Super Rare El Al livery In Action!!

[Aharon Dayan]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice history recreation of real world El Al 707 flight from LIRF Rome–Fiumicino International Airport located in Rome, Italy to LFML Marseille Provence Airport located 17 miles northwest of Marseille in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur région of France.

Fully boarded and ready for pushback!!



Dig nice tail!!!  Sorry about peel weathering on some words. Blame on hot weather and cold weather!!!



After pushback now starting engines with massive start up smoke



Engines roaring with more smoke to start taxi from passenger apron to taxiway to short of runway 34R



Entering into taxiway D to taxi to short of runway 34R



Sorry cannot resist another view of the tail



After holding short of the runway and after finally receiving take off clearance from the airport tower now revving up engines with more massive smokes to start taxi and enter into runway for take off



Airborne now retracting landing gear  on climb to Fl320



Making little left turn westward to start the route PODOX T246 MIRSA UL127 STP A3 RUBIT G7 LANKO



leaving Italy to enter and cross waters of Tyrrhenian Sea



Still on climb to fl320 now passing through clouds



Now cruising at fl320 above lots of puffs of clouds



Passing island of Pianosa known as prison island where there used to be penal colony housing of 800 prisoners during era of 1900s especially Mafia bosses until 1998 the date of closing of prison. Now it has only 10 residents



Approaching to pass on right Elba island which was famous exile place for Napoleon under capture for years until he managed to escape to France



Passing on left island of Corsica



Passing LFKB Bastia – Poretta Airport  located 11 miles south southeast of Bastia on the same island



Descending from Fl320 to 5,000 ft on way to runway 32R



At 5,000 ft above French countyside



Making right turn on way to the runway passing stadium in wrong shape called Orange Velodrome which is home to soccer team ligue 1 and rugby team RC Toulon



Passing famous church called Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde below behind the wings of the plane and nice port called Vieux Port below the plane nose
 


On final runway to runway 32R with background view of high green hills of Parc Naturel Regina de la Sainte-Baume



Seconds before touchdown



Ok 2 seconds before touchdown



Touchdown!!!



Front landing gear gliding down smoothly



Front wheels making ground contact



Exiting from runway into taxiway D3 toward gate



Revving up engines during long taxi to spew out smoke to excite airport spotting photograhers into using up their entire 35mm film rolls



Arriving at gate



Thank you for viewing and please stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

[Mike Fries]

cool bird!

[Aharon Dayan]

Mike,

Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

Aharon