ROMA SPOTTERS CLUB
Roma Spotters Club was created, in October 2009, by some spotters living in Rome and in the surrounding of the city. The main goal of the association is to share, promote and spread the exciting and unusual hobby of plane spotting. To be part of "Roma Spotters Club" means use, share and learn aeronautics and photographic culture, means also friendship and fun, means spending mornings and afternoons outdoor, means watching sunrise and sunset together. It means, above all, admiring aircrafts, which are definitely the best creations of physics and technology of the modern times. "Plane Spotting" is what “spotters” do: stay around airports looking for aircrafts landing, taking off or just taxiing and take pictures of them with their powerful cameras and lenses, always hoping to make a masterpiece, a perfect picture, or to take a shot of a rare aircraft. "Roma Spotters Club" works constantly to become the Roman point of reference for spotters coming from all over the world. In this website you can find information and guides about plane spotting in Rome Fiumicino airport. You can also take part at the periodical meetings organized by the club, inside and outside the airport fences.
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Photographer: Sorce Fabio
Date: 03.01.2010
Aircraft: Boeing 767-300/ER
Airline: Delta Airlines
Spotting Point: FCO - bridge
Description: frequent guest of Fiumicino airport, Delta Airlines delights us sending a "special livery" to celebrate the no-profit association Habitat for Humanity. 767 operated flight DL145 to New York JFK, here catched on take off from runway 25, immediately before retracting the landing gear.
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Date: 03.01.2010
Aircraft: Boeing 767-300/ER
Airline: Delta Airlines
Spotting Point: FCO - bridge
Description: frequent guest of Fiumicino airport, Delta Airlines delights us sending a "special livery" to celebrate the no-profit association Habitat for Humanity. 767 operated flight DL145 to New York JFK, here catched on take off from runway 25, immediately before retracting the landing gear.
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TIPS
THRUST REVERSERS
Thrust reversers are, toghether with spoilers and braking system, one of the devices used to stop the airplane after landing. They are placed on the engine nacelles and their aim is to deflect upstream, by the deflection of mobile doors, the secondary (bypass), or both, engine flows. There are different types of reverser: bucket, clamshell, translating cowl, petal.
Thrust reversers are, toghether with spoilers and braking system, one of the devices used to stop the airplane after landing. They are placed on the engine nacelles and their aim is to deflect upstream, by the deflection of mobile doors, the secondary (bypass), or both, engine flows. There are different types of reverser: bucket, clamshell, translating cowl, petal.
NIKON 70-300 VR
Focal lenght & Maximum Aperture: 70-300mm 1:4.5-5.6Lens Construction: 17 elements in 12 groups
Diagonal Angle of View: 34°20' - 8°10'
Focus Adjustment: Inner focusing
Closest focusing distance: 1.5m
Zoom System: Rotating type
Filter Size: 67mm
Max. Diameter x Lenght, Weight: 80mm x 143.5mm, 725g
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