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

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.

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.

Bristol Airport 1/3/10

A beautiful sunny spring day (at last). Runway 27 in use.

10:20 - EasyJet G-EZIZ A319 Slowing on 27, reverse engine flaps still open.

10:24 - Air Southwest G-WOWD Dash8-300 Departing10:26 - Followed by Airsouthwest G-WOWA

10:42 - KLM Fokker F70 arriving from Amsterdam 10:44 - Easyjet A319 G-EZAZ Departing as KLM vacates 27

10:44 - Ryanair 737-800 EI-EFY touches down literally 10 seconds after the EZY A319 lifted off the other end of the runway!!

10:46 - Continental 757 N18112 blasting off to Newark USA These Continental pilots really know how to use all of the tarmac, lifting off just meters from the end of runway 27.
10:47 - Bmi Embraer E145 G-RJXA from Brussels nearing the end of 27.

An amazing flurry of movements - 5 in 5 minutes, what an end to an hours spotting.

Bristol Airport 26/2/10

A bit warmer today, maybe spring is on the way at last! Runway 09 in use. I was hoping to catch the Koral Blue from Sharm-el Sheik but it was delayed by 3 hours!

Ryanair EI-DWZ powering up on 09

Bmi Embraer E145 G-RJXA operating the 12:05 behalf of SN Brussels as SAB2056 to Brussels.

Ryanair EI-DPJ 737-800 departing 20 minutes late. EasyJet G-EZAD A319 touching down as EZY6052 from AGP. Air Southwest Dash8-300 G-WOWC seconds from touchdown.

Other static aircraft were 3 Ryanair 737's EI-DLT, ETY, EXC 2 EasyJet A319's and G-ZAPR Titan Bae146

Kemble 15/1/10

Quick trip to Kemble to catch up on stored airliners, hoping the KD Avia 737 had arrived but unfortunatly not.

KLM 737 trio minus engines

DHL A300 OO-DIF with new registration EI-OZA being painted on.

Only 2 MK 747's left since 'Blue Stripe' started operations again, here is G-MKGA

And G-MKCA

In scrappers corner were 2 747's + Clickair fuselage and cockpits from Seyschelle 767, Air India 747, 2 x Air India A310 + 747

Filton 21/1/10

A quick stop at Filton to see the Beluga, but missed it by a few minutes!

The only thing to see was a BMi Regional plain white E145