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Western Airline Having Fun With Beautiful Sunset Arrival

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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a beautiful sunset flight from PAJN Juneau International Airport located seven nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Juneau in Alaska to PAFA Fairbanks International Airport  located three miles southwest of the central business district of Fairbanks

Taxiing to short of runway 26

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Holding short of runway 26 awaiting for take off clearance from the airport tower

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Engines roaring with heavy thick smoke as the plane after receiving take off clearance starts to enter into runway for take off

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Engine thrust being revved up with thick smokes to start runway take off

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Roaring down the runway during take off run

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Airborne on climb to FL330 via waypoints SSR OMSUN GLOWS PERZO CACHE

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Still doing power climbing

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Beautiful wing view

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Approaching Chichagof island on way to SSR waypoint

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Intercepting SSR waypoint and making right turn toward north to the destination

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Wing view of Excursion Inlet which is renowned for largest fish canneries in the world
 
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Climbing climbing climbing

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Now cruising at FL330 although it is weird to see sun and half moon in same screenshot

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Cruising along Glacier Bay National Park and Reserve

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Wing view of waters of Southeast Alaska Dive Fishery Research Areas

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Cruising

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Sun starting to set

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Wing view of sun starting to set

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Passing Kluane National Park and Reserve

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Dig beautiful sunset above landscape of Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Reserve

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

Here is the llink: http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/9522/western-airline-having-beautiful-arrival

Thank you for viewing!!  Please stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

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Love the shots of the WESTERN livery in this classic 720B variant. HJG textures always look eye-catching with great details...!

Also, noted the "extra" smoke...those were the days...!

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P7878,

Thanks for your kind words and you are right about 720B model and HJG repaint!!!   Excellent identification that you have!

Regards,

Aharon

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Aharon:...Credit really goes to you...🙂....You have such excellent full-fuselage images with "720B" written so prominently near the tail...!

Of course, it's worth noting that the JT3D (Turbofan) engines on the 720B were significantly more efficient than the JT3C (Turbojet) engines on the original 720....(the only outliers to not follow the 7x7 naming convention...nonetheless, very interesting variants of 707...thanks for posting...!)

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Once again, Thanks for your kind words  :)

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Great shots, I miss the Western commercials "Three feet for your two legs, the oooooonly way to fly"

Being from DEN and working in the business in the 60's, 70's and beyond I have  a few hours in the back end of many WAL ac!

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Awesome face, Brucets and thank you for viewing my screenshots.  Please enjoy my past and future screenshots.

Regards,

Aharon

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I was on one of those WAL 720's one night enroute to HNL, ex SFO, and we lost an engine on take off. Diverted to LAX for a different ac. 

Memory's galore here, Aharon! Great pic's!

Bruce

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I'm coughing just looking at all the smoke! 🤧

Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!)  Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11),  EVGA 1300W PSU
Netgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displays
Full array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.

  • 4 weeks later...
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Brucets and Clutch Cargo,

Thanks for your kind words and my apologies for my late reply

@Clutch Cargo,  you own Simwest software company??

Regards,

Aharon

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yep... that be me 😊

Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!)  Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11),  EVGA 1300W PSU
Netgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displays
Full array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.

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21 minutes ago, Clutch Cargo said:

yep... that be me 😊

@Clutch Cargo,

Impressive!!!  Nice to meet you!!!  I think I have from your scenery company freeware KABQ Albuquerque airport scenery that I have not yet installed in my pc probably because I am too afraid.  LOL

Will have to install it sometime and maybe make nice screenshots!

Regards,

Aharon

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Nothing to be afraid of 😲.  Give 'er a go and enjoy!  Would luv to see some screenies (guess I'm a little bias, ha!)

Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!)  Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11),  EVGA 1300W PSU
Netgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displays
Full array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.

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Agreed!!! LOL

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