Wow Eddy !
I remember Diamond Sakha – I have a couple of shots of the A310 at Heathrow.
Wish it was being painted up in full scheme. 🙁 Would have loved that but it’s in for the Olympics. For such a colourful country Gabon have disgracefully awful no-mark colour schemes. The Air Gabon A340 for instance is pathetic all white with tiny “Air Gabon” on it. Very poor !
League Table – 24th July 2012
1. Norwich (up 5 places)
2. Manchester
3. Southend
😀
Blimey – double whammy. OUCH !
Yakutia – yep I’ve heard of them as I’m tracking what days they are in Palma as I’m going there for a week in Sept. Yakutia passenger 757s and 738s.
I didn’t know they had a cargo arm with a proper 757F though.
Superb movement.
Mega movement ! I’d love to know when this is due out of the paint shop.
Hey I am relaxed and I enjoy the banter. This is an interesting thread.
I live 8 miles from Manchester and visit very regularly and never find it boring – there is nearly always something turning up that I don’t expect. Ok not every day but over the course of a few weeks certainly.
Sure it doesn’t have the mix of Frankfurt, CDG or Heathrow but i does get some gems.
Even though I visit Heathrow less often so potentially would get more photos of stuff I have actually been bored !
Each to their own though. I would love to visit Southend esp around Olympics time but it’s a bit of a treck if there is only one or two aircraft in rare as they may be and I would need a decent photo of them as I don’t collect numbers.
Still chuckling over the “far more airlines” in Southend than LHR, LGW and MAN.
I’ll eat my hat if that’s the case. Some really decent stuff granted but far more airlines give over !
Quality stuff. I love the Lufthansa A340 over part of the Frankfurt skyline. The building on the left is the Messeturm if I am not mistaken (Hammering Man).
Very interesting. In what time frame are we talking ?
Can we have some facts then please – I am working on a Manchester list as we speak. Not having people dissing my local airport 😀 – it’s one of the most interesting airports in the world and does get some unusual visitors as well as a nice mix of regular traffic. Recently we have had Air Bahrain A319, Sky Chile A320 (full reg too :cool:), China Southern Cargo B744F, Windrose Aviation (Ukraine) Embraer – yeah very boring + many others.
EGTC says airlines/types nothing to get overly excited about but what do you expect if it’s in the country you live ? I spent two days at Seoul Incheon in Nov 2010 and everthing that moved was exotic. Try telling that to a local spotter who visits every week. He would be yawning yet if we told him an EasyJet A319 was coming in he would be jumping up and down ! It’s all relative.
Very interesting thread this is and I agree the Aerogal was truly astonishing – I said it at the time (nearly fell off my chair) and I would have driven down to Southend especially for that gem.
But Southend has a better variety ??? Also a better variety than Heathrow ? Well I stand to be corrected. Yeah right. Do you want to see a variety of airlines I’ve photographed at Heathrow and Manchester over the last few years and compare it to Southend ? Am I thinking about the wrong Southend here ? Hee hee !
and better than Gatwick ??? Blimey what an airport Southend is !
Yep. full Chilean reg as well. 😎
Oh no – it’s a gutter as they say !
Nice one Matt. Didn’t bother getting the Delta as I was in USA last year but when checking I only have one landing shot at Miami from the whole trip 😮
Nice shot against the dark sky thanks for posting. IMHO the A340 is the only airbus that looks decent.
In my opinion the most difficult plane to capture on photo. Too elongated especially the A340-600. The A319 on the other hand is very photogenic in my opinion.
Oh yeah better than what Manchester gets ?
Are you having a laugh ? 😀