What a day that was! Owing to part time work and my demanding degree over the past 3 years, getting up to Heathrow has been impossible, but with my job and degree now over, I was able to take a trip up there today to meet Andy (better known as A330Crazy) and one of his friends. The day was looking a bit gloomy to start and BBC did forecast light rain all day, but this wasn’t going to stop us getting up there. As it was, the weather was perfect all day with some cloud around in the early afternoon. The sun shone brightly between about 11:30am and 6:00pm, when we called it a day. And the sun and temperatures of up to 33C meant that we’d be getting a nice sun tan whilst watching the interesting selection of aircraft pass by!
I took about 150 photos, but as you can expect with Heathrow, movements are dominated by British Airways and bmi, so I’m going to keep photos of these particular airlines to minimum. There are 38 photos below for you to enjoy, but bear in mind that unlike a lot of you, I don’t have access to decent camera equipment just yet, so the quality isn’t 100% 🙂
British Airways 767-300 flying over a billboard on approach to 27R
An Asiana 747-400 descending onto 27R
Air Algerie 737-800… with winglets!
An Air Canada A330-300 looking quite nice in the new colour scheme
Seeing an American Airlines 777-200 at Heathrow isn’t uncommon!
A closeup look at a British Airways A319 nose
In 6 hours, we saw this bmi Star Alliance A321 only once
A bmi A319 after a “nose job”
EVA Air MD-11 Freighter. Excuse the lamp post!
Concorde has been moved from alongside runway 5/23 to outside the bmi hangar
By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 25th June 2006 at 15:54
Great pics mate! Brilliant selection of airlines and aircraft types!
By: Manston Airport - 25th June 2006 at 15:43
Nice pictures there off are main UK airport.
James
By: LGKR - 25th June 2006 at 14:54
love the Croatia A320!!
By: heslop01 - 25th June 2006 at 11:36
wow! these are all brilliant mate well done
By: T5 - 25th June 2006 at 11:33
A nice selection there. 🙂
What was your vantage point for the 27R landing shots?
Thanks 🙂
We stood by the work sheds by the British Airways hangars and the police were really co-operative, too. It’s a really secure airport (hardly a surprise) and they drove past every 2 or 3 minutes, but didn’t seem to mind the large group of people that had gathered to watch what was going on.
By: lba rlz - 25th June 2006 at 10:34
BA, BMI, DHL, Emirates, Saudi and the list goes on
By: G-CDFF - 25th June 2006 at 09:50
Excellent shots! 😀
By: Grey Area - 25th June 2006 at 09:17
A nice selection there. 🙂
What was your vantage point for the 27R landing shots?
By: RingwaySam - 25th June 2006 at 04:24
Fantastic shots 😀
By: 007peter - 24th June 2006 at 22:22
nice shots there mickael
regards
peter
By: tomfellows - 24th June 2006 at 22:17
Smashing shots Michael – the weather really was superb down south today:)
By: BHXlocal - 24th June 2006 at 22:12
Wow wow wow! Thats all I can say 😀
Super shots there, really must head down there sometime…
By: jonezi06 - 24th June 2006 at 22:11
Great photos mate, really enjoyed looking threw them
BMI A319 got to be fav for me 😀
Danny
By: T5 - 24th June 2006 at 22:02
And last, but not least…
Saudi Arabian 777-200
Singapore Airlines 747-400 arriving from Changi
Turkmenistan 757-200 boasting a bland colour scheme
United Airlines 777 – another common sight at Heathrow
I love the Uzbekistan colour scheme, more so on the 767 than this 757, arriving from Tashkent.
G-VFIT – an A340-600 delivered to Virgin Atlantic only last month!
The Virgin A340-300s are starting to look a bit old
And finally, a Yemenia A330-200 arrives on 27R
Any comments welcome 🙂
By: T5 - 24th June 2006 at 22:02
and more…
Kuwait Airways Airbus A300…
…arrived a few hours before this Kuwait Airways Airbus A340-300
Lufthansa 737-300. We didn’t see any football-nosed aircraft today!
LOT Polish Airlines 737-300 arriving on 27R
Air Memphis (registered in Egypt, but never heard of them) arriving on 27L
Malaysia Airlines 747-400 arrives at Heathrow
Pakistan International 747-300 arrives. I saw this depart a few hours later on my way home
Qantas Airways – the first of two – landing on 27L
My favourite shot of the day – a Qatari A330-300
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) 737-800 arriving on 27R
By: T5 - 24th June 2006 at 22:01
Some more…
Croatia Airlines Airbus A320
A relatively new addition to the Czech Airlines fleet – the A320-200
Cyprus Airways operates both the A320 and the A330 into Heathrow
A Belgian-registered DHL A300 arrives at Heathrow. A second followed later
Egypt Air Airbus A330-200
Emirates Boeing 777-300
Japan Air Lines (JAL) 777-200 arriving on 27R
Royal Jordanian Cargo Airbus A310
Kenya Airways 777-200 in a newer, tackier scheme
Korean Air 747-400
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