Good to see the 154 again, that is one of my favourites 😀 I saw the Jet2 Manchester jet the other week (March 7th or 8th) and also Eurowings CRJ.

Great shots, great airport 😀 I bagged the Vodafone there on 30th March 2004, my first ever visit to BHX the day before I flew out to BRU. Jaguar was my favourite and I saw that the following day in the fog 🙁

Roll on 4th September 😀

I think that corporate manslaughter can have a place. Take recent rail disasters for example. In Potter’s Bar, the points had not been fixed properly, causing a train to crash and people to be killed, at Hatfield the rail was in such bad condition it shattered and caused the derailing of a train and the deaths of several people. Those accidents were preventable by proper maintenance of the tracks, but there is so much emphasis on cost cutting that lives are put in danger needlessly. Firms like that should be tried with corporate manslaughter because they were down to negligence and would probably not have happened if various companies got off their backsides and did their jobs instead of counting the costs and the profits.

How do they kill sharks (for sport mainly)? They are not killed humanely but then again no one is bothered about them because they are not cute and cuddly looking. Crocodiles are killed by having a metal stake hammered into their necks, it can take hours for them to die, but no one is bothered about this because they don’t look cute. Chickens for the dinner table are crammed into sheds with tens of thousands of other birds. They have to sit knee deep in their own sh*t and the ammonia causes them to develop burns on their legs, but this is overlooked because hens are hardly cute are they? Ducks, which need to swim, are kept in dark barns and denied their most basic instincts, but this is never brought to public attention because people just don’t give a damn about poultry. If all this was happening to little veal calves, there would be a massive outcry. That is the pioint I am making, people like to ignore the cruelty inflicted on some animals and make a shout about cruelty to others, it all depends on how cute the animal is on whether people actually care about it or not. Working in veterinary practice has taught me that if you are going to protect the welfare of animals, you do it for all animals and not just the ones which suit you.

Thanks, Comet. 🙂

You are very welcome 😀

I have to say I love the photos, they hadn’t uploaded fully when I wrote my earlier reply. Nice to see some smaller aircraft in there too, along with my old friends from the Land of Beer and Chocolate (back there again in 23 weeks!)

Makes me wish I could go spotting more than a couple of times a year. Aircraft are my favourite subjects for video and photos and it is maddening when you have a hobby you can hardly indulge in 🙁