Spirit Airlines flight 2398 passes over Daphne’s May Day park late the morning of MAY 13 2025 while on a flight from Orlando to Houston. Captured at an altitude of 38,000 feet or about seven miles, the Airbus A320 moves at a ground speed of 413 knots or 475 mph during the roughly two hour…
American Airlines flight 1251 passes directly over Flying Creek in Fairhope MAY 11 2025 while on a flight from Los Angeles to Miami. Captured at an altitude of 35,000 feet or around 6.5 miles, the Airbus A321 moves at a ground speed of 503 knots or 578 mph during the roughly four and a half…
A US Army Boeing CH-47F Chinook passes over Point Clear late Tuesday afternoon. The helicopter is captured around 3,000 feet high, moving at a groundspeed of 136 knots or 156 mph during a roughly 90 minute flight that started from Houma, LA with landing in Pensacola. A heavy-lift tandem rotor helicopter, the Chinook serves both…
A US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon crew flies over Fairhope several times MAY 4th 2025 while practicing touch-and-go landings at Brookley Field in Mobile. Based out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the Poseidon is a maritime patrol aircraft used for anti-submarine warfare, intelligence and reconnaissance. Also available for search and rescue, Poseidons can drop and…
A US Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry flies patterns over the eastern shore MAY 2nd 2025. Flying at an altitude of 29,000 feet or about 5.5 miles, the aircraft moves at a ground speed of 400 knots or 460 mph. The aircraft had flown to the Gulf coast from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma…
A US Navy Leonardo TH-73A Thrasher flies along the eastern shore the morning of MAY 2nd 2025. Captured about 975 feet up, the aircraft moves at a ground speed of 140 knots or 161 mph. The TH-73A is used for training aviators in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. A fleet of TH-73As is…
Shot the afternoon of APR 29 2025, looking north from Oak Hollow Farm in Fairhope. The airport is roughly 2.5 miles north of the Farm…
Wingfoot Two, one of Goodyear’s fleet of four blimps, passes over the Fairhope/Daphne area at midday Monday. Moving at about 55 knots or about 63 mph, the airship is captured about 1,225 feet up while heading northeast. Based near Fort Lauderdale, Wingfoot Two has the honor of being the first Goodyear blimp in over 50…
What might look like a close call in fact is not. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 heading from New Orleans to Washington, DC passes a business jet in the sky over Fairhope Thursday afternoon APR 24 2025. There was never a conflict between these two. The Southwest flight cruises 39,000 feet up, while the business…
American Airlines flight 492 passes directly over Gaillard Island in Mobile Bay at midday Thursday APR 24 2025 while on a flight from Chicago to Cancun. Captured at an altitude of 38,000 feet or about 7.2 miles, the Boeing 737 moves at a ground speed of 442 knots or 508 mph during the roughly three…