British Airways Boeing 777 at London Gatwick & Aviation Photos

Today I spent a hour at London Gatwick. Time was not on my side today but had to pop up and see the NEW livery Emirates A380 arrive. I have posted some photos below for you to see. The video is very short so these photos will be better to look at. I do enjoy taking a photograph and have done so for over 50 years.

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Spotting Location Gatwick Lowfield Heath Road

THE VIDEO IS 8 MINUTES LONG

Have you ever wondered where the best places are to go for spotting at Gatwick. I have decided to make a series of the locations that I use to spot and take pictures. 

Purple parking feature in the video but we have not been asked or have received no payment from them. 

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THE MAP

THIS MAP WILL ENLARGE WHEN YOU CLICK ON IT

SOME PHOTOS TAKEN FROM HERE BY MYSELF

These are all taken with a camera, which is a Canon 5D MKIII.

The Lens I use is a Sigma 150 to 600mm

Average zoom is 300mm

I have sold picture like this many times.

Lovely Livery "AZERBAIJANI"

China Eastern taking off towards us on 26L

You can get a lovley patchwork of liveries here 

Early morning grey start. 

Was worth it to capture this aircraft

Thank you for reading this.

Malcolm 

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SPOTTING AT LONDON GATWICK "YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO GO"

 

Over the next few months I am going to share with you the places I go spotting. I been coming up to the airport since the 1960's. I started going up on my own in 1973 once I had passed my cycling proficient at the age of 15. There was a group of us and we all fly up there on our bikes. 

There are lots of place to go which are on the landside of the airport. They are public paces and not infringing on private or airport land.

I am very well known to the police all be it a lot of my old airport security and police friends have retired. Some of the new ones do talk to me and are never rude or proactive to move you on. The last guy was also a spotter but worked inside the airport normally.   

This is Prestwood lane I tell you more on a future post. There lost of wild life around here as well. So when there no planes there are plenty of birds, foxes, and farm animals to take photos of.  

This kind of photo is good with a camera lenes of 300m to 600m. It takes over 15 minutes to walk here from the nearest parking spot. 

Go around are great for me but not the passenger. Gatwick is well know for many go arounds. They fly over my house as well. Not good early in the morning as the noise is very loud, who needs an alarm.

I do love going up to Gatwick when there a special plane landing. Being three miles away it is very easy for me. This Qantas was early doors and I was up at 5:30am. It arrived at around 7:10am and did a go around first.

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AIRLINE ADVERTISING FROM THE OLD DAYS

 AIRLINE ADVERTISING FROM THE OLD DAYS

This blog covers almost all subject to do with aviation old and new. Advertising is one thing I decided to keep as the years went by. This advert is of TWA and around the1980's. 

AIRLINES EARLY HISTORY

TWA's corporate history dates from July 16, 1930, and the forced merger of Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), Western Air Express (WAE), Maddux Air Lines, Standard, and Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corporation (PAIC) to form Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA) on 1 Oct.

They then became TWA which we all know stands for Trans World Airways (or Try Walking Across)

This picture above is of a TWA 747 I took at Gatwick, hopefully offering the service as advertised above. I love the old days and if you do please comment below. 

COURTESY OF THE INTERNET PLANE DATABASE
"LEE GRANT STARRED" SHE BE 99 IN 2024

I watch Columbo and there an ending scene of two TWA Boeing 747 in the globe livery. Ransom for a Dead Man 1971. But that is a story for another day.

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LONDON GATWICK QANTAS A380 LANDS EARLY .

What a wake up call for a Monday 530am. I have not got up that early since retiring. It was like work all over again and indeed it was work. It would have been so easy to say stay in bed, I leave it and not go up to Gatwick, but so glad I did. It was raining and cold and a long walk to the spot where I wanted to be.

I saw SDTV walking past and will no doubt catch the take off later.  They are live today at Gatwick and you can see them here https://www.youtube.com/@SDTVLiveAviation . I will upload a short video later on YouTube, but for the best video watch SDTV. 

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