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Random pics from my birthday Friday...took my Mustang for a spin in the morning, then went out to a great local lakefront seafood place for dinner...when I came out, found the valet had parked my CT6 out front next to a Bentley coupe.

Spectacular. I would definitely enjoy that.

Good morning! When you do see this IRL, it is definitely funny.

Happy Birthday @Robert Hall!

This was on my homepage. This is possibly the weirdest go-around I've seen on video. It was Lufthansa's big bird (latest version) at LAX. (Leave the sound on) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/moment-lufthansa-plane-s-touch-and-go-landing-caught-on-live-stream/vi-AA1nysOo?ocid=socialshare I was on one major go-around about 20 years and, it too, was on an older Lufthansa 747 going from Munich to SFO to connect up to Portland. He was still some 200 feet off the ground when he announced it, the engines started purring strongly, the plane started climbing, and the go around from my window showed San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, then on down south next to Stanford, and then back up over San Francisco Bay to land.

I believe the jet lag is over, but a week ago I spent from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm in flight, with the time change realistically putting me in at about 5:00 am the next day - Rome to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Houston, and Houston to Florida. I picked Houston as the connection point because Lufthansa was using the popular 747-400 while the few operators of the jumbo have 747-8s (so does Lufthansa). That's a 747-400 at Frankfurt, also with the new livery, but not the plane bound to Houston ... Lufthansa also uses this equipment on the Frankfurt-Toronto route. Most North America flights use the 747-8. This is the one for the flight to Houston ... the one at the left has the old blue and gold livery Going over the top of the world to get from point A to point B The Germans make Kanada and Kongo look and sound Germanic ... love the flight monitor instead of trying to take in a movie or music with the background noise The plane's icon is quite close to Greenland ... some flights on this route go over it and some fly even further south of it. I like that last window seat in one of the "twins" all the way at the back, with there being 3 across just a few rows up The view forward from the rearmost of 5 cabin segments on the main level ... I am as taken with the the jumbo jet as I was as a teenager, if not more. The diversity of people on these international flights is interesting and something to see. The outermost engine on this quadjet seen while descending over Eastern Texas and approaching Houston-IAH Bush airport. When the seat flight monitor tells you how many miles you are from The Woodlands, you know you're close to Houston! It was an amazing day and all flight segments got in a little early. Also, for the -400 not being as humidified and climate controlled as the 8-i version, the almost 10 hour flight did not wear on me all that much. I'm staying temporarily to do some things I have to do and then heading back.

They "sent" me this article. It was a wake up call and I didn't know how good we had it, so to speak. This is sad. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/the-a340/index.html It contains a lot of great information. I came to realize that pilots and passengers alike very much like them. There's the earlier 300 with the 4 "skinny" engines and I flew on one by Swiss in the recent past. However, I haven't flown on the 600, with its 4 large engines, in a long time. Since the 600 is longer and carries a lot of passengers, those 4 large engines "might" pencil. Currently, only Lufthansa flies the A340-600. They also have a small number of the earlier A340-300s, as does Swiss. Lufthansa brought the A340s back while temporarily mothballing their ginormous A380s, which are being put back into service (out of Munich and not out of Frankfurt). Here's one coming into LAX. Beautiful. I would really like to fly on an Airbus A340-600, so I'll be looking on the schedules to get routed on one.