Earlier this month, I mentioned that I would attend the 6th annual United Family Day Open House in San Francisco. It turns out to be a great event!
United and Continental parked four planes, one A320 in new United livery, another United A320 retro-jet, a Continental Boeing 737-900ER retro-jet and a Boeing 777-200 in the tulip livery. They also had a Boeing 747-400 in new livery making a low pass fly-by during the open house.
Here are some pictures:
The plane pull took place at about 1:30 p.m. and a group of Flyertalkers pulled this A320.
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| ANA departing for Narita |
Retro-jets were the stars!
United 747 fly-by! Wooooooosh! And there it goes! Too fast and I wasn't able to zoom in!
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| Beautiful day! |
In 2012, United and Continental will become one company!
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| Retro-jets! |
The military also flew some of their front-line fighter jets to the show. There was the Blue Angels' F/A-18s, Fat Albert, and a couple of F-15s.
These are the killers!
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| So damn cool. |
And the Blue Angels!
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| Ready for the Fleet Week! |
And the Army brought their work horse, UH-60 Black Hawk.
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| Beautiful baby |
And the tulip color. Not much days left for this design.
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| A beauty |
Later in the after noon, I checked out their engine testing facility.
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| Amazing! |
For those who weren't able to make it this year, let me tell you, it's a plane freak's "wet dream" comes true. So, look sharp, when registration on Flyertalk.com opens up again next September!
Again, I was able to make it, thanks to the generosity from United Airlines to the frequent flyer community. I hope this event gets better each year.
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