Blue Thursday at London bity 23-11-2017

[andygolfer]

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

[Polehill]

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

[jonf45]

Beautiful shots, lovely blue skies

[LondonEye]

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

[Paultojo]

Lovely set

[AlanP]

Nice and sharp in great light

[Mike]

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

[andygolfer]

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

[King Cobra]

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

[andygolfer]

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.

[King Cobra]

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.

[andygolfer]

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.

[King Cobra]

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?

[andygolfer]

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!

[AirbusA320]

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