Ed Force One - PVG

Trip to Shanghai was our last short flight before another long one. No real explanation why the plane spotters are not coming out to see me... maybe they've been jailed?

Photo by @theravenage (those awesome passengers of mine)

 

Jaws again! (Photo by Dalei Fang)

Nothing worth reading except the 14:00 departure (Photo by Dalei Fang)

 

 (Photo by Dalei Fang)

Ed Force One - PEK

This was our Maiden trip to China and it met the expectations... Media blackout! It appears that the only plane-spotter pics of my arrival had to be smuggled out for posting on Twitter.

Get used to it. You'll see little of the real me while in China, but perhaps you'll see plenty of cheap copies! Ha!

In good old fashioned communist tradition I will not give photo credits... the smuggled photos belong to everyone! (In reality, I will not give credit to protect the identities of such brave, life risking paparazzi.)

Ed Force One - HND

Our longest leg of the trip was from Los Angeles to Tokyo. The flight path took us over the Aleutian Islands and even the Kamchatka peninsula. Not only was this the longest leg it was also the most dangerous... after all, you never know when the Russians will get an itch to shoot a Boeing out of the sky.

1) 1978 - KAL902 (707) was shot down by a Su-15 near Murmansk.
2) 1983 - KAL007 (747) was shot down by the USSR in the same area we flew over
3) 2014 -  MH17 (777).  A few years back they got the itch again over Ukraine

Getting back to point - we arrived in Haneda without being shot down.



Photo by @7N1GPI



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Photo by @yappunyan_hk

Snack bars in the background (Falcons and Gulfstreams) Photo by @canon_hiroshi

Photo by @japan_navy507



Photo by @lovelyrockqueen

 

 

Photo by @terajiro

 

Sy hi to Nicko! (Photo by @Cl7777)

 

Photo by @BondsSam

 

Photo by @yoseinomori