Bristol Airport 24/5/10

A fine hot sunny evening for a 10 minute stop at BRS, runway 27 in use.

Ryanair 737 EI-DHX on finals over the A38 with Costa Daurada logos

Followed closely by EI-DPA

And Air Southwest Dash 8-300 G-WOWC

And finally EasyJet A319 G-EZEO

Kemble 19/5/10

A quick stop to see whats in scrappers corner this week.

Air France A320 F-GFKT just arrived on it's last flight. Parked outside Iron Mountain

The gaggle of BAe 146's included

Scappers corner included Midwest Boeing 737 SU-MWC

And 2 KD Avia 737's minus engines

BAe 146 B-BZAU taxiing down runway 09 turning round and departing on runway 27
Also were all 3 KLM 737's, 2 MK Airlines 747's, another Air France A320 and DHL A300

Bristol Airport 13/5/10

A quick half hour to see the Koral Blue, runway 27 in use, weather good.

Koral Blue Airbus A319 SU-KBB arriving from SSH, Egypt

PH-KZH Fokker F70 of KLM Cityhopper exiting runway 27

Ryanair 737-800 EI-DLY slowing to the end of 27

Continental 757 N17128 with winglets lifting off back accross the pond

And finally Ryanair 737-800 EI-EKV with reverse flaps still open rolling to the end of runway

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

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