So I was drivin' from the airport heading home.. I saw this bird...

[Hawkeye-X]

Beautiful thing I saw - being loaded..

Had to turn around twice just to see the rare bird in Denver.

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1. that first pic is too small, i can't make it out. can you make it bigger?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

What he/she said!

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Hawkeye-X...

The lettering looks Russian...

What do they call it?

Looks like it'll hold a lot of stuff!



:hi:

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. It's an Antonov AN-124, and yes they do hold a lot of stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-124

[kentauros]

3. And here I thought you were going to say that you drove your Bugatti Veyron

into a La Marque lagoon :P

It's always cool to see the weirder planes, like the Guppy around NASA-JSC. I've also seen some MIGs in what looked like cold-weather camo flying out of Ellington Field, too. They had all the proper Soviet-era markings on them, though I've been told they may have been flying to the Beeville, Texas, training center.

Did you get any shots of your own? That first one looks like Florida, so probably from the Cape.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. If I did, it would be in a shadow

due to the sun's position when I saw the AN-124. I barely made out the tail colors because I wanted to identify the carrier - I know Volga-Dnepr or Polet comes to Denver to do the hauling. In this case, I was able to identify it as Volga-Dnepr.

And it would have come from my camera phone.

[kentauros]

12. Right, because you would have been on your phone when you drove

into the lagoon and blamed it on this "bird" :P

That would have been an amazing sight, though. I wonder, too, how many people would look at it and say, "It's just a plane." ;)

[Capn Sunshine]

5. so, being loaded, you saw a rare bird

does your wife know you drive like that?

[Hawkeye-X]

10. LOL!

if I did that, I'd be looking at this:

[stewartcolbert08]

6. Very cool!

Thanks for sharing! Cool Picture!

[jobycom]

7. There's gotta be a Yakoff Smirnoff joke in there somewhere, but I got nuthin'.

Cool bird.

[trof]

8. I flew one of these for 10 years:

But not for Cargolux.
For these guys:

[Demoiselle]

11. The top pic cries out for a caption.

Having said that, I got nuthin.'
What an extraordinary looking plane!

[bluedigger]

13. I'll get back to you on that after I plug in the 60 inch monitor.

:wtf:

"Preview" is your friend! :rofl:

[kentauros]

14. Or you could just hit the "Fit to Width" button on your Opera browser

:P

[bluedigger]

15. Oh no.

I just started using firefox a couple days ago - don't friggin' geek me with yet another better mousetrap!:rofl:

[kentauros]

16. Of course, so many people don't know this, but Opera has been around a long time.

They made tabbed-browsing originally. I've been using it for years. Firefox became popular because all the open-source geeks pushed it so much. I tried Firefox and hated it. Things I took for granted with Opera weren't done at all in Firefox (like remembering all of your tabbed windows the next time you opened your browser, instead of losing them all when you shut it down...)

You can always try it and see how you like it. I know I'm in an extreme minority of Opera users, both here and everywhere else, but there's nothing Firefox (or its users) can do to make me want to try it again :P

[bluedigger]

17. I'm just giving this Firefox a test drive.

Maybe I'll give Opera a looksie, too. I just want I/E convenience with security and efficiency. Hey, a guy can dream...

[kentauros]

18. Anything BUT Internet Exploder will give you security and efficiency

;)

You might try Google's Chrome, too. I've never tried it, as I'm happy with what I've got :)

[pokerfan]

19. IE convenience?

:shrug: