Some pic's from LBA Friday 23rd December

GARY!!!!

Yeah, you told me about the Jet2 in your text, wonder what was going on there?

By the way i was driving to work today on my scooter lol and i was early so i decided 2 pull on to the view point ( bayton lane) and i noticed a Jet2 737 being towed down Rnwy 32 by a tug and a small jet2 van following mmmmm????!!!??? :rolleyes: :confused: :rolleyes: :confused:

u no it got mentioned that there are 30 year iolds in other class we cant for get 100 yr old GARY lol

I think you mean ‘residents’ of LBA! I’m an LBA resident, but only in Summer. If the ice-cream van isn’t parked up at the cemetary I’m not interested 🙂

Paul

Hahahaha, ok i take it back, residents is what i mean. 😉 Good to see you got your priorities right 😀

You got to go experince LBA on a cold and windy day. Then you see the airliners having fun and been knocked about alot with cross winds on final approach. Sometimes i wonder how they get in. I really do.

I know I’ve come into LBA in winter a few times when weather conditions haven’t been entirely favourable. My return flight from CDG with JET2 last January was interesting. It was rough as hell on the way out, and it wasn’t much better coming back in. Good fun though…I like turbulence!

Then again I’ve had plenty of interesting landings there on perfectly still days in mid summer. It’s one of LBA’s unique characteristics and one it’s quite well known for!

You got to go experince LBA on a cold and windy day. Then you see the airliners having fun and been knocked about alot with cross winds on final approach. Sometimes i wonder how they get in. I really do.

Crikey, how many LBA ‘fans’ we got on this forum :p 😉 they are growing by the day!! 😀 hehe

Great piccies guys, certainly seems an interesting airport 🙂

I think you mean ‘residents’ of LBA! I’m an LBA resident, but only in Summer. If the ice-cream van isn’t parked up at the cemetary I’m not interested 🙂

Paul

Crikey, how many LBA ‘fans’ we got on this forum :p 😉 they are growing by the day!! 😀 hehe

Great piccies guys, certainly seems an interesting airport 🙂

BTEC National Certificate in Airline and Airport Operations 🙂

So pretty much all aviation related.

You can actually sign up for that coll, PMN. In one of the classes there are a few 30 years olds in a class of under 21s.

Thanks for the info A330-300, but it would get in the way of my job! Had I not gone in search of a career in music when I was 16 I might have considered it!

Just out of interest what are you guys studying there? Anything aviation related?

You can actually sign up for that coll, PMN. In one of the classes there are a few 30 years olds in a class of under 21s.

Believe me, once you get in there, its just like a normal college, except you see planes when you look outside!

Which is the bit I’m talking about:). Then again I did 24 flights with work last year so I can’t really complain!

Believe me, once you get in there, its just like a normal college, except you see planes when you look outside!

Make that three…

GRRR!!! Jealous? Me? Well…Maybe slightly:) I know you keep saying the novelty wears off Tom but compared to some of the places I spend my days being at an airport everyday can’t be all that bad!

Make that three…

Great. As if having one person who spends all his time at LBA wasn’t bad enough…Now there’s TWO of you!:)

Welcome LBA-EGNM!

Paul

Yo Mr Webb :D.

Hey there people im new to this but i do go, and in the same class at college as Tom. i was just wondering at LBA can you still walk round to the end of 32? ANother question is on the south side ( multiflight side) there is a small brick building could anybody actually tell me what this is or what it was?

lucky enough i do have a friend who lives the second street away from the 32 side ( Scotland Way) so i get some good views. i can even see the approach lights from his strees but was wondering would any one recomend actually going up to the 32 walk around or what?

Cheers LBA-EGNM

Thanks for the info Flightrider. I was aware there’d been a good few 747’s through LBA, but thanks for clarifying the runway length question.

Paul

There is no problem with runway length for 747 operations and indeed, the actual declareed runway distances available have improved slightly since Wardair days because of the threshold on 32 being moved back. The only constraint was that larger aircraft could only backtrack and use 28/10 to access the apron since the north/south taxiway (Delta) could never take larger aircraft like the 747 or 767 due to load-bearing strength and taxiway width.

As a previous poster has said, Wardair pulled out after being merged into Canadi>n and most of their regional UK services went at that time. There were a variety of other carriers who took up the slack – I think Worldways Canada (L1011-100s and DC8-63s) had already disappeared by then, but they operated into LBA – and others including Odyssey International (B757s), Nationair Canada (B757 and DC8-63) and finally Air Transat (B757 + L1011) have all operated Leeds-Toronto since.

Other carriers who have flown 747s into LBA over the years include:
* British Airways, whose 747-100 G-AWND arrived at LBA on 4 November 1984 to open the new runway alongside one of Wardair. It operated two round-Britain pleasure flights from LBA and I was on the second one;
* BA also brought a 747 (G-AWNO) up to LBA for filming of some promotional footage in late 1985 as it was the first aircraft in the new Landor livery;
* Virgin flew a 747 pleasure flight up from LGW in June 1987 (I think);
* United Arab Emirates royal flight has operated the 747SP in and out a couple of times;
* Corsair and Air Atlanta 747s on occasional football charters (Euro 96 for Corsair) and Lourdes charters;

I’m sure there are others that I’ve missed, but these are the ones which instantly spring to mind.