Civilian Aviation

The first ever A380 at Cardiff was a 9am arrival on Monday morning. I couldn't miss it. I just couldn't.


It chased the KLM over from Kent;

DSC_0225 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr

At least one person shouted "there it is!" whilst pointing at a Fokker 70. They soon realised their mistake when this happened;

DSC_0243 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr


DSC_0246 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr

It went on a little taxi tour of the airport, parking on Stand 6 for a short while;

DSC_0267 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr

And then moved over to the BAMC, who had a new towbar according to some of the very observant locals;

DSC_0285 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr


DSC_0286 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr


DSC_0298 by djwilliams1990, on Flickr

Thanks for looking. Not entirely enamoured as to how some of these have come out, they seemed okay on the laptop but on flickr they're not so good. If anyone can see anything I may have missed or has any tips or pointers, fire away. If not, cheers anyway

Lovely shots The head on is nice and the side view of it being towed really emphasises the size of this machine! Thanks for sharing

Yes, very nice indeed and another vote for the head-on shot.

It's a long time since I was last at Cardiff; 1975 to be exact!!

Excellent shots, especially the head-on.

Yes, number 5 gets my vote. It just shows the enormity of the lady.

John.

The head on is a cracker and there's something about #1 too.

Thanks all for the kind comments!

DCK, you're not missing much to be honest!!

Flour Power, I like the first one as well, happy with how the clouds came out and the perspective of big chasing small. I like to think it tells the start of the story quite well!