Northwest 747 at Gatwick this morning 20/10

I was at LGW yesterday with a friend of mine. I will post my pictures as soon as they are uploaded to photobucket!

Blooming loud ******s. Rotated soo late!

Dan, was that you over at the tree?

All the best
Josh

Thanks very much! Knew I shouldn’t have trusted Huw and his dodgy information!

Only tried to use logic!;)

Cheers, Huw:D

And if anyone wanted to know:

NWA9968 when he was on London 127.1 only requested FL300

whereas NWA9969 requested FL320

Lovely to see BOTH aircraft–especially the second departure which was vectored right over our house(closely followed by a VS 43 which was very late!)
certainly made my day–have been working late tonight to make up for all my distractions when i should heve been working!
Hope everyone else who saw them enjoyed them!
Lovely pic G-BNLL!

Thanks very much! Knew I shouldn’t have trusted Huw and his dodgy information!

624US was the San Diego (San Diego Chargers) Flight 9968
623US was the New Orleans (New Orleans Saints) Flight 9969

PS: Dan your camera is still set to british summertime;)

Cheers, Huw:)

So it is! :rolleyes:

that would be 13:00 and 14:30 for the departures then.

I know N623US was probably for San Diego, (we did discuss this!) but I need more evidence than just “it was lower”. The New orleans plane could have been carrying more people or had a slower take-off run for all we know.

N624US in the new scheme departed shortly after 14:00.
N623US in the old scheme departed shortly after 15:30.

Can anyone confirm which one was carrying which team, for the caption on JP please?

I would say that N634US was carrying the New Orleans Saints and N623US was carrying the San Diego Chargers. This is based on the fact that both would be flying to the teams home cities, N623US was a lower departure meaning it was probably heavier due to having more fuel on board as it has to go further. This may however be complete rubbish:o

PS: Dan your camera is still set to british summertime;)

Cheers, Huw:)

N624US in the new scheme departed shortly after 14:00.
N623US in the old scheme departed shortly after 15:30.

Can anyone confirm which one was carrying which team, for the caption on JP please?

Really nice to see the Northwest old colours still about. And ofcourse the sound of them engines 😉

NWA9969 LGW>MSY

Not sure of their route–Think out of LGW will be a LAM dep if a SAM i wont see only hear–gate open at this minute on the first one!

Seen it NWA9968 N624US 😀

looks like the 747s will depart at 11.30 and 13.00 today–taken from BAA site just now
Happy Spotting!!

The NWA 747s go back on Mon 27/10 one at 10.00 and one at 11.30 if anyone wants to see them!

Hey guys,

The game is this Sunday. Kick off is at 6pm UK time. My guess is that they won’t leave til the following morning.

Both teams have a bye week the following week so they won’t need to rush back.

Our clocks go back on Sunday but I don’t think they do in the US for another week, so the game is actually a 5pm kick-off. It’s live on BBC2 and SkySports

Hey guys,

The game is this Sunday. Kick off is at 6pm UK time. My guess is that they won’t leave til the following morning.

Both teams have a bye week the following week so they won’t need to rush back.

Nor mine–will have to do a google search!
MUst see BOTH go back!!

Planes is my interest, not sport!!:D

Newforest

I wish I had read your post as I went downstairs to tidy up and came back up to my office to hear NW contact ground!!!Noooooooo!!!
When is the match?
Want to see those 2 go back!definately!
CB

You only saw one?:D NW9968 will be landing about 9.00 a.m.

The first one carried the San Diego Chargers and the second will have the New Orleans Saints on board. The planes will remain until after the match.:)