Just a bit of nostalgia.

Departing Heathrow.

On route to Stansted.

On Stand 42.

Gotta love the “Oldies”. 😀

Manston and America is knowhere near FRA 😉

But then an “East to West” flight over FRA wouldn’t have come from AMS or LHR either :confused: , as Robert stated in his original post.

Jamie’s turn to post the next one then? 🙂

Or Tenthije, after all, he suggested Viscount first. 😉

Just a Couple of Topical ones.

And…

Just to see if it would…
I think the Model Flight Dymamics are a little “Off”. 😀
NO the picture ISN’T rotated.

So what county is the Jet2 737 from? 😀

Oh god another NIMBY :p

Not at all Andrew.

I used to love nothing more than spotting from my own back garden. We also used to spend many a mis-spent hour at Heathrow.
Of course, that was in the days of VC-10’s, B707’s, Hs121’s and the BAC1-11’s and not forgetting, everybody’s nemsis, Concorde (Extra-ordinarily loud on reverse thrust when landing, or even Full Afterburn when taking off)

Not your extra quiet (by comparison) modern jet airliners.

It’s just that, sometimes, you can relate to the cries that are ever present from residents around major airports.

For most of the day, and indeed, evening you’d become immune to the traffic, but it always seemed to work out, that just as an interesting story came on the news, for example, a Bleedin’ 1-11 or Trident would fly over, rattling the mortar out from in between your bricks. 😀

The old RR Spey engines, for anyone who can remember them didn’t exactly have “Whisper-Mode”. 😮

Quite an impressive beast, but boy is it UGLY.
The B747 still looks nicer IMO, much more graceful. 🙂

And let’s not “Write Off” the 747 yet, don’t forget Boeing have more than 30 years headstart in the Super-Jumbo category.

Boeing fan… 😀