Civilian Aviation

Had a weekend down at Heathrow on the off chance of some good winter light and nice westerly ops to view from the Renaissance Hotel.

Didn't happen - got snow, gloom and easterlies so had to brave the freezing cold on the Thistle Hotel Viewing Deck.

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Not surprised de-icing was under way
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The "on runway shots" such as this 747-800 are from my room at The Renaissance
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Back at The Thistle - this A380 approaches 9Left in a snow flurry
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sun did appear on the day I flew home - but still a lot of murk about
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Sat on a BA A320 ready for departure and managed a few sunny shots thanks to a nice clean window
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Big fellow behind us as we begin the take off roll on 09Right
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T3
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Thanks for looking
Regards Bat 21

super set Nigel, to many good ones to pick a favourite. hope you didn't get too cold at the Thistle

thanks for posting them

andy

Shame about the wx, but still good shots. Some interesting aircraft too, e.g. the Swiss 777 and the lovely Air China special.

Great set

Very nice indeed.

VERY nice.
i'm still editing my heathrow shots from last may!

Yeah nice set the take-off looking down on the tower pick of the bunch for me, the landing shot of the Singapore A-380 was that taken from the car park levels at T5 ??

Thanks for the comments folks - the landing Singapore A380 was taken from on-board a BA plane just after we had pushed back from T5 and started engines.