hey all
(I’m gonna combine a mini trip report and airshow photos here)
myself, Sam and Adam arrived back home this morning having been to the Paris Le Bourget airshow 2007 yesterday. The day began at 5 am, in time for the check in for bmibaby flight WW5251 to Paris CDG from East Midlands.
The flight left promptly as scheduled; we were onboard 737-500 G-BVZH, and the weather wasn’t bad enroute:
I wanted to see the cockpit so waited until I was the last passenger onboard to leave once at CDG, and approached the cabin manager. She was great and introduced me to Simon, the co-pilot. I chatted for a couple of minutes with him and managed to get a shot of the (tiny) cockpit:
When we arrived at CDG, finding our way around the airport train station was a little difficult, but we managed eventually get the tickets we needed for the Le Bourget train.
The airshow was pretty good and the weather was changeable, raining heavily one minute; bright, warm sunshine the next. Still, managed to get a collection of shots:
NWA CRJ
taken from inside engine no.4
Jet Airways 777-300
taken with my new Polarising filter, made for an interesting shot
By: Global express - 25th June 2007 at 21:43
Super shot of the new Falcon attacking the sky!
By: PMN - 24th June 2007 at 23:35
Awesome! The shot of you in the engine is just superb. I really should get my backside in gear and get to a major airshow somewhere sometime!
You sure there won’t be any more? 🙂
Paul
By: adamdowley - 24th June 2007 at 23:08
thanks for the comments guys!
Here are a few more:
spot the Eifel Tower
photo of me in the ex-Air France 747-1/200 engine taken by ‘AK’, hehe –
easyjet engine on way back –
I find that I at airshow events like this, I prefer the ground displays becuase they are easier to photograph, hence the majority of these shots are of ground displays. 🙂
I think that’ll be all folks! 🙂
By: Rickt - 24th June 2007 at 22:34
Great report and photos…
One thing i noticed… The pilots moblie phones in the cockpit….
RickT
By: adamdowley - 24th June 2007 at 22:01
Some great pictures there mate! Btw what aircraft is this? Would it be a B777 by any chance? and what livery?
Adam
hey Adam, its the T7-300ER of Jet Airways, in their new livery. 🙂
By: A Spalding - 24th June 2007 at 21:36
taken with my new Polarising filter, made for an interesting shot
Some great pictures there mate! Btw what aircraft is this? Would it be a B777 by any chance? and what livery?
Adam
By: adamdowley - 24th June 2007 at 21:09
thanks for the comments guys!:)
By: B77W - 24th June 2007 at 20:19
Super
Smashing
Great
Fab!
By: PMN - 24th June 2007 at 19:46
Excellent shots, Adam. Glad you had a good time!
Just one thing… You didn’t actually stay out in the rain… Did you? Surely not? In the wet? You’d never catch me doing that!
(The other day at MAN aside). 🙂
I really love the close up of the A380 APU exhaust. I’m not sure why, I guess it’s just an interesting angle not shown in many aviation shots. All in all, an excellent selection. 🙂
Paul
By: adamdowley - 24th June 2007 at 18:22
Very nice shots Adam!! Just wondering if that Northwest tail is a CRJ-900?
It is indeed a CRJ-900 🙂
By: BFS - 24th June 2007 at 18:18
Very nice shots Adam!! Just wondering if that Northwest tail is a CRJ-900?
By: T5 - 24th June 2007 at 17:59
Great shots!
I passed on the Paris Air Show this time around. I went along to the last one with a few members of the forum, but it wasn’t half as good as I had expected.
By: gatwickjosh - 24th June 2007 at 15:49
Wow great shots.
Allways next year i suppose:rolleyes:
Josh
By: Mark L - 24th June 2007 at 14:28
Great stuff Adam! You really coped well with the constraints of an airshow and got some nicely formed close ups.
Not an easy task to pull off!
By: adamdowley - 24th June 2007 at 14:12
John Travoltas 707!
close up shots of the A380:
APU exhaust
After the airshow, it was back to CDG, this time to catch an Easyjet flight to Luton. The aircraft arrived 25 minutes late, and was a 737-700. I managed to snap a few shots during the night flight, and I will get those on some time soon. Once we had got to Luton, we were unable to get back home until 9am the following morning on the first train out of the town. So, we camped in Arrivals and departures all night. In fact, we spent more time in Luton airport than we did anywhere else that day! The seats are incredibly uncomfortable, so getting any sleep was difficult. We eventually got back home at about 11:30 this morning.
All in all, a super day!
thanks 🙂
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