Civilian Aviation

Highlights from a few trips down to Heathrow during February to catch the various special colour schemes on offer and some of the more regular traffic in the clear blue skies.

Aeroflot A330-300 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

EL AL B787-9 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Air Serbia A319 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Icelandair B757-300 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Ethiopian Airlines A350-900 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Singapore Airlines A380-8 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

BOAC Retro (BA) B747-400 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Aer Lingus Retro A320 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Aer Lingus Retro A320 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Brussels Airlines A320 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

United Airlines B767-300ER by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Malaysian Airlines A350-900 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Malaysia Airlines A350-900 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

All in all it's been a good month for knocking off various special schemes in the winter sunshine.

Denis.

That Iceland 757 looks fab

Blue skies, retrojets and banking shots, what's not to like?

That's a great set Dennis, which I must have missed when first posted on Thursday. The EL AL and Icelandair retros were good catches and well photographed.

I've not seen the Ethiopian departing before, is that a new time slot or was it running very late or early!!!

Neil

That a cracking set Dennis

Cessna954 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:17 am

I've not seen the Ethiopian departing before, is that a new time slot or was it running very late or early!!!

Neil

This was on the ET711 which is scheduled for departure at 10:20 on Saturday mornings and 07:55 on Sundays. It doesn't run every week (I note for instance it didn't operate yesterday or today). My shot was on the 24th Feb and it had operated for the three weeks before that. Curiously it also didn't operate the last weekend of January but did in all the preceding weeks.

Thanks all for the kind comments.

Denis.

Some fantastic schemes there, I must try to capture more retros myself, think everyone wants to see that BOAC, although I am looking forward to Landor too.

This was on the ET711 which is scheduled for departure at 10:20 on Saturday mornings and 07:55 on Sundays. It doesn't run every week (I note for instance it didn't operate yesterday or today). My shot was on the 24th Feb and it had operated for the three weeks before that. Curiously it also didn't operate the last weekend of January but did in all the preceding weeks.

Thanks for that info, maybe I'll get lucky and see it on a Saturday visit somethime this spring.

Neil