Thanx a lot for nice comments

One more:
Air Canada Airbus A330-300 C-GHKX

04.04.
Korean Air
Boeing 747-4B5

12.04
Luxair – Luxembourg Airlines
Embraer ERJ-145LU

Swiss International Air Lines
British Aerospace Avro RJ100

Delta Air Lines
Boeing 767-332(ER)

Nice shots there like the Gulf Air A330 shot 😎 Just wondering whats that on the SAS MD82 nose wheel is it some sort of brake? :confused:

James

This is what i found

“According to my MD manual the device is properly called a spray deflector and is one item on the exterior preflight inspection.

I have the video of the wet runway tests with and without this device. It is quite a difference. The spray is thrown in a much lower arc with the deflector attached and it makes ingestion by the engines much less likely.

Without the deflector the material would not travel much farther, mostly just higher. And if it goes higher it takes longer to arc over the top and fall back to the runway. Longer time = more opportunity for the engines to get there and ingest it.

At 120 knots a plane is traveling just over two hundred feet per second. Let’s picture a nosewheel tire with a tread width of ten inches, rolling 200fps through slush lying one-quarter inch deep on the runway. The tire will throw six thousand cubic inches (that is about 26 gallons) of slush per second up, and out to the side. Well, since the engines will arrive where the nosewheel is now in less than one second. The need to keep the spray low becomes pretty obvious when you think of it that way.

Forget gravel and other FOD, I don’t think jet engines would be happy being fed 26 gallons of water per second.

When the DC-9-80 entered line service this spray deflector created a small problem. The standard DC-9 towbar was about an inch too narrow of throat to fit over it. A whole new series of towbars was distributed.”

Nice KLM shot, Fun Loving Criminal !

Where did you shoot it from ? Looks like it is turning to line up on 27L ?
Gone are the days of standing down by the electricity sub station for 27L departures. Hmmph. I sort of got fed up with LHR after that as I’m nbot too keen on landing shots where you are looking up a bit.

Yes You are right She was taxiing to 27L.
Photo taken through fence on South Perimeter Road.

Thanks for comments guys
😀

There’s more from that day
Sorry for posting them so late but maybe you will like them:

Alitalia
Airbus A319-112

Qantas
Boeing 747-438

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[img]Virgin Atlantic Airways
Boeing 747-4Q8

Air Canada
Boeing 767-375(ER)

Olympic Airlines
Airbus A340-313X

Lufthansa Regional (Eurowings)
British Aerospace BAe 146-200

Air Canada
Airbus A330-343X

Air-India
Boeing 747-437

United Airlines
Boeing 777-222

United Airlines
Boeing 777-222