UL9 10/4/11

Heading west and trailing at 30,000 feet was Martinair MD-11F

UL9 8/4/11

Heading back from the US was Lufthansa A380 D-????

MAM-DIKAS 6/4/11

Overhead with intermitant trail was USAF C-5A Galaxy

Bristol Airport 17/3/11

With a hint of spring in the air, an hour on Winters Lane with runway 27 in use produced -

EasyJet A319 G-EZBZ departing

Air Southwest Dash8-300 G-WOWE departing

KLM Cityhopper Fokker 100 PH-OFO arriving from Amsterdam as KLM1049 (nice to see a F100 for a change from the usual F70)

Followed by Flybe G-ECOJ Dash8-400 from Belfast as BEE923

And Air France ATR-72 F-GVZM from Paris as AFR2172EasyJet A319 G-EZAD Departs 20 minutes late

And the final movement was TOM694 Thomson 757 G-OOBI to SSH Sharm El Sheik

On the western apron were BMI E145 G-RJXI in Star Alliance colours, 2 Ryanair 737's and an EasyJet A319.

UL9 14/3/11

UL9 Airway over Badminton, another clear day, highlights were -

Virgin 747-41R G-VAST heading westbound @ 32,000 feet

Atlas Air 747-200 N523MC heading westbound @ 34,100 feet
Singapore 747 heading eastbound

UL9 13/3/11

UL9 Airway over Badminton on a fine clear day, highlights were -

USAF C-17 Globemaster 06-6167 heading southwest @ 32,000 feet

USAF C-17 Globemaster 06-6164 heading southwest @ 34,000 feet
Martinair MD11F PH-MCS heading westbound @ 30,000 feet

Bristol Airport 10/2/11

A terrible day to spend lunch time up the airport, but never mind. A wet runway 27 in use.

BMi Regional Embraer E145 G-RJXD off to Brussels

Followed by Air France by Airliner ATR-72 F-GVZL to Paris

The only arrival - EasyJet A319 G-EZAW from Nice

Parked on the Western apron were Ryanair 737-800's EI-ENN, EI-DAC, EI-ENG & EI-EMN and EasyJet A320 G-EZTM

And finally a little surprise - Gulfstream G-IV N129NS

UL9 8/1/11

A couple of breif snippits of blue sky produced

Southern Air Cargo 747 heading east

And Air France A380 F-HPJC heading west to the states

A bit lower was glider G-DDGY

Kemble 5/1/11

Long time with no Kemble visit, loads of new stuff to photograph.

In via the A433 gate, Scrappers corner had F-GITA -nosecone, tail and engines and a 737 fuselage (Ryanair i think). The Belfast apron had A300 DHL EI-OZA - now missing front of the engines

and JAT Airways Boeing 737-400 YU-AOS

D-Site apron had Air France sister ships A320 F- GHQI and 747 F-GITC

From the AV8 Cafe, veiw accross to the newly arrived Royal Jordanian A310 JY-AGP

Also Air France 747 F-GITB minus engines

and the triplets! Fokker F-27's of Farnair Europe, from left to right HA-FAH

In the middle, HA-FAD

and HA-FAF

Round to the new Lufthansa Training Facility to see if there is anything - only the 2 resident MK Ailrines 747's and the gaggle of Bae146's

And finally on the way out noticed C-47 Skytrain doing engine tests on the grass - a great sight, with clouds of smoke pouring out on start-up.