Maybe unrelated but Thomson 787 G-TUIC is returning to MAN after being advised to hold over the Irish sea past 2 hours
Are you sure Scotty ? Just checked Flightdata24 and it’s not flying but flew to Sanford from Manchester today.
oh dear surely not the Dreamliner again ? (sorry Matt just beat me to it)
Didn’t realise the Volotea was a weekly flight. Love that bizjet 737. Excellent.
I went to DUS AS well, but most my photos failed dus to bad settings (I’d done indoor shooting of dance event). By the time I found out and corrected the settings the shots got killed by heathaze. C’est la vie.
did you also go to Muenchengladbach? i saw two Dutch spotters there as well.
Been there. Night shots taken at ISO 1600 and forgot to set back to 200 for morning shots.
Fantastic Dusseldorf. Great stuff Eddy. I will be there in September – hope I get the Amasria. I didn’t know Dusseldorf got Baltic 757s.
Great shots rab. I like the Transat A310 angle and background. I would argue why anyone would want a lens that goes to 500mm as you are never going to get the quality if the aircraft as so far away but I’ve see quite a few people using that lens and they love it. I don’t even use the 200 to 300mm range of my 28-300mm Nikkor lens preferring to use far superior 80-200mm lens at 200mm and just crop it – quality is better. The shorter the range, the higher the quality.
Cracking shot of the Qatar 787 / Egyptair 737 double. Excellent.
Brilliant Chris. That AN-12 is amazing !
Thanks again. Last few…












Fantastic airport – all these were taken in three sessions of 3-4 hours. Love to go back there for a few days. Thanks for looking.
Crikey – what a beast – it almost looks ridiculous to be honest. Nice capture. It departs tomorrow morning but too early for me.
Air Volga CRJ ? Wow !
Great variety here. Shots are nice and sharp.
Cheers Rob. A few more…


Eddy (civilspotter) got the SCAT a while back, I got this…(nice but I’d rather have the SCAT !)…


These two were miles away (before we found a better spot so are a bit grainy)…


Eddy got the Rusline, I got it with Tatarstan painted on it and the light was not perfect 🙁

Some from the afternoon…





Last few to follow…
Cheers folks. Will post more later. If anyone is up for a trip next year late May early June (4 days) give me a shout.
Nice one Matt. Sick about the Kazak and I’m always too lazy to drive up the airblue A340 even though I know it’s coming in early and it’s sunny.