London Heathrow 16-08-2012

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Maikel van der Heijden
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London Heathrow 16-08-2012

Post by Maikel van der Heijden »

In august I made a 4 day spotting trip to London Heathrow, from the 16th untill the 20th. The aircraft we wanted to see where the black NZ 773, skyteam Saudi, F1 Etihad, MH a380 and much more we don't see here at Schiphol. I've been to LHR before and you never get bored here. I'm trying to give you an overall impression of the days I was there.

1. One of the Dove's, this one is a ex-BMI aircraft.
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2. It's a regular, but these birds are always welcome.
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3. El Al 747 with "Haifa" titles.
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4. BA's new 777-300.
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5. American Airlines pink ribbon scheme.
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7. 'The Firefly' arriving on runway 27L.
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8. Singapore's Super.
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9. Gulf Air's Formula 1 livery.
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10. Malaysia's afternoon flight is being operated by a 747, the early morning flight is flown by a A380.
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12. Cathay Pacific operates a variety of 747's and 777's.
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16. Saudi's Skyteam, was really hoping to see this one.
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17. Iberia operates a 300 and 600 serie A340 about once every day.
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18. One of the two A330-300 from Virgin Atlantic that operates at LHR.
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19. Sadly the sun was missing.
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20. Etihad also operates A340's and B777's into LHR.
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21. A quick stop at the fence, after our diner.
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Roel Air
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Re: London Heathrow 16-08-2012

Post by Roel Air »

Nice Photos, is it easy to spot on London Heatrow?
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Maikel van der Heijden
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Re: London Heathrow 16-08-2012

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Thank you and yes it's really easy. The local busses are free of charge arround the airport perimeter. Also the runway use is easy to understand. When the winds are from the west (most of the time) the aircraft land 27L and depart 27R or the other way round. That just depends on the week. Untill 6am there is a single runway ops in force, from 6-7am they will land both runways because there is not much departing traffic, from 7am they will use 1 runway. When there are winds from the east then they always land on 09L some aircraft land 09R but most of the time that's the departure runway all day long.
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Re: London Heathrow 16-08-2012

Post by wrxflyer »

Hi,
I ve been there on 17 and 18 August as well.
A few shots of you are exactly the same as mine, so we must have been almost next to each other.

I remember there were a ferw more Dutch people around (2 guys and a young lady) on saturday. Was that you?

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Re: London Heathrow 16-08-2012

Post by Maikel van der Heijden »

Hi Freek,

Yes that's us! Think we sat next to each other during the 27L arrivals. I can remember hearing some dutch next to us, thought that there we 2 guys next to us?
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Re: London Heathrow 16-08-2012

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Nice shots! I was there too on those dates.

Chris
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