First POTM entry of 2024 and unsurprisingly for me it from Stansted, National Airlines B747 N936CA in the superb 30 years scheme departing on the 10th January: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53453609694_a51837f222_h.jpg N936CA B747-400F National Airlines Stansted 10-01-2024 2993 by Andrew Golds...

voting has closed in this competition and the winner is Tomcat14 with his photo of a Ruby Star An12 at Benson , well done Paul. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50412434278_21e4220d0b_3k.jpg EW-275TI AN-12 by wokinghampaul , on Flickr I was second with my Breitling Super Constellation at Duxford ...

voting has closed in this competition and the winner is Tomcat14 with his photo of a Ruby Star An12 at Benson , well done Paul. I was second with my Breitling Super constellation at Duxford and we had 2 entries sharing third place, Porkscratching's B.727 M-STAR of Starling Aviation and Rainton20 wit...

here's a link to the 2024 alternations with a PDF to download

https://www.heathrow.com/company/local- ... lternation

Andy

one from me! G-BMGC Fairey Swordfish landing at Old Warden on 7th May

G-BMGC (W5856) Fairey Swordfish Fly Navy Heritage Trust Old Warden 07-05-2023 7301 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

Andy

my first aircraft photos of 2024, a brief trip to Stansted to catch the National B747-400F departing to Japan and a few others whilst I waited.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53453416983_11a39a839b_h.jpg N936CA B747-400F National Airlines Stansted 10-01-2024 2950T by Andrew Goldsmith , on Fl...

Here we go the start of another year of photo competitions.... This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for January 2024 and the subject is ANY civilian aircraft photographed in 2023 which has not won or been 2nd or 3rd in either photo comp, i.e. not already in the hall of fame The...

This is the voting poll for the December 2023 SPOTM competition, the subject was Christmas STARS, aircraft with names connected with stars in they type, operator or in the registration. Thank you to everybody who submitted entries - we had 16 excellent entries The poll is open to all registered memb...

entries are now closed for this competition, the voting poll is now available here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=49250

Thanks to everybody who has entered, it appears to have been a popular subject
Andy

There have been some waxwings at Colchester (about 18 miles from me) for about 2 weeks now and I finally went across to see them today, here are some of my many pics. There were about 20 there and showing well.. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53440661003_8424faa680_h.jpg waxwing colchester 03-0...

Nice set, Andy :thumb: Was the convention anything to do with budgie smugglers? no just some old budgies that don't stop chatting about the most inane subjects :o my wife actually warned me they were coming and suggested I might like to find an excuse to go out for a while - I didn't need asking tw...

probably my last visit to Stansted in 2023 and a nice subject to make it worthwhile, this Moroccan Government B747-8 made a brief visit although the weather wasn't as kind as it could have been, bright sun an hour or so earlier :( here's a couple of my pics: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53427...

I went to Stansted last Saturday for a while to take advantage of some half decent weather and to avoid a 'budgie convention' that my wife had organised with her friends - my brain couldn't have coped with that! Nothing very exciting but got some fresh air before the xmas excesses. https://live.stat...

:lol: - good old Google translate! :blush: Best wishes to all and many thanks to the Team for keeping things running - the most civil of forums (fora?). On a personal note, I am very much looking forward to tomorrow being our granddaughter's first Christmas. Merry Christmas, Ian Sod it! - been rumb...

I can't believe that this thread has had over 9,500 views in just one year, what is going on?!! :o probably Russian Spammers that we didn't filter out! , so for all of them schastlivogo rozhdestva, a teper' idi na khuy For the rest of you, have a very happy christmas and an enjoyable hobby in 2024,...

here's my last POTM entry for 2023! thanks to Paul for running the competition for yet another year (I think it's 10 years now!). a change of entry, I've decided to go with one pics of the Moroccan 747-8 (CN-MBH) at Stansted on 29th December: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53427670105_db7c1d046...

In this competition we've celebrated 20 years of Concorde being retired, this month we have joint winners, LondonEye: G-BOAD in Singapore AL colours at Heathrow https://live.staticflickr.com/4892/46118207441_c62ff329a9_b.jpg Concorde Singapore AL G-BOAD 1 Heathrow and Tomcat14: G-BOAF lining up at H...

Sorry,I was in Italy for a best part of a week so wasn't around to access my PC. I am back in the cold of the UK now so here are the results: we have joint winners, LondonEye: G-BOAD in Singapore AL colours at Heathrow and Tomcat14: G-BOAF lining up at Heathrow on 14 July 1991, well done to both of ...

I entered another photo of thin in this month's SPOTM and whilst I was editing it I decided to do a few more as it's such a lovely beast, here we go: the first two I re-edited: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53396413247_87277d0ae2_h.jpg HB-RSC Super Constellation Breitling Duxford 11-07-2014 94...

some lovely entries so far thanks, here's mine - a collection of stars aka a Constellation :D The superb Breitling Super Constellation HB-RSC taxiing in at Flying Legends (Duxford) on 11-07-2014 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53397526505_a58d3ba70f_h.jpg HB-RSC Super Constellation Breitling Dux...