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A US Airways Boeing 767 lands at sunset on runway 18L. The flash of white light from the right wing is an anti-collision strobe light, mounted next to the green navigation light. A lucky photo, since strobes are of short duration. Arriving from Philadelphia, this plane will be refueled, cleaned and re-provisioned for the 10 hour flight from Charlotte, North Carolina USA to Rio de Janeiro/Galeão-Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport (IATA: GIG, ICAO: SBGL) better known by its original name - Galeão International Airport. Say all that in one breath. It is the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The flight leaves Charlotte daily at 22:30. For simplicity, US Airways employees refer to it as the "GIG flight," "GIG" rhyming with "big."