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The day started off at 4:00am so that I could catch the 6:30am flight to Denver, change planes in Denver, and fly on to San Jose, CA.
The freakin security checkpoint at MSP took 45 minutes to get through. Good thing I left myself enough time.
Here are some pictures I took in the air on the Denver to San Jose leg of the flight.
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Frontier Airlines puts a picture of a different animal on each one of their aircraft -- a large picture on the tail fin and a small version
of the same picture on the stabilizers at the ends of the wings. The Airbus A319 that took me from MSP to Denver had a picture of a bottlenose dolphin on it named "Flippy". This picture is of the
grey owl that they painted on the Airbus A318 that took me from Denver to San Jose. I apologize for the washed-out color on the picture -- my digital camera didn't
like taking pictures through the plexiglass aircraft window.
I don't recall what the name of the owl was -- it's listed at the front of the cabin near the front door, but since I
almost missed my flight in Denver I didn't get a chance to read it (I was literally the last person to board the plane before
they shut the door). I also didn't get a chance to read it on the way out of the plane in San Jose. The gate we
arrived at in San Jose was one of the old-school kind that doesn't have a tube-like jetway that connects the aircraft door to the terminal, so they ended up using "air stairs" (those staircases on wheels that you
see in airport footage from the 1950s). Since I was about 4 rows from the back of the plane, and the ground crew at
San Jose rolled "air stairs" up to both doors on the aircraft, I had the rare experience of walking out of the back door of
the aircraft and walking on the tarmac around the still-spinning jet engine to get to the door leading into the terminal building.
There was an airport security guard person there hustling us into the building, otherwise I would have gotten a decent close-up
of the whole airplane.
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