18th September: LHR London Heathrow Airport.
Well it was a good day, and I hope a good time was had by the guys who attended.
I arrived at 11am, and met up with Michael(T5) at around 11:30. We then headed over to Mrytle Av. where we sat for around an hour and a half. Plane wise in that time there was a good variation.
At around 1:00pm we headed back over to Hatton Cross tube station for the arrival of Allen(Ren), who was unfortunately 20 mins late due to a delayed flight becuase of earlier congestion at LHR (fog).
Ren arrived at Hatton at about 1:20pm. We stood around for a while, in that Time Allen let me have a go on his camera… I took a snap of a BA 757.:D Thanks Allen! 🙂
Dave(Kurmitz280) arrived at Mrytle Av around 2ish. We stayed at Mrytle Av until 3pm, due to the runway change in the afternoon, to 27R.
We all headed up to where the planes cross the road at LHR, to carry on with our spotting. After about half an hour of being there, we all recieved a very welcome treat… G-BOAD(conocrde) being towed across the road into the airport from the BA maintenence hangers. Between us we got alot of shots… one on Michael’s shown in another thread.
Then directly after the concorde crossed, a BA 747 was brought across too! 🙂
Kev called me at about 4:30ish to ask hw it was going. Kev hope you werern’t to sad for not being able to attend. Im sure there will be another one soon. Thanks for the call though, and thinking of us all. 🙂
In all a good day. Thank you to the guys who attended, hope you had a good day too. I look forward to seeing the some more of your pics very soon. The ones posted so far are very good!!!
And now for the VERY! long list of what we saw between us:
D-ABES
YR-BGG
G-EUPU
F-OMEB
EI-CPG
G-BNWR
G-MIDR
SX-BJC — http://www.airliners.net/open.file/417692/M/
G-BNWT
S2-ACR
G-BVJD
G-BUSC
G-MEDG
TF-FIV
G-BPEC
G-EUPT
G-BXWF
G-EUPC
PH-KVI
I-BIXP
G-MIDS
G-BUSI
SE-DMG
D-AISE
G-EUUF
G-MIDL
G-EUPA
I-BIXL
A6-EMW
G-BUSJ
F-GFKK
G-BNWU
G-DOCV
G-MIDU — Allen’s Flight.:D
G-CIVF
G-YMMF
F-OGYU
N789UA
G-EUPW
G-EUOF
G-MIDW
D-AVRL
G-BPEI
G-MEDE
EI-CPD
G-CPEN
HA-LEX
YU-AND
HB-IJO
4X-AXH
G-MIDK
CS-TNK
G-EUOD
G-EUUH
G-EUPD
LN-RMJ
G-MEDF
G-EUPF
LN-ROB
G-BNWB
G-EUPH
G-DOCM
G-YMMG
G-CIVG
C-GSCA
LX-LGP
D-AIRW
G-JEAU
G-BUSE
N790AN
G-BYGD
G-BNWW
G-JEAX
G-BNWZ
SU-GAR
6Y-JMC
G-BYGC
D-ABEA
PH-BDK
D-CSIE
G-EUUM
EI-CVD
EI-CPH
G-EUOG
G-PZAZ
G-RAES
5B-DBC
OK-FGS
HB-IJU
D-AIPP
D-AIAS
G-MEDH
D-ACJA
G-BPED
G-MIDI
G-EUOA
G-TTOD
G-MIDY
G-MIDX
G-MIDV
9K-AOB
G-MIDP
G-MIDT
G-BPEO
G-MIDM
G-EUOI
EC-IIG
G-EUUK
PH-BDD
OE-LBR
G-ZAPM — Operating for BMi
G-EUPO
G-EUPN
G-BNLB
B-16109
AP-BFV
G-VSUN
G-MIDO
G-CPEL
F-GFKB
ZS-SAX
B-HUE
ZS-SAC
TC-JFG
G-VFOX — Allen and Dave’s fav I think? 😀
G-EUPL
JA8958
N757MA
C-GAGL
OY-KBF
I-BIXD
F-GFKI
PH-BDY
G-BOAD
G-BNLO
PH-KVI
HB-IJN
G-BNWY
G-BXWF
EC-HQG
B-HOZ
SP-LLB
G-BPEC
G-EUUD
OY-KBB
JA8079
G-EUPS
G-BUSC
G-MIDU
9V-SFI
HZ-AKH
G-EUPK
G-SEPB
D-AIAN
LN-ROU
G-EUPW
G-BUSB
EC-ILO
D-ABJE
C-GSCA
G-BNWD
JA8922
F-GFKZ
G-EUUP
I-DAWA
PH-BXD
G-MIDK
G-VLIP
G-BVJC
HL7417
A40-LH
CS-TJF
G-EUPZ
A6-LIW
OH-LZA
G-BPEI
D-AVRL
G-EUOE
G-MIDJ
G-BOAE
G-BNLM
G-EUUF
HB-IJJ
G-BNLB
G-EUUG
G-MIDF
D-AIRR
G-BYGA
G-BPEK
G-CPER
OY-KIL
G-YMME
G-EUPM
G-EUPT
G-EUPG
A40-KB
A7-ACC
G-EUPD
EC-HAA
F-GFKF
EC-HDT
CS-TNN
I-BIXL
G-BNWX
G-AWZK
G-DOCU
G-BNWC — Engineless!
ZS-SAU
A6-YAS
Told ya it was long! :D:D:D:D
By: Bhoy - 22nd September 2003 at 00:18
Originally posted by Ren Frew T1 is a bit of a dump and needs a good overhaul, some windows looking airside wouldn’t go amiss either, at the public side of the terminal.
Yeah, the bmi Lounge at Gate 4 is pretty dire view wise… you’d have been better going over to the BA lounge at Gate 5 across the hall to wait, it’s got nice big windows, and what’s more it looks right onto runway (I think) 09L…
However, if you think T1 is a bit of a dump, you’ve obviously never been to T2…
By: T5 - 21st September 2003 at 22:26
Eww.. what an awful second group photo, I feel so embarrassed!
It was indeed a great day and I look forward to the next meet with all three of you and more 😀
By: Mark L - 21st September 2003 at 22:13
What on earth were you sneering at A330! 😀
Ren, on the A320’s there is a plate on the panel to your right just after you board the plane, which has the reg, SELCAL, and aircraft type on. Very useful for when you can’t see anything at Heathrow!
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2003 at 21:39
Originally posted by A330Crazy
Great shots Allen. What plane did you fly back on?Are you gonna try Planepictures and Airliners.net? 🙂 I think you should.
Dunno what I flew back on I couldn’t see the reg thanks to the combination of airbridge and complete darkness, I know it was in the new colour scheme though. T1 is a bit of a dump and needs a good overhaul, some windows looking airside wouldn’t go amiss either, at the public side of the terminal.
As for A.net and Plane pictures… I’ve put a few things on PP already. I tried A.net once and the pic got rejected for not being the right J-PEG format or summat like that.
I’m not that fussed really, happy to put them on here for forum users to enjoy. 😀
By: kurmitz28 - 21st September 2003 at 21:29
I was hanging by time I got home! The trafic on M4 till Newbury was a nightmare. It was a good day I really enjoyed it, thanks Andrew, Mike and Allen!
By: A330Crazy - 21st September 2003 at 21:28
Great shots Allen. What plane did you fly back on?
Are you gonna try Planepictures and Airliners.net? 🙂 I think you should.
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2003 at 21:18
Here’s my plane, a BMI A320 (G-MIDU) just after I got off at T1. Nice Virgin 744 taking off…
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2003 at 21:16
It was a long day Dave, as you can see by this pic, you’re the only one still awake after hours of spotting… 😀
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2003 at 21:15
He then took this sneaky shot of a hostess who’d accidentally dropped something and tried to blame me for it ! 😀
Er… actually it was me who took the picture, you can tell as it’s all blurred cause I was shakin ! :rolleyes:
By: kurmitz28 - 21st September 2003 at 21:13
Originally posted by Ren Frew
Here’s the pic A330 Crazy took on my camera as we met at Hatton Cross station.
Best one of the lot :p
I was almost smiling in that pic!
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2003 at 21:08
Here’s the pic A330 Crazy took on my camera as we met at Hatton Cross station.
By: Ren Frew - 21st September 2003 at 21:06
Here’s a shot showing Kurmitz, T5 and A330 Crazy, aka Dave, Michael and Andrew near the old Trident…
By: Mark L - 21st September 2003 at 19:47
Concorde flys every day now, and whatever day you go there will always be something even more out of the ordinary than normal.
By: wannabe pilot - 21st September 2003 at 13:16
A good report there, seems like you saw quite a nice bunch of aircraft there. I read somewhere that Concorde does not fly on Saturdays. Is this true? As I was hoping to get up there this coming Saturday but if that is the case, I will have to make it Sunday. Is Sunday quieter than the other days?
By: kurmitz28 - 21st September 2003 at 12:15
I was lucky and I could go, my misses was flying from Frankfurt to Bahrain, via Paris then Muscat!!
By: Selsport69 - 21st September 2003 at 12:03
Now now kurmitz28 thats not you having a dig at my great team is it?:D Glad you all had fun just wished I could have been there. Although I was on holiday and never went anywhere it wouldnt have went down well with her indoors.:p
By: Ren Frew - 20th September 2003 at 22:32
Originally posted by kurmitz28
Next time we meet, we should make sure a pub aint too far away.
Now you’re talking, I’m off to bed now 😀
By: kurmitz28 - 20th September 2003 at 22:24
At last…. writen proof that you need to get paid to watch Rangers!!
Some nice pics from your ‘point and shot’ camera. One day i may post some!
Next time we meet, we should make sure a pub aint too far away.
By: Ren Frew - 20th September 2003 at 22:14
If you’d spent the entire day filming “highland hockey” aka shinty, then you wouldn’t even make it to the keyboard ya big woose ! 😀
Besides I’ve just discovered I need to get up early tomorrow and go film the Rangers game. I need all the recovery I can get ! 😎 :rolleyes: 😉 :p
By: kurmitz28 - 20th September 2003 at 22:08
Originally posted by Ren Frew
Yes, it’s ten to ten on Saturday and I’ve just driven back from working in Inverness. I’ll post more of mine after a lie down. 😀
Pull your finger out you light weight!!
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