Some Pontiac Airport Plane Pics

While waiting for the fuel truck to refuel the plane, I got some decent pics of some aircraft taking off and landing at KPTK.

Interestingly enough, the planes coming in were a veritable bonanza of Cessnas:

A Cessna 172B:

 

A Cessna 182P:

Then there was the case of the Cessna prop plane versus the Cessna jet coming in to land on their respective runways:

The jet won that race.

A nice Cessna 550 coming in for a smooth touchdown:

 Yet another Cessna, this time a 560XL in a nice paint job and the thrust reversers working during the landing rollout:

 

The mirage from the heat of the engines and of the runways created some  interesting effects often making the photo unusable, but sometimes making it look kinda interesting.

In the photo below, it looks like this jet is landing gear up.  It most assuredly did not, and had a perfectly normal landing, and even took off afterwards: 

Kinda interesting effect there.