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Unidentified trail

Taken over FRA, heading east to west, possibly out of LHR or AMS on 7th May, anyone any ideas?

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By: Manston Airport - 22nd May 2006 at 21:43

It’s deffinatly Travel City i’d say. Look under the left wing, you can see the huge reg which TF-AME has. I’d also go with Vrocking’s suggestion of it going to Eygpt.

You can also tell by looking at the pictures that it is a Travel City Direct. 😎

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By: Robert Pittuck - 22nd May 2006 at 19:45

It’s definitely TCD, a search on Airliners.net shows a 747 of theirs at Malta, so its not too unusual to see one over western europe, dunno if they are used for Egypt though, the TCD website is guff!!

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By: RingwaySam - 22nd May 2006 at 18:32

It’s deffinatly Travel City i’d say. Look under the left wing, you can see the huge reg which TF-AME has. I’d also go with Vrocking’s suggestion of it going to Eygpt.

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By: Pte1643 - 22nd May 2006 at 17:26

Manston and America is knowhere near FRA 😉

But then an “East to West” flight over FRA wouldn’t have come from AMS or LHR either :confused: , as Robert stated in his original post.

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By: Manston Airport - 22nd May 2006 at 01:45

Manston and America is knowhere near FRA 😉

Robert, Could you upload it to imageshack or something…

Or it could be its flight out off MSE 😉 😀

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By: RingwaySam - 21st May 2006 at 23:24

Hi all
On May 7 a Travel City Direct Boeing 747 came into Manston from americamight be it?

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Manston and America is knowhere near FRA 😉

Robert, Could you upload it to imageshack or something…

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By: Manston Airport - 21st May 2006 at 19:13

Hi all
On May 7 a Travel City Direct Boeing 747 came into Manston from americamight be it?

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By: vrocking - 21st May 2006 at 16:01

Definitely looks like TF-AME to me. TCD sometimes do flights to Hurghada, Egypt under a EUK or XLA flight code.

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By: bmi-star - 21st May 2006 at 14:27

That what was in my mind

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1010303/L/

Well you see why i thought it was a NWC!

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By: bmi-star - 21st May 2006 at 14:25

Not all the time Will….as reading an old AW edition funily enought last night, and NW’s Japan ops was in it. Showed their 74F’s in a white scheme

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By: murph - 21st May 2006 at 14:07

NWA cargo’s are in bare metal finish?

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By: bmi-star - 21st May 2006 at 13:12

Or a NWA Cargo? They operate with a white fuselage don’t they!

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By: Robert Pittuck - 21st May 2006 at 13:05

TCD it is then!!! ta for the replies

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By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 21st May 2006 at 13:02

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=484700 🙂

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By: jonezi06 - 21st May 2006 at 12:54

[QUOTE]I dunno, I’m pretty sure it’s this one:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5725506
Looks exactly the same to me?[QUOTE]

It hasnt got red engines
But i would say it is a travelcitydirect.com plane
have they got any with white engines?

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By: Ren Frew - 21st May 2006 at 12:52

I dunno, I’m pretty sure it’s this one:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5725506
Looks exactly the same to me?

I think so too ? If you look on A.net there are shots of TCD jumbos operating out of European airports too.

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By: Robert Pittuck - 21st May 2006 at 12:49

Travel City Direct/ Excel B747?

Had good look, maybe it is TCD, they had one in at MAN on the 7th, I thought they only did flights over to Florida, maybe not!!

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By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 21st May 2006 at 12:48

I dunno, I’m pretty sure it’s this one:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5725506
Looks exactly the same to me?

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By: Robert Pittuck - 21st May 2006 at 12:45

Northwest 747?

Flying East to west over Germany would rule out Northwest, I’ve had a look at AMS pics but no 747’s look like this one, i thought about Kalitta but it doesnt look right, also, theres no winglets, so its quite old. 😮

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By: Robert Pittuck - 21st May 2006 at 12:42

Travel City Direct/ Excel B747?

Tail pattern seems too “messy” for TCD, ta anyway!

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