Just left the guys at GLA for their delayed flight home as explained by T5, quite a frustrating day, much of the traffic was disrupted or cancelled.
Because so many BA shuttles were cancelled I had my fingers crossed they might have lumped some flights together on a 767 or 777, but even that didn’t come off.
As mentioned by Bhoy, we got a good grilling by some police dog handlers who were training their pooches in a field near the rubble mound where we were spotting. They took us to their van and made us produce ID as well as taking our names and addresses and searching our bags, citing the usual dangerous times and terrorism reasons for disrupting our spotting.
The rubble mound has had several tons of extra earth and crap placed around it thanks to building work at GLA for the new stands and T2. Most of this debris hasn’t settled yet as I demonstrated to the guys by falling down it on my a*se ! :rolleyes:
After that I drove the guys round some of my usual snapping haunts, I’m used to seeing all this stuff, but I think they liked seeing the Loganair Twotters, various propliners and a few Globespan 737’s, a change from the Heathrow traffic they’re used to.
Oh yes, cops everywhere for the departure of Prince Chuck and his bird, I suspect this may have contributed to the over zealousness of Strathclyde’s finest, never had a grilling like that before in twenty years spotting, Oh well ! 😡
I’ll post some pics later, tonight’s pub quiz night and I’m off work tomorrow 😉 Thanks to Andy for selling me his Lufthansa Star Alliance 744 model, it looks very nice on my shelf ! Thanks to Michael for not tabling a counter bid as I know he fancied it too. (lol) 😀
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