Civilian Aviation

Blue Thursday bertainly held more appeal than black Friday - I've been bonstantly getting e-mails with 'black Friday' deals all week but for me a nice day with blue skies was far preferable so yesterday after a bouple of hours at Stansted it was off to London Bityfor just under 4 hours (minimum bar park time) to make the most of the winter sunshine, lots of LHR inbounds as well so quite a busy time!
here's a selection of the bomings and goings:
coming:
HB-JBG Bombardier CS100 Swiss Airlines London City 23-11-2017 0242 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr
going!..
HB-JBG Bombardier CS100 Swiss Airlines London City 23-11-2017 0523 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

Luxair with a shrubbery background!
LX-LGN Bombardier Dash8-400 Luxair London City 23-11-2017 9980 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

HB-JVR Emb.190 Helvetic London City 23-11-2017 0391 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

another new building for LCY backgrounds in the making - at least it hides the wires a bit
OO-VLI Fokker 50 VLM, London City 23-11-2017 9994 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

PH-EZZ Emb.190 KLM London City 23-11-2017 0532 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

PH-EZZ Emb.190 KLM London City 23-11-2017 0305 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

VQ-BSN Falcon 7X London City 23-11-2017 0642 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

VQ-BSN Falcon 7X London City 23-11-2017 0865 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

CS=DRX Hawker Beechcraft 125-800 London City 23-11-2017 0917 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

EI-RJW BAe.146 CityJet London City 23-11-2017 0095 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

EI-RNE Emb.190 Alitalia London City 23-11-2017 0067 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

F-HMOD Falcon 7X London City 23-11-2017 0732 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

F-HMOD Falcon 7X London City 23-11-2017 0744 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

tried to get one appearing perched on the roof but didn't quite manage it:
G-LCYE Emb.170 British Airways CityFlyer London City 23-11-2017 0359 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

brane archway:
G-LCYU Emb.190 British Airways CityFlyer London City 23-11-2017 0313 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-PRPA Bombardier Dash8-400 London City 23-11-2017 0814 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-SUEJ Emb. Legacy 500 London City 23-11-2017 0551 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

HB-IZB Saab 2000 Skywork Airlines London City 23-11-2017 0038 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and finally caption time- 'let's taxi to the edge of the roof to see what the view's like, STOPPPPP!' too late!
G-CIEC Saab 2000 Eastern Airways London City 23-11-2017 0611 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

plenty more in my flickr album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125470545 ... 895926064/
thanks for looking, B&B welcome
Andy

A cracking set Andy, in particular I like the dash 8, the Falcon 7 touching down and the EMB 190 framed by the cranes. Excellent

Beautiful shots, lovely blue skies

Very nice.
Your 150-600mm really makes a difference.
Cheers
Pete.

Lovely set

Nice and sharp in great light

Andy, it appears that your "C" key on your keyboard isn't working properly, why not use the letter "K" instead?

Mike wrote:Andy, it appears that your "C" key on your keyboard isn't working properly, why not use the letter "K" instead?

Oh! I'd never thought of that what a silly Kameraman

A very nice set. Have yet to visit LCY so would be interested to learn where you took these from.

King Cobra wrote:A very nice set. Have yet to visit LCY so would be interested to learn where you took these from.

I used the long stay car park, It's now £23 for 4 hours minimum stay unfortunately, first time I went you could stay for 2 hours for £8 but it keeps getting a bit more expensive unfortunately. It's handy to have the car there to sit in when it's cold though and there were 2 of us to share the cost so not too bad.

andygolfer wrote:

King Cobra wrote:A very nice set. Have yet to visit LCY so would be interested to learn where you took these from.

I used the long stay car park, It's now £23 for 4 hours minimum stay unfortunately, first time I went you could stay for 2 hours for £8 but it keeps getting a bit more expensive unfortunately. It's handy to have the car there to sit in when it's cold though and there were 2 of us to share the cost so not too bad.

Thanks for the info. Presume they must be ok with photography from that location.

yes. often see the groundstaff around and they just say 'hello'.

it's fairly popular but not as much as Myrtle Avenue. I used to use Cains Lane as i preferred that to Myrtle Ave but that is now restricted for permit parking. you can see across the airport from Cains Lane (and Myrtle) so I suppose they are handier for spotters.

andygolfer wrote:yes. often see the groundstaff around and they just say 'hello'.

it's fairly popular but not as much as Myrtle Avenue. I used to use Cains Lane as i preferred that to Myrtle Ave but that is now restricted for permit parking. you can see across the airport from Cains Lane (and Myrtle) so I suppose they are handier for spotters.

Thanks again. Ladders needed for runway shots or not?

no not required, you lose the bottom half of the wheels at some points along the runway but you'd need a very high ladder to get round that!

excellent shots and a better day then i had down there
mark