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| Friday evening at stansted |
Author: gazpode_l 70 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation  | Date 07-10-10 17:06 |
After more than a week of planning and an aborted visit last weekend, I finally had opportunity to visit my local airport (EGSS/STN) for a bit
of "BIG Bird Watching".
Unless I'm doing it from my pc in the virtual sense, I don't really go into the sort of detail like an average spotter does, where they have
goals to see and photograph every plane in an airline's fleet. - NO! I'm just a casual spotter who enjoys watching the aircraft movement
and occasionally likes to lookup where an aircraft has been to..
the first part of my visit I spent between 7:30-8:00pm there and watched a german-wings arrival splitting the regular easyjet/ryanair
movements.
There was an air-atlas plane due to go but I didn't see this on my first visit.
Returning later my patience throughout the first fifteen minutes after 9pm was rewarded as I watched a familiar looking easyjet craft taxi
onto Rwy23...Internet research later confirms that it was indeed reg no: G-ZAPX, the titan-air wet-lease boeing 757, flying easyjet colors.
He was actually runing around 55 minutes late - unknown reason.
Next up was a sister titan-airways craft, looked like a 737-500, but didn't have binno's with me to spot the tail on this one and it didn't show
up on the flightstats page.
Finally I see a fedex MD11/DC10 depart into the late evening sky with one of a racket! My oh my they are noisy for a non military, non
afterburning engine!!
I really enjoyed my visit and next time I plan to go back with fully charged batteries in my camera (DOH - found both my sets of batteries
were empty!) and also my pair of binno's!
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| Re: Friday evening at stansted |
Author: Joeflyer 7790 Posts Status: Living Legend  | Date 07-30-10 16:52 |
Too bad you don't have pics.....of course I see the multitudes of FedEx aircraft landing and departing just outside of my office window
every day 
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