Sunday I spent mostly recuperating, and Monday I went along to EDI for the meet with Ren Frew, bemused, Matthew Murray and Martin EGTK.

Unfortunately, I managed to ruin two films on the SLR which I’d got working again, I do have 1 roll of film from the meet, but I haven’t gotten round to having it developed yet (yes, I know it was 2 months ago). Tuesday night was the Henrik Testimonial at Paradise, and Wednesday found me back on a mainline BA plane for the first time in, well, ages (the ERJ and Dash8 being BACX operated).

BA A319 G-EUPJ was my transport for this shuttle flight down to LHR, and after taking a photo of her out the gate window, as well as pics of the departing US Airways/Continental and American 767’s (a -200, -400 and -300 respectively), I boarded Papa Juliett, and started to wind the Film on to change it. Well, those of you who were at Edinburgh can guess what happened next…

Yes, yet another film in the bin. At that point, I gave up with the Photos for the trip, and just concentrated on enjoying Airshow, the first time I’d been on a BA flight where they left the Map on for the flight. It was a 57 minute flight to LHR, and a miracle happened…
There was an edible All Day Deli! *knocks self down with Feather* Yes, a nice slice of Apple Pie was the catering on board BA1483 on the 26th of May. I think I may have to get the Boarding pass framed…

Which just left to disembark, and finally offered me a chance to photograph more than just the inside engine of her…

56 minutes after leaving MAN, we touched down in GLA, but not before having flown over the City, and having our photograph taken by Ren (there was a thread at the time)

Total flight time was 96 minutes, so we had made some time up on the scheduled flight time of 2 hours, but after the ridiculous delay at Zurich, it was getting a bit tight for time…

1 Rushed disembarkation, passing through Security and asking the way to the Gate later, I stopped off at WH Smith for a copy of Airliner World and a bag of Fruit Pastilles, and almost before I’d had a chance to pay for them, I was being paged to go to the gate Immediately. Yes, it was that short a transfer.

For this flight, I was on Dash8-300 G-BRYZ for the flight upto Glasgow, and after reaching my seat, it was almost time to Startup, for this, my first non LX Saab prop flight, which I was quite looking forward to.

As always, the flight is over much too soon, here we are descending over the Cheshire countryside towards MAN. I’d kind of been hoping to ask to visit the flight deck when we arrived, but as we came in, there was an announcement that passengers connecting to Cork and those travelling onward to Glasgow should disembark first, as both were being held up already (in fact, the Cork flight allegedly returned to MAN having taken off already to collect the pax?)