You're kind of right, but still interesting for us geeks nonetheless.

Round here we see the Beluga flying into Hawarden regularly to pick up wings for the smaller Airbus' and that's a sight to behold. It always looks like it's going very, very slowly.

 

I've never seen a Beluga flying but I'd like to, Liverpool you say? Hmmm, that's not too far from me...

 

do you work at LHr flightman, if so what doing, ?

 

The Beluga comes into Hawarden which is a bit further into Wales

 

It's about 84 miles door to door, I checked

 

Fail to see what all the fuss is about.

747s have had upper decks for years- best place on the plane , hands down.

This thing is just an overblown whale, crammed full of econochav, and its an airbus, which i dont particuarly like anyway generally.
Just a couple of the reasons I wont be flying it.

All IMHO of course

 

Do people actually choose what plane they catch? Personally, I just book a flight and get on whatever crate turns up. From my 26 inches of leg room, there's **** all difference between an Airbus and a Boeing to me.

 

If you can see the thing through the rain clouds.....

Will be impressive no doubt. A South African airlines 747 did a display a couple of years back there and that was great! Seems crazy seeing a passenger airliner flying around at low level doing sharp turns etc!

 

Do it. They normally turn it round pretty quickly (about an hour) so you can see it land then take off again without too much hanging about. It looks weird taking off as it just looks as though it's never going to build enough speed up.

 

Hmm, I ran this post through the NACROMETER(tm), results below,


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He, he. We watched that blood centre go up last year - very odd looking building! Our office was directly opposite the grassy bit and was excellent for watching planes come into Filton. We're now in the top floor of the new building - can't hear the planes as much, but have quite a good view out across the airfield and at the remains of Concorde.

The Typhoon with the Red Arrows was awesome - we were (perhaps unwisely, with hindsight!) stood right under the flightpath when the typhoon lit up both reheats and stood the aircraft on its tail!

 

What do I do? This:

http://www.heathrowairport.com/asset...et_for_Web.pdf

 

 

Yeah, Antonov AN-124. Big old beast. Requires between 4 - 6 mins of take-off thrust at start of roll to stabilise the engines.

 

I collected some frames today for Galvanizing, I asked the Guy loading if it was true that these are for the transportation of the A380 Airbus wings, Yes they are going to Toulouse for fitment

 

im stil not sure flightman do you work for baa or an airline?

 

BAA.

 

i work in cargo at manchester

 

the airport you dont own

 

I'm currently doing my PPL so I'm sort of a plane geek, always have been really, but like I say passenger planes are fairly boring IMHO. Some people make such a fuss over the glamour of travelling on a plane & the airline industry & a lot of the time it total nonsense.

*gets off soapbox and google's images of interesting aircraft

 

LOL, rumour has it MAN are preparing a bid for LGW. They'll have to find some more money down the sofa to outbid the Arabs!

So what do you do in cargo? I think, maybe wrong, that Funkii Munkii on here does some cargo type work at LHR.

 

Jacko, that's brilliant!

 

airfreight export manager for a seafreight co in mcr

 

I'm a duty manager in SNN operations
We had the A380 here a while back doing touch and go's during heavy crosswinds.
Speaking of beasts we had the An-225 here a while back also
now thats a BIG mo fo

 

went there once on an aerlingus trip, went to bunratty castle, got leathered on mead,

 

I've been in one of those, it's staggering how big it is. Even when flying it's so big it looks like it's hardly moving, looks more like an airship.

 

I go there quite often too. Do the yanks still use it as a transit base for airliners full of GI's on their way to Iraq? It was teaming with them once when I was there. I don't think the Irish authorities were very pleased by the whole thing.

 

Classic lol,

 

wat do yo do funki who do you work for