I agree, very interesting stuff. 😉

Hiya, thanks for the comments. I promise i will get some more pics up by the end of today.

Allen, the Air Madrid 330 is an ex-Volare Airlines Aircraft (I-VLEC) Which was in storage at Filton for around the period of 2 months. There is an airbus factory/offices at Filton. Airbus’ test aircraft often visit.

Ah….. 😮

Thanks Allen, is that a Freddie Laker skytrain in the fourth photo???

Indeed it is, sitting outside the big maintenance hangar at GLA on a typical gloomy day.

That looks a lot like W*A*S*P in the second picture ? Met their manager “Duggie” in a bar just off the strip in LA a couple of years ago. He was from London and happy to buy a round of drinks for us Brits abroad, which was good as it was $50 a feckin round !!! 😮

Mind you, the waitress dressed in head to toe, painted on, black leather kind of made it worth it. :p

Nice pics, can I ask why the A330 was being delivered from Filton? Is Filton a final assembly plant for A330’s, I thought Toulouse handled that ?

Oh my god!!! someone else who sees things the way i do, well done Hand :). I hate the tabloids, they’re a scurge that does nothing but stir up **** storms :mad:. Give me a broadsheet ANY time

I had an argument with a friend lately about The Independent relaunching in a tabloid size format. He reckoned people would no longer buy it as it was now a tabloid.

I argued that it was still the same paper, just in a tabloid size paper format. He said people would consider it to be the same as The Sun, Mirror etc and if the same thing happened to his favourite paper The (Glasgow) Herald then he’d stop buying it.

After about three hours of trying to assure him it’s just a change of paper size and not content, I gave up and bored my eyeballs out with a cork screw !!! 😮

What’s Steve Stevens doing these days Kabir? I saw him with Billy Idol yonks ago.

Always thought he deserved a bit more glory than the spiky haired snotty one. 😀