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Saturday 11 May 2024
LONDON GATWICK MAY 10TH 2024
Friday 10 May 2024
AZERBAIJAN 787 AT GATWICK TODAY : One photo landing with a nice vapour trail X behind and two taking off.
Was nice to see but had to dash from one end of the runway to the other. I normally like to get the airport in the photo but time was not on my side today.
Enjoy what I did get and lots more photos to come from todays trip.
Malcolm at Airspotters.com
Tuesday 7 May 2024
ST JUST CORNWALL. "LANDS END AIRPORT" 1974
ST JUST CORNWALL. "LANDS END AIRPORT" 1974 : My dad took me here from Penzance in hope to see some aircraft. There was one bus out and one bus back per day. We arrived and only saw this Rapide. The owner signed the back of this postcard as well. There was no coffee shop so we were stuck for four hours. Lucky for us one of the airport workers was just going home to Penzance. He gave us a lift in a MKIII Cortina. I do remember these days very well. It was quiet wet time we left, so glad to get back. I think we had a caravan in Marazion. Airspotters.com
NEW Herpa Model now listed and ready for your pre-order
NEW Herpa Model now listed and ready for your pre-order at http://Airspotters.com .
These models take a few minutes to put together and can be ordered at Airspotters.com and they are due in August 2024.
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LOOK BACK AT PLANE SPOTTING AND HOW IT USED TO BE AT HEATHROW
I was old enough to actually see the Pan Am 747-100 at Heathrow many times. Pan Am and TWA did use a lot of 707’s but eventually got the 747 and 747SP on the routes. This was because it was the 1970’s and like today, airlines are waiting on the newer aircraft to be built. The date for this photo was August 1977, taken on my Kodak Box Brownie. I was 18 years old. I took the 727 bus up from Crawley. Had to get out at epsom as I was travel sick and then catch the next one. No M25 in those days up through Tadworth and Epsom. Just 12 photos per reel of film I had. If I was lucky my dad would give me money to buy another reel in the shop on top of the Queens building spectators. So a max of 24 photos per visit and then a long wait to see if they developed ok. Could be a few weeks as money to pay for that had to be earned in Sainsbury where I worked. I was on about £28 a week then full time. These days take as many as you like and then download them when you get home. No flight radar so you had to spot the aircraft and read the registration manually. Missed a lot of aircraft back then. Used to try and get the registration as the bus went past the hangers by hatton cross. Not easy, you had one chance in a few seconds. Only ever remember one bus driver slowed and stopped. He must have been a plane spotter himself.
Sunday 28 April 2024
JC Wings Thomson Holidays / Britannia Airways Boeing 767-200ER G-BRIG Scale 1/200 XX2656
Another stunning model form JC Wings in a scale of 1/200
The Thomson Holidays / Britannia Airways Boeing 767-200ER G-BRIG was a wide-body jet airliner that was part of Britannia Airways fleet.
Britannia Airways operated a mixed fleet of Boeing 737 and Boeing 767 aircraft. The 767-200ERs were used for long-haul routes, including flights to Australia [AIRliners.net forum, Britannia/Thomsonfly's Oldest 767-200...].
Thomson Holidays eventually merged with Britannia Airways in 2005 to form Thomsonfly. The airline itself was later rebranded as TUI Airways in 2017.
Saturday 27 April 2024
BOEING 727 TIME : These photos were sent to us by one of our customers' and followers. They were all taken back in the day and lovely to see these. They were not too big so could not enlarge to much. I have more to do and will upload over the next week. Meantime enjoy these treasured photos. Malcolm of Airspotters.com
London Heathrow Virtual Fly Around Drone "No planes visible"
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