July 12, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Today at around 13:20 the Airbus A380 did a flypast at Manchester Airport, came in for a standard approach and pretended to do a go around with gears going up did a nice low fly-past and a salute to Concorde then off to Liverpool. I have to say, that is one amazing aircraft with some amazing handling.







By: steve rowell - 14th July 2008 at 07:30
She’s indeed a Majestic looking aircraft
By: Scouse - 12th July 2008 at 22:37
Gotcha, though I had to download a demo program, hence the watermark. The view from the Liverpool threshold on full wide angle from a video WMV file.
By: Scouse - 12th July 2008 at 15:13
First time I’ve ever had a airborne plane bust out of the frame even with the zoom at maximum (28mm) wide angle!
Decisions decisions…should I use the Fuji in still or movie mode? In the end I went for movie – it’s surprisingly good quality, easily as good as Super-8mm film (remember that?) and had no regrets. If I can work out how to lift stills from WMP I’ll post a shot from Liverpool.
By: MattGarner - 12th July 2008 at 15:00
I went to Sainsbury’s car park @ Cheadle to watch her, funny thing was the 747 of Air China before the 380 must people thought that was it Also was a tad smaller than I thought it would be but incredibly quiet.
Nice pics by the way
Haha Yeah so true, because we knew the last plane took off.. So we was just waiting then in a dark cloud we could see a 4 engine plane, people were like OMG ITS HERE but over the radio Air China was mentioned. 😛
By: wilag - 12th July 2008 at 14:57
I went to Sainsbury’s car park @ Cheadle to watch her, funny thing was the 747 of Air China before the 380 must people thought that was it Also was a tad smaller than I thought it would be but incredibly quiet.
Nice pics by the way
By: Future Pilot - 12th July 2008 at 14:46
Nice selection there Matt, I’ve just come back from washing the car when I parked outside and it flew over my street. All the fun from the comfort of home :D.
By: green320 - 12th July 2008 at 14:46
It is an incredible machine, I watched the display at the Wirral Show and it was superb. Great shots too!