurant is and water in front of little strip of land is called Cayman Kai.



Climbing to FL190



Climbing above along shores of Northside section of Grand Cayman where you can see main road called Old Robin Road that becomes Queens Highway.  Green trees on left side of screenshot are part of Salina Reserve



Leaving Grand Cayman passing Colliers Bay where you can see The Reef Resort behind the tail's right fin



Cruising at FL190 across deep blue waters of Caribbean Sea







Passing waters of The Bight of island of Cayman Brac



Time to make right turn to Jamaica



Leaving Cayman Brac and its waters of Pollard Bay



Leaving Cayman Brac



Because of regulations of the forums not allowing more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this link below to view rest of the flight.

 

Here is hyperlink: http://vatil.org.il/forum/index.php/topic/42121-little-caribbean-baby/

Thank you for viewing.  Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

very nice indeed, like paint job

Rsperge,

 

Thanks for your kind words

 

Regards,

 

Aharon

Nice shots!

Thanks FDX777 for your kind words.

Regards,

 

Aharon