Good afternoon, as promised here are the photos of the 19th of august at London Heathrow, weather this day was really good around 25 degrees Celsius. Landing runway starting at 27R and later became 09L and ending on 27L.
1. Starting in the early morning at 27L, in the background you can see traffic coming in from the Atlantic Ocean.
2. The one year old ‘’Springbok’’.
3. Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600 on downwind leg.
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5. Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER on finals runway 27R.
6. Air Canada in Star Alliance scheme.
7. Runway changed to 09L.
8. The tail of this BMI Airbus A330-200 showing some wear.
9. A local bus, but I liked the light.
10. Another Star Alliance logo jet, this time a Croatia Airlines Airbus A319.
11. Lovely blue on this United triple.
12. Transaero’s 20 year old Boeing 767-300ER.
13. Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300ER.
14. One of the 3 Emirates Airbus A380.
15. Delta’s Boeing 767-400 breast cancer logo jet.
By: MSR777 - 30th August 2012 at 09:07
Thanks Maikel. I love my Egyptairs!:)
By: Maikel - 29th August 2012 at 08:03
If the wind is less then 5 knots on ground level they will always use the 27’s. The wind this day were comming from the south with 4 knots, so that’s a crosswind but nothing to worry about. Later on pilots of final approach complained that the wind from 1000ft to 300ft was a 10 knot tail wind. So I think that’s why they changed to the 09’s and later on when the wind settled they took over the 27’s again. Thanks for the replies!
By: EGTC - 29th August 2012 at 00:49
When I lived near Heathrow for 16yrs it was quite common to see them change multiple times, especially if the wind was either really light and picked up, or if the wind direction was changing in runway favour.
By: Culpano - 28th August 2012 at 22:57
Another excellent set Maikel. How odd that Heathrow changed runways so much. I’ve never heard it change from 27s to 09 to 27s again. So you saw the Etihad F1 scheme twice 😮 Love the bonus night shots especially with the Saudi 777 in the background !
By: EGTC - 28th August 2012 at 22:38
I don’t know. I thought B734 maintenance was done at Gatwick.
By: Maikel - 28th August 2012 at 20:25
I really have no clue, maintenance maybe? It’s also not showing on: http://casperflights.com/ very strange.
By: EGTC - 28th August 2012 at 20:18
Fantastic 🙂
Any idea why the BA B737-400 was in at LHR?
By: Maikel - 28th August 2012 at 16:27
16. Landing runway again changed, first 27R again and about 45 minutes later 27L.
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18. During the switch from 27R to 27L we caught a Biman Bangladesh Boeing 777-300ER.
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20 Always a great sight to see a China Southern in nice sun light. A regular visitor at Amsterdam, here it’s a 3 weekly visitor. From the end of October China Southern is stepping up its “The Canton Route” plan, with a service increase from 3 weekly to daily. In the future this will certainly be a A380 destination for them.
21. I couldn’t resist….
22. A JAL Boeing 777-300ER on finals runway 27L.
23. Korean Air HL8217 Boeing 777-300ER.
24. Sun was going down again in the west, lighting op the fan blades of the RR Trent 895.
25. Etihad Airways A6-EHJ Airbus A340-642 in Formula 1 scheme.
26. We also tried some night spotting at the fence but we couldn’t find a good spot. Next time we will check in a stepladder at the odd size desk (just kidding).
27. I had to blink twice but this really is British Airways Boeing 737-436, G-DOCO at LHR.
Thanks again for watching and I’m working on the photos of the 20th, stay tuned. And @MSR777 that promised triple is a work in progress;)
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August 28, 2012 at 4:26 pm