Key West Trip (Lots of Pictures)

[Adler]

Went on a family vacation to Key West. You may have seen a few of these facebook quality shots the daily pic thread, but here's them all...

An old hijacked Antonov, now for sale:

Spotting Key West:

Practicing landings with a stiff x-wind

Turbine Legend!

One of my favorite shots of the trip:

Navy F5, as seen from my campsite:

The view on the drive leaving the Keys:

Pallet Fire!

And now, the exploration to find a suitable are for spotting Naval Air Station Key West...
A very secure fence keeping terrorists and college kids out of the navy base:

All the shoes that wash ashore get hung here

Cuban boat

Hobo Fortress

The course led us through this...

Cool boat

Trail which we may or may not have taken which may or may not have been within the Navy base:

Walking through a salt pond

What is left of Highway 4-A, which used to be the major road going through the keys.

I'm guessing a hurricane placed this boat here

Navy ATC

Runway 31, Naval Air Station Key West.

It was a fun trip, not that it's completely over though. I'm staying in Lake Worth now, going to start my CFI at American Flyers - Pampano the 13th; so any JC'ers in the area, let me know, cause don't know anyone here.

 

[Tadpole]

Great photos! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Winglet]

Nice pictures! I have flown to key West many times but I havent had the chance to actually explore the keys on the ground.

 

[Polar742]

Great shots!

I'm surprised that Cubana Antonov was still there. I arrived the day it showed up. We almost didn't get rooms because there were so many government employees in dark suits that arrived.

Was there a AN2 and perhaps a Cuban DC3 there as well?

 

[Adler]

Great shots!

I'm surprised that Cubana Antonov was still there. I arrived the day it showed up. We almost didn't get rooms because there were so many government employees in dark suits that arrived.

Was there a AN2 and perhaps a Cuban DC3 there as well?

That's awesome! No colt or DC3 though.

 

[elmetal]

As far as American Flyers and Pompano area,

I fly out of KFXE and I actually just recently met one of the instructors over at American Flyers and went flying with him,

PM Me if there's anything you want to know about broward county that I may help with

 

[challock]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

 

[1B9Pilot]

Cool shots!

 

[Pilot0486]

fantastic shots!

 

[ppragman]

Great shots!

I'm surprised that Cubana Antonov was still there. I arrived the day it showed up. We almost didn't get rooms because there were so many government employees in dark suits that arrived.

Was there a AN2 and perhaps a Cuban DC3 there as well?

Did Cubana have DC3s or Li-2s? Hmmmmm, Waco?

 

[Adler]

Did Cubana have DC3s or Li-2s? Hmmmmm, Waco?

check out the engine inlets on the LI2's.

 

[TaleSpin]

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Fly2GetHigh]

Wow I could even shoot that from the B1900 no problem. much luv to the the pilots who get this run

 

[K902]

Thanks for posting these great pictures! Makes living in WI in the winter even worse!

 

[Mark815]

Great shots! Thanks for sharing!

 

[BeRich]

They are cool pictures, though

 

[gne in prog]

They are cool pictures, though

Not the oldest one to rise from the dead today.

 

[BajtheJino]

Hobo fortress.

 

[bc2209]

Very cool man. I love the key west express paint scheme