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I've been busy with other things in the last few months, but recently I've continued my scanning proces. 1998 was a very busy year with visits to Heathrow, Dusseldorf, Paris, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Madrid, Fairford and of course Schiphol. To give some better impressions, I decided to make several topics for your convenience. First on is an impression of my visit to LHR in February.
I flew to LHR with KLM, which used a B747-300 for the short hop thanks to the cancellation of earlier flights. Nice surprise! Spotting was done from the now closed Queens Building, which had great views on the procedings at the airport. Now on to the planes!
BA was in the progress of repainting it's fleet into the new World Tails-livery. This Boeing 747-400 of British Asia Airways was still in the Landor-livery:
09-B744-BAA-GCIVA-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
BWIA was still around with those retro-looking TriStars:
11-L1011-BWI-9YTGN-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
BA B777 with World Tail:
14-B772-BAW-GRAES-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
BA A320 with World Tail:
13-A320-BAW-GBUSI-LHR27feb98 by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/lifelinerone
Classic BA Jumbo touching down:
15-B742-BAW-GBDXJ-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
VARIG was also still flying and had this nice colorscheme:
20-MD11-VRG-PPVPO-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Good looking B737 from Virgin Express:
22-B733-VEX-OOVEE-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Brand new in those days was this Saudi B747-400:
17-B744-SVA-HZAIW-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Virgin had a rather dull colorscheme in those days, as presented by this A340. Note the "No way BA/AA" sticker:
12-A343-VIR-GVAIR-LHR28feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Elegant A340 of Air Canada touching down:
23-A343-ACA-CFYLU-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
JAL B747-200F Silver Bullet:
25-B742F-JAL-JA8180-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Classic Boeing 737 from Air Algerie:
26-B732-ALG-7TVEZ-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
American Airlines also used their A300's for routes to the UK:
31-A300-AAL-N14068-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Very nice catch was this SAS B767 in the Star Alliance-scheme:
36-B763-SAS-OYKDH-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Always a pleasure to see Air India with that nice colorscheme:
10-B744-AIC-VTEVB-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Just one to admire the classic lines of the Landor scheme:
16-B763-BAW-GBNWP-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Emirates was a new and small airline in those days:
18-B772-EKA-A6EMH-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Swissair was also still around:
19-A321-SWS-HBIOC-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Dull B747-400 from Virgin:
24-B744-VIR-GVTOP-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Royal Brunei B767:
28-B763-RBA-V8RBH-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Another two World Tails:
32-A320-BAW-GBUSE-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
33-B744-BAW-GBNLS-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Nice A340 from Air Mauritius:
34-A343-MAU-3BNAU-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
And as a last picture, a Concorde in the classic BA-colorscheme:
35-Concorde-BAW-GBOAA-LHR27feb98 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr
Hope you liked them! More to follow!
Cheers!
