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Joined: 15 May 2006
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Location: West Lafayette, IN

Now that I am a student at Purdue, I having been walking out to the airport to catch the charters jets that fly the sports teams around. It appears that Miami Air is the charter service for Big Ten athletics.

Here is a Miami Air B737-800 in the rain:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ataindy/4027777841/

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Joined: 15 May 2006
Posts: 728
Location: West Lafayette, IN

USA 3000 that brought the Michigan State football team in:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ataindy/4115965999/

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Joined: 03 Jan 2008
Posts: 141
Location: Lafayette, IN

ATA ...long time no see...

I was at KLAF the morning of and the evening after the MSU game. I was there about an hour before the A320 departed, and stayed until after it left. There was a group of a few guys there with a scanner waiting for it to depart. Were you in that group? I was the tall guy w/ brown hair standing on the FBO ramp with the camera shooting the corporate jet ops that day. There was a gal standing out there with me too, if it helps to identify.

Let me know when you want to go to LAF together sometime. They've started to recognize me at the FBO and will usually let me (us if you come with) out on the ramp to shoot flight ops if the ramp's not too busy.

Send me a private message, I'll give you my email/cell phone number. I am free this Saturday and Sunday, weather is supposed to be decent. I've got a lot of LAF photos to share if interested.

DW

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Hey DW,

I went over there around one in the afternoon by myself. I usually go into the terminal to get shots. That's where the Miami Air shot was taken. I shot the A320 through the fence right by the new Aviation Technology building.

It would be cool to get on the ramp!

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ExpressJet ERJ-145 that brought Wake Forest in:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ataindy/4169551697/

Now that we are in basketball season most of the charters will be RJ's.