Civilian Aviation

The weather forecast looked good and the skies at Rayne were almost clear so I made a short journey to Stansted this afternoon expecting some pleasant evening light..................WRONG!!!!!!! the cloud moved in almost as soon as I got there so the expected light didn't happen but I struggled on anyway. got a few on the northside first then onto the mound near the Hilton for 04 arrivals and departures, here are some of them..........

first some heavy cargo carriers....

A7-AFI A.330F Qatar Airways Cargo, Stansted 12-10-2016 1601 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

N606FE MD.11F FedEx, Stansted 12-10-2016 1640 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

PH-MPS B747 Martinair, Stansted 12-10-2016 1669 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

PH-MPS B747 Martinair, Stansted 12-10-2016 1707 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

some northside biz.....
N222NF Ce.525, Stansted 12-10-2016 1563 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

N617JN BD-700 Global Express, Stansted 12-10-2016 1567 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and some biz from the 04 end....
small biz...
CS-PHH Embraer Phenom 300, Stansted 12-10-2016 1635 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

M-JSMN BD-700 Global Express, Stansted 12-10-2016 1581 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

9H-MMM BD-700 Global Express, Stansted 12-10-2016 1625 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

larger biz....
N834BA B.737 BBJ, Stansted 12-10-2016 1727 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

humungous biz...... B.747-8 BBJ A7-HBJ parked on the compass ramp:
A7-HBJ B747-8 BBJ, Stansted 12-10-2016 1574 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

biz mix...
N834BA B.737 BBJ, Stansted 12-10-2016 1733 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and a Qatari convention .......
Qatari convention A7-AFI A.330F & A7-HBJ B.747-8 BBJ, Stansted 12-10-2016 1610 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

there are a few more in my flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125470545 ... 249899356/

C&C welcome, thanks for looking

andy

Great shots thanks for posting. The 747-8 is one heck of a biz-jet!
One question for you - perhaps it's me being unobservant (and we dont get any A330's into Humberside!) but dont recall seeing the bubble round the nosewheel of the Qatar A330F before. Is that a feature of the freighter version?

250canam wrote:Great shots thanks for posting. The 747-8 is one heck of a biz-jet!
One question for you - perhaps it's me being unobservant (and we dont get any A330's into Humberside!) but dont recall seeing the bubble round the nosewheel of the Qatar A330F before. Is that a feature of the freighter version?

All the Qatar aircraft have the nosewheel bubble and I assumed it's a freighter only modification. I hadn't looked into it before but just did some googling and found this: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ar-211629/ which confirms it is to simplify loading on the 330F.
so we have both learnt something this morning!!!

thanks for the comment

andy

Thanks for the explanation Andy. All makes sense now!