Earlier this year I was photographing the new Rosenbauer Panther ARFF units at LAX. It was just after lunch and I was in front of ARFF 80, the airport fire station midway between parallel runways. Three Airbus 380 planes crossed Taxiway Romeo from 6R-24L heading to the International Terminal.
When you like big toys like I do, photographing big fire trucks is great but when a giant airplane comes by … well that’s just a bonus. The firefighters told me that five A380s come in around that time every day.
First was a British Airways flight.
![British Airways Airbus A380 at LAX British Airways Airbus A380 at LAX](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/160617_LAX-1326A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
Then planes from Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa passed by as I had an ARFF in position.
![Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 LAX ARFF 1 with a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/LAFD_ARFF-1-1318A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
![Lufthansa Airbus A380 and Rosenbauer Panther ARFF LAX ARFF 4 with an Airbus A380](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/LAFD_ARFF-4-1376A.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1)
It would have been incredible if the arriving A380s from Emirates, Air France, and Korean Air would have come by as well.