This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for December 2019 and the subject is ‘Winter Wonderland'. The subject of your entry should be a photo of one or more civil registered aircraft (including any preserved ex military with a civilian registration) which includes snow or/and ice ...

This is the voting poll for the November 2019 Special Photo Of The Month competition, the subject was ‘a displaying aircraft from a 2019 airshow ‘ Thank you to everybody who submitted entries - we had 12 entries of a very high standard. The poll is open to all registered members but you must be sign...

Entries are now closed for this competition and the topic locked. I'm in Italy at present so will set up the poll on my return

Thanks to those who have entered
Andy

Excellent set Paul, looks even colder than Heathrow on Monday!

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of CA and the staff would like to say a very big 'Thank you' to everyone that has contributed towards the continued success of the forum. :) Have a great weekend and raise a glass, or several!, to the next 10 years. Thanks again everyone, Mike, Andy, Paul & M...

Thanks for the kind comments everyone.
For info they were taken from the mound just north of Stanwell Moor which is shown on my Heathrow photography guide on the 27R departures section, excellent spot!
Andy

I spent Monday morning at Heathrow after taking my neighbour to catch SIA318 to Singapore, superb light but very cold, fairly standard stuff but still enjoyable catching 27R departures for 5 hours, here's a selection; I love the Landor scheme!... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49174624353_9f8bd...

here's a few more from yesterday..... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49168819237_b912d81179_h.jpg M-AAAM Bombasdier challenger 604 cn.5435 Stansted 03-12-2019 7088 by Andrew Goldsmith , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49168590946_5c575621e1_h.jpg N458EE Emb.505 cn.55010058 Stanste...

thanks Denis and all - yes it was extremely cold but still worth it for the selection that visited.

I've just got a backlog of photos to go through now as I was at Heathrow on Monday as well ( and almost as cold!)

~Andy

we had a special Planewatch event at the Aerozone today to allow us to see the arrivals for the NATO summit in London today and tomorrow. Thanks to the police for organising it. The American contingent arrived last night but nevertheless there was a regular flow of aircraft from other NATO countries...

Well I've only been out once so far and it's looking unlikely that I will manage anything this coming week so it will have to be something from my visit to Southend on 16th when I went to see Vulcan XL426, registered G-VJET strutting it's stuff - superb sight and noise, the first time I'd seen a Vul...

I didn't realise how few displays I went to this year until I started looking for an entry. must do better in 2020! This was taken at Little Gransden's annual show on the very hot August bank holiday weekend, Sea Fury G-INVN painted as WG655 coming round the bend https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...

EMA Planespotting wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:06 pm

Cool!! Does anyone know what it was carrying??

nothing exciting, parts for a Dreamliner in the USA apparently

Andy

Wow, nice set. :thumb: Didn't know the Vulcan is still flying. It's not flying (unfortunately) Wallie, it was just doing runs along the runway. It's not the one that was flying until 2015 either that was XH558 (G-VLCN) which now resides next to a sewage works at Doncaster and is unaccessible to the...

night stopping and due out tomorrow at 11.00 to USA (info from Stansted Aviation Enthusiasts Google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/stnae )

andy

B.747-400 G-CIVG positioned to Cardiff yesterday for decommissioning, first of the CIV* series to be retired :( 2 pics of it taken in February 2015: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49084260011_54b3dc4cfd_o.jpg G-CIVG B.747 British Aiirways Heathrow 17-02-2015 5674 by Andrew Goldsmith , on Flickr...

I went to Southend yesterday to see Vulcan G-VJET (aka XL426) carry out it's first taxi run for a while - it was superb! The viewing location was also excellent for views of aircraft taxiing into the terminal and of course on the runway so it was an even better day! Starting with the other movements...

never mind the quality of the prints Philip, it's the quality of the content that is important on photos of this age and that content is superb - well found and thanks for sharing them

Andy

Voting is complete in this competition and the winners are 1st LondonEye (Pete) with his beautiful Dan-Air Comet G-BDIT at Gatwick https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48997172661_a119f78c17_b.jpg Comet Dan-Air G-BDIT Gatwick 2nd Cessna954's Air Europe B. 757 at Tenerife https://live.staticflickr.com...

Voting is complete in this competition and the winners are 1st LondonEye (Pete) with his beautiful Dan-Air Comet G-BDIT at Gatwick 2nd Cessna954's Air Europe B. 757 at Tenerife and 3 entries shared 3rd place: Niallsaviation :Thomas Cook A.321 G-TCVB landing at Corfu Paultojo: Flyjet B.757 G-FJEB and...