SPOTM October 2022, any wide body Airbus

[andygolfer]

This is the SPOTM (Special Photo Of The Month) competition for October 2022 celebrating a very significant anniversary from 1972, The Airbus A300 first flew on 28th October, the first Airbus airliner and first twin engine wide body , to make it a bit easier the subject will be any Airbus wide body airliner.

The subject of your entry should be a photo of one or more civilian registered wide body Airbus airliner. It can be active, retired, preserved or just abandoned. If it is a former military aircraft it must have a civilian registration at the time the photo was taken.

Photography Competition Rules :-

1. Only one entry per user, unless posting on behalf of another person who is unable to do so themselves (children for example). If this is the case, please state so on your entry..

2. The photo may have been taken on any date, it does not have to be taken in the month of the competition

3. The image can be photo-shopped to some extent, levels changes, cropping, sharpening etc. are all acceptable. The photograph must retain it’s initial subject though, don’t make it something it’s not. HDR images are not acceptable. If you are unsure, please PM a moderator.

4. The competition will remain open until 23.59 (UK time) on the 7th November 2022 - please note the extended closing date to enable anyone with a last minute photo plenty of time to prepare their entry.

5. Voting will be conducted by a poll open to all the membership shortly after the closure of the competition.

6. 'Rule 6...' There's no rule 6, Bruce'

7. The decision of the moderating team is final.

8. All images must be posted in line with the usual CA posting rules (size etc.), please read them if you're not sure how to post.

9. The rules may be subject to change, and these will be posted on this thread.

10. Please also embed the images and not links to images, if you're not sure how to do it then shout up and someone will sort it out. It is permissible to change your entry before the closing date.

11. Do not comment on other member's photos.

12. A brief description of where and when the image was taken would be nice too.

If you have any questions please PM me
Andy

[waghorn41]

Airbus A300B4-103, OO-TEG, of TEA at Kai Tak in 1976.
TEA Airbus OO-TEG by Ian Pursey, on Flickr

[acw367]

A6-EVD Airbus A380-842 Emirates Airline Heathrow 5 January 2022

A6-EVD Heathrow 5 January 2022 by ACW367, on Flickr

Enjoy ACW367

[LondonEye]

A330XL Beluga at Fairford this year.
Pete.

A330XL Airbus F-WBXL 9 Fairford

[Mike s]

Emirates A380- 861 Landing runway 09L from DXB
A6-EOH LHR 2.7.19 by Mike stanners, on Flickr

[tomcat14]

Emirates A380 A6-EDU landing at London Heathrow on 25 June 2015.

IMG_9230a by wokinghampaul, on Flickr


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wokinghampaul

[andygolfer]

here's mine, 9M-MNA A380 of Malaysian Airlines banking away from Heathrow on 8th August 2018, sadly a sight we don't see any more.

9M-MNA A380 Malaysian Airlines Heathrow 08-08-2018 1255 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

good luck everybosy

andy

[BringBackEGDG]

Airbus A330-343 VQ-BQZ of Aeroflot landing Tenerife-Sur 4th January 2020. Wonder if and when we see these back at Heathrow?

2020-01-04-067FD VQ-BQZ by Stephen Rendle, on Flickr

[Rainton20]

Virgin A340-600 G-VWEB departing Heathrow in March 2019.

G-VWEB A340-642 by Ian Tate, on Flickr

[PorkScratching]

A350-941 being flown in spirited style at the 2016 Farnborough airshow:


Airbus A350-941 by Nick Challoner, on Flickr

[niallsaviation]

TC-ACE by Niall Moran, on Flickr

[EGNH1909]

G-VGBR Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 with an early morning arrival on runway 05R at Manchester on 7 June 2018.
G-VGBR by Peter Rowe, on Flickr
Best Wishes.
Pete.

[Polehill]

OO-ABA A340-313 Air Belgium LHR on August 27, 2019

OO-ABA A340-313 Air Belgium LHR by Michael Rourke, on Flickr

Good luck everyone.

[Paultojo]

G-XLEF A380 British Airways at Shannon by Paul Harvey, on Flickr

Crew training at Shannon last November

[Mike]

Oh no, not another of Mike's St Maarten photos!............................

F-GLZU A340 of Air France about to depart SXM in July 2008

[Paul Zietsman]

My entry, taken at Birmingham in November 2018.

463A3417 Emirates A380 Birmingham 2018 by Paul Zietsman, on Flickr

[wiggy]

I'll go with an IFly A330 at Antalya September 2014.

Ifly Airlines A330-300 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Denis.

[andygolfer]

entries are now closed for this competition, the voting poll is now open here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=44967
thanks to everybody who has entered
Andy