Bristol Airport Spotter

14 May 2010

Bristol Airport 10/5/10

A glourious sunny morning at Bristol, runway 09 in use.

First arrival was TC-OAI Airbus A321 of Onur Air Turkey arriving from Bodrum (the main reason for this sptting visit)

Followed By G-WOWE Dash 8-300 of Air Southwest

EasyJet A319 G-EZDL landing

EasyJet A319 G-EZIV blasting down 09

KLM Cityhopper Fokker F-70 PH-KZH arriving from Amsterdam

Air Souwest Dash 8-300 G-WOWC touching down one wheel at a time

Followed by the Paris flight of Air France ATR-72, F-GPOC

Arriving 3 1/2 hours late due to the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland is Boeing 767 of First Choice Airways, G-DBLA, touching down very smoothly. Long overdue shot of this 767

Ryanair EI-EKV 737-800 coming in fast and hard as usual, burning rubber on touchdown.

Onur Air TC-OAI lining up from the return leg to Bodrum

Air Southwest using runway 27 instead of 09 to save time and cut delays

G-EZDL EasyJet A319 rolling for 09 takeoff

Thomson 757 G-OOBA arriving. Looks to have had a new nose cone, fitted with winglets.

KLM Cityhopper close up, as it powers down runway 09 returning to Amsterdam

Aurigny ATR-72 G-VZON nose diving to 09

Continental 757 N12116 touching down 3 hours late from New York

EasyJet A319 G-EZAI flaring over threshold

Planning to leave it there, I headed back round the runway.. but.. Ryanair EI-EKV taxiing for 09 departuture past the gate on Winters Lane

Followed by BMI Embraer E145 to Brussels

And Air France ATR72 to Paris

And First Choice 767

30 April 2010

Bristol Airport 29/4/10

After a week of wall to wall sunshine, I chose the only wet day!
Runway 27 in use, visibility very low, my new Tamron 70-300mm Lens in use.

EasyJet A319 G-EZEK along side Winters Lane (Nikkor 18-55mm)

Eastern Airways J41 G-MAJY (Tamron 70-300mm Di)

Air Southwest Dash 8-300 G-WOWD

Air Southwest Dash 8-300 G-WOWC

EasyJet A319 G-EZEK

Air France ATR-72 F-GVZN

Continental 757 N17104 to New York

KLM Cityhopper Fokker F70 PH-WXC from Amsterdam

Thomsonfly.com 757 G-CPEP to Sharm el Sheik, Egypt

Ryanair 737-800 EI-DWD followed by Airsouthwest G-WOWC departing again.

Ryanair 737-800 EI-EKV

A quick look around at the Bristol Flying Club with nothing of interest, so peeked through the fence by Western Power;

Aurigny ATR-72 G-COBO landing on 27

Easyjet A319 G-EZMS landing on 27

KLM Cityhopper blasting up 27 back to AMS

Next spot was on Felton Common under the flightpath, produced a bizjet but missed the shot and Ryanair 737 EI-EFP

And EasyJet A319 G-EZBC

Walking up to the landing lights gave a good veiw of apron, Ryanair 737 EI-EKV about to depart

Followed closley by EI-DWD

And F-GVZN back to Paris

Final stop was back to the Flying Centre to check out the recent bizjet arrival, turned out to be the stunning looking G-OGSK Embraer Legacy 600

19 April 2010

Kemble 15/4/10

A quick visit to check on what's come and gone.

KD Avia 737 VP-BJX parked behind DHL A300 EI-OZA next to the A433 gate.

Plain white A320 of Nouvelair re-registered as M-ABCS

A KLM 737 lacking power

Scrappers corner was looking very empty, no sign of anything from the A433 gate.

13 March 2010

UL9 over Badminton 14/3/10

A chance sighting on a glourious spring morning- A Polet Airlines Antonov AN-124 RA-82075 decending west bound on UL9 towards South Wales, destination unknown.

Not a great photo, but only had a few seconds to grab a camera.