Airport 1975

Sequels usually aren't as interesting as the originals. These videos probably continue that trend. I think they're fun to watch but my video of incoming flights just seems to have more pizzazz.

After we wrapped up the incoming flights sequence we went back to the hotel. Our room was on the 14^th floor of the Airport Hilton. Our window faced the eastern ends of the south runways.

I put the camera as close to the window as the tripod would let it get and pulled the blackout curtain around it. I fired up the camera and watched the activity for a while. You can see a bit of reflection from the lights in the room on the left side of the video for a while. The camera snapped away for a while after the lights went out. Some time later I woke up, turned off the camera and closed the blackout curtain all the way so the morning sun wouldn't wake us.

This nighttime video of the airport shows the activity from 10:50pm until 12:15am. The planes are usually hard to make out. You see mostly their lights lighting their way. Watching in HD and in full screen probably will help.

This was shot at a rate of a frame every six seconds and played back at 15 frames per second. You see a minute and a half each second.


I started the camera again in the morning. We watched the planes a bit then went off for breakfast. The camera kept snapping away while we ate.

This time you get to see planes. This shows you Saturday morning's traffic from 7:15 till 9:20. I was hoping for fun cloud action but there is only a little churning on the right side.


It's fun to watch planes. I hope you had some fun, too.