November 17, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Hello everyone…sorry I haven’t been on for a while, but I have just got back from a week in Orlando, Florida. I was on a university trip, and basically went to MCO, SFB and ORL to have a look around, and get lectures from loads of the staff and airlines (namely Southwest!). Would of met Sir Freddie Laker on one of the days I was at MCO, however, his house was badly damaged by Hurricane Wilma, so he couldn’t make it – he did send our group an e-mail though, which was nice.
Got loads of great photos, even one of a TCD 747-300 at SFB – I was actually allowed onto the apron to take the photo as it came onto its gate 😮 😀 😎 ! Will post all my pics as soon as I have recovered – not had any sleep for almost 24 hours (even on flight, due to on-off turbulence!).
In case any of you really want to know, I flew with BA (G-VIIR both ways!) from LGW!
By: wysiwyg - 18th November 2005 at 15:37
He’s had a run of 3-day trips with one day off in between so it could have been.
By: cloud_9 - 18th November 2005 at 15:00
I was fairly sure it wouldn’t have been him on the inbound as he has already been to Harare and back since.
Well…I arrived at 07:30ish yesterday, so I very much dought it…what do you think to photos though?
By: wysiwyg - 18th November 2005 at 14:56
I was fairly sure it wouldn’t have been him on the inbound as he has already been to Harare and back since.
By: cloud_9 - 18th November 2005 at 14:49
Just curious…did you get the Captains name on your BA flights? My brother is now a BA 777 skipper and has just recently been in Orlando.
I can’t remember the name of the captain on the way there…but for the way back his first name was Brian, can’t remember his surname…sorry!
By: wysiwyg - 18th November 2005 at 14:39
Just curious…did you get the Captains name on your BA flights? My brother is now a BA 777 skipper and has just recently been in Orlando.
By: cloud_9 - 18th November 2005 at 11:36
Well…here they are, what do you think. Please be nice, as these are my first photos I have ever taken of aircraft/airports! If you want to see more, you will have to e-mail me, as most of the other ones are too large to upload, unless someone can tell me how I can compress them…?
Regards,
Jonathan Davies
(a.k.a cloud_9)