Cold Wet Sunshine ? – Yep been to Manchester again !

Great shots Graham! Very nice indeed! The KLM 737 shot is a beauty. 🙂

Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Hello chaps…….

Thankyou for your kind comments…..

R.E. PIA 747, I have opened a new thread to discuss this on as not to get confused. (PIA 747 Landing)….

EAL King, Soccer AM , Ren, Oasis ???? Infact the “sun sheee ine” thing came from a culmination from both of the aformentioned pointers. As I drove home from Manchester whilst listning to the football on the radio all I could think of Messers Liam and Noel grinning as the blue half (quite amusingly!) stuffed the red half in the sun shee ine !! So yes ….. abit of both !

G.

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
On a similar note, are there any easy ways to tell a difference between a 741 and a 742? The joke I’ve heard is that if it has a brown tail (UPS) then it’s a 741. 🙂

Not that I know of. If it has 3 upper deck windows, it’s definitely a -100. However, later versions of the -100 had the 10 upper deck windows of the -200. UPS has -100’s and -200’s so I don’t know about that joke.

That guy needs to buy a dictionary and a few grammar lessons. 🙂

This was posted on Plane-mad.com by someone called Sampol it says:
‘I whent to the airport today and took some pictures but not that many because
for about 30 mins no planes landed at manchester so me and my mate was waiting until PIA 747 (PH-BAT) looked like it had alot of turbolence so we was watching it come in to land.
It landed and we thought it was just taking it’s time to get off the runway
until SN BRUSSELS (146) made a go around,then a KLM(737) so we whent and looked and it had about 5 fire engines
behind it so we got a couple of pictures and we found out off this man that it landed to far down the runway
and had to brake immediately but it broke that much the brakes set on fire,
it was escorted to the gate were they
sorted it out for the next flight home.I whent to the airport today and took some pictures but not that many because
for about 30 mins no planes landed at manchester so me and my mate was waiting until PIA 747 (PH-BAT) looked like it had alot of turbolence so we was watching it come in to land.
It landed and we thought it was just taking it’s time to get off the runway
until SN BRUSSELS (146) made a go around,then a KLM(737) so we whent and looked and it had about 5 fire engines
behind it so we got a couple of pictures and we found out off this man that it landed to far down the runway
and had to brake immediately but it broke that much the brakes set on fire,
it was escorted to the gate were they
sorted it out for the next flight home.

Brilliant Graham.
BTW , do you know why this PIA 747 deserved a such red escort?
Any problem on board regardless the curry ?

Clear as mud, thanks. 😉

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
I’ve seen a number of pictures of similar cargo aircraft that are also referred to as 744. The passenger version has the extended upperdeck but this cargo version does not. Are these truly 744’s or converted 741/742’s?

On a similar note, are there any easy ways to tell a difference between a 741 and a 742? The joke I’ve heard is that if it has a brown tail (UPS) then it’s a 741. 🙂

The B744 cargo plane does have the shorter upper deck, the way you can tell if it’s a 400 and not a 100/200 is the winglets and no windows along the body as they are built to be a dedicated freighter. Saying this, Cathay Pacific are going to be the launch customer for the B744 pax to freighter conversion, so this means it will have a stretched upper deck. CONFUSING

Hope this helps
😀

Nice pics, but it certainly looks cold and miserable

great pics there – thanks for sharing!

btw the last B741 i went on (18 months ago) had a green tail! :p

Originally posted by grahamskipton
China Airlines Cargo 747-400

I’ve seen a number of pictures of similar cargo aircraft that are also referred to as 744. The passenger version has the extended upperdeck but this cargo version does not. Are these truly 744’s or converted 741/742’s?

On a similar note, are there any easy ways to tell a difference between a 741 and a 742? The joke I’ve heard is that if it has a brown tail (UPS) then it’s a 741. 🙂

Great pictures Graham, particularly like the Astraeus as it’s the aircraft I flew to Egypt on a couple of years back! 😀

Originally posted by EAL_KING
brill pics graham and do you watch soccer am on a saturday morning by any chance?? :p 😀

Or listen to Oasis records ? 😀 great pics fella !

Nice shots Graham.Cheers for posting them.

Originally posted by grahamskipton
Last one……. in the sunsh sh sh sh eee ine !!!

brill pics graham and do you watch soccer am on a saturday morning by any chance?? :p 😀

Lovely photos 🙂

Keep up the good work!

Henry

Great shots 🙂 🙂 🙂

Great pic’s from a Great Airport, well gone Graham

Great Pics like the KLM one
keep up the good work 🙂

Great pics, love the China Airlines Cargo 747-400