London Heathrow, 30th August 2008 (lots of images)

[Ilove165's]

Evening all,

Decided to spend a few hours at t'local in glorious summer weather (for once....)

Hope you enjoy....

Comments/(contructive)critisism etc. etc. welcome

Sam

 

[D306]

I like the last one. it's the way the plane's silhoueted out against the sun

 

[devon_metro]

London was ridiculously hot!!!!!

 

[Ilove165's]

Not wrong there......it was 27 degrees when I left my house.....

 

[adamp]

You Londoners had sun?!
I hate Manchester!!
Havent seen any sun since my holiday on Turkey, 32C, and thats at night hock:

43C at mid day.

Oh good pictures by the way!

-Adam

 

[devon_metro]

You Londoners had sun?!
I hate Manchester!!
Havent seen any sun since my holiday on Turkey, 32C, and thats at night hock:

43C at mid day.

Oh good pictures by the way!

-Adam

It was full sun from about 11am when the haze cleared.

 

[Julian G]

These are nice photos, where did you capture them from?

 

[Ilove165's]

Here...
http://http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=Heathrow+Airport&countryCode=GB#map=51.46267,-0.4345|16|32&loc=GB:51.46017:-0.43556:17|Heathrow%20Airport|

Sam

 

[Andrew Tiffin]

Those planes are excellent.

 

[EE Type 3]

It was sunny in the Dee Valley yesterday

Nice shots, I like the last one. (That's coming from a non-aviation person)

 

[glenn]

Have you photographed the A380 yet at LHR.

 

[5872]

Have you photographed the A380 yet at LHR.

I have, fantastic,


@165s person - Great Shots, favourites are JAL 777 and EK (Emirates) 777 8) :grin:.

 

[Ilove165's]

Have you photographed the A380 yet at LHR.

I have actually, twice on depature and twice on landing(although the shots from the landings aren't very good as it seems to have a phobia of the correct landing runway and decides to land on the other......grrrrr......)

Sam

 

[5872]

I have actually, twice on depature and twice on landing(although the shots from the landings aren't very good as it seems to have a phobia of the correct landing runway and decides to land on the other......grrrrr......)

Sam

Yeah, its due to wind that it changes runway .

 

[glenn]

They usually change runways around midday.
One to photograph is Dubai 1 A6-HRM 747-400.Its due to be at LHR on the
6th sept staying overnight i'm told.

Rare visitor

 

[5872]

They usually change runways around midday.
One to photograph is Dubai 1 A6-HRM 747-400.Its due to be at LHR on the
6th sept staying overnight i'm told.

Rare visitor

How do you know this?, A6 is a UAE reg so its based in DXB.

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=765508 - Its not a rare visitor its always there now and again, least visit was about 3 weeks ago.

 

[Ilove165's]

They usually change runways around midday.
One to photograph is Dubai 1 A6-HRM 747-400.Its due to be at LHR on the
6th sept staying overnight i'm told.

Do you know when it's leaving on sunday? I won't be anywhere near heathrow on saturday asi i'll be out bashing.....

Thanks,

Sam

 

[5872]

Do you know when it's leaving on sunday? I won't be anywhere near heathrow on saturday asi i'll be out bashing.....

Thanks,

Sam

Yep, Should be sunday morning.

I'll keep you updated, I'll know when it leaves.

 

[Ilove165's]

Thank you

 

[glenn]

i mean rare as in not daily.I will know timings later in the week when we've spoken to the crew.

 

[5872]

i mean rare as in not daily.I will know timings later in the week when we've spoken to the crew.

Where do you get this from, this info is usaully private I thought because its a Dubai Air Wing plane, but it usaully leaves in the morning, can go in the afternoon.

 

[Darandio]

Calm down!
There is a possibility that someone knows more than you do.

 

[5872]

Calm down!
There is a possibility that someone knows more than you do.

Ah, I'm prepared to be proved wrong, but the information is most of the time private, so I'm confused, but I'll know when it gets ready to leave.

2000th posts 8)

 

[glenn]

yeah calm down.You don't know who does what for a living on here !!!

 

[JoshW1992]

Nice shots.. like the last one the best.

 

[Coradia]

On the subject of air photos, Gatwich Airport train station is a great place for photographing take off aircrafts as well as trains. Last time I was down there saw a very nose up Virgin 747take off, but the weather was cloudy so to slow with my camera for that one

 

[5872]

On the subject of air photos, Gatwich Airport train station is a great place for photographing take off aircrafts as well as trains. Last time I was down there saw a very nose up Virgin 747take off, but the weather was cloudy so to slow with my camera for that one

But Gatwick isn't as good as LHR/EGLL .

 

[kestrel]

They usually change runways around midday.
One to photograph is Dubai 1 A6-HRM 747-400.Its due to be at LHR on the
6th sept staying overnight i'm told.

Rare visitor

Incorrect, Runway change is scheduled for 1500hrs everyday8)

 

[Julian G]

Incorrect, Runway change is scheduled for 1500hrs everyday8)

Ahhh, that explains yesterday why I saw a A319 on finals on 27L (Hatton Cross) while I was near the Heathrow Academy (27R) waiting for a heavy* to land

*heavy- the big ones

 

[5872]

Ahhh, that explains yesterday why I saw a A319 on finals on 27L (Hatton Cross) while I was near the Heathrow Academy (27R) waiting for a heavy* to land

*heavy- the big ones

, its not always at 1500hrs, Its been 27R/09L for a few days at a time:roll: