Yes the BWIA is supposed to come back again to Prestwick on the 3rd week of June, we will see. Apparently 9Y-JIL is having a “C” check.

EUJet did it’s last flight from Glasgow on the 15th of February before suspending the route and word was it would come back in June but I haven’t seen any mention of it so far, has anyone else heard owt?

EK, Glasgow is more difficult for Movie Clips but there are a few places I could get them. Problem is I don’t like following something down and then stopping it right at the moment of touchdown because the fence is in the way.

The spot I fancy Camcordering from is takeoff’s from 05 at Glasgow in the evening at the bottom of Yonderton Road to get liftoff’s so will try that at some point.

I was at Finkenwerder in April and it was very quiet but I got a few nice Camcorder sequences of Beluga’s landing and departing, I’ll add those next time they turned out quite good. It’s so odd looking to look at when it moves.

Fred.

That would sound about right for the timing with it leaving about 7pm I was nearly tempted to keep a listen out for it coming back in case it went to Stand 8 again since that is one of the very few Stands that you could get some night shots through the Terminal windows.

The lights are quite orange but that can be partly rectified by the Digi camera or in photoshop, I always shoot RAW mode anyway which helps in dealing with strong colour casts.

Only problem with Stand 8 at GLA is that when I’ve been in and looked at night there is often a KLM aircraft towed over to a Stand in front of it.

Kevin keep an eye open for it tomorrow if you are in the area, decent forecast and Easterlies again but you know Glasgow it will probably take ages for the low mist to burn off.

Fred.

Woops I forgot to attach the photos so here they are.

Fred.

No I don’t thik so it looks like the new finance that BWIA got from their Government has allowed them to keep this aircraft so mostly likely it will continue to be 9Y-JIL that does the PIK flight, wouldn’t mind the other better looking one doing it for a while.

On a different theme entirely the first of two Globespan 737-600’s arrived today at Glasgow that are being leased from SAS and the word is it’s in hybrid colours, basic SAS fuselage and engine colours but Globespan Billboard titles and tail logo so that’s another interesting one for us this Summer. I like these hybrid schemes.

Fred.

Yes the A340 was well off line before touchdown due to the crosswind and it was a real long distance shot, took it at the full 400mm on my 10D then cropped in quite a bit.

I was hoping for some nice spray from it but there wasn’t enough water on the Runway after an Atlas 747 had blasted most of it off. That was a very long departure heading to the Middle East on a “Reach” flight.

Fred.