How can you not love meteorology? Gibraltarโs levanter. Created by easterly winds from the warm sea being forced up by the rock and condensing. Never seen it as well formed as this. โฐ๐ฌ๐ฎ
@sommervilletv
Once again hard hitting, but frontline journalism at its best Quentin. Hard (but important) to watch from the comfort of home. Credit and huge respect to you and colleagues with you. Wish you safety out there doing your job.
Near miss? Not even close. Just very lucky with my aspect. RAF Airbus KC2 Voyager inbound to Brize at 24,000ft with a KLM Boeing 777-200 in the background at 39,000ft inbound to Amsterdam from Guayaquil (Ecuador).
@RAFBrizeNorton
@RoyalAirForce
@KLM
@KLM_UK
@AirbusDefence
August ... The one and only Antonov 225 โMriyaโ called into global service to assist with Covid-19 PPE supplies. An amazing sight from the back garden. Only one was built and itโs the biggest aircraft on the planet. A stunning aeroplane.
@AntonovCompany
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#An225
Grabbing the camera quickly to just catch
@Ryanair
flight FR663 Boeing 737-800 crossing the moon enroute to
@DublinAirport
from Birmingham this morning.
@bhx_official
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As overflights go this is the ultimate one. Antonov Airlines AN225 Mriya (Dream). The largest aircraft in the world and the only one. Originally built to carry the Russian space shuttle Buran, now used for outside cargo. Prestwick - Chateauroux.
@AntonovCompany
#AN225
#Antonov
A very special piece of aeroplane. This one time Jet2 Boeing 737-300 was the first jet aircraft I flew 16 years ago. Now saved as a priceless possession with immense thanks to
@Air_Salvage
. On to
#ProjectLI
๐จ๐ง(Picture of me landing her thanks to Jid Webb)
Fantastic wide angle capture of our departure from
#Gibraltar
today with an impressive Levanter cloud over the Rock. Huge credit to
@mi6o25
for this. Check out his YouTube channel ๐ฌ๐ฎโฐ๏ธ (Thanks to
@MeteoGib
for the weather updates!) Nice pic hey
@easyJet
?๐
The last departure of a
@VirginAtlantic
Boeing 747-400 from Manchester left a soggy Runway 23R this morning heading to Tel Aviv, possibly for freighter conversion. G-VXLG โRuby Tuesdayโ. Farewell to a once familiar sight. Bye Ruby ๐ฌ๐ง
@manairport
#Boeing747
#VirginAtlantic
#QOTS
Manchester City themed Etihad Airways Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner A6-BND visiting itโs spiritual home of Manchester. Lots of blue!
@etihad
@manairport
@BoeingUK
To plan a photo and then better it. Special trip to get this one and got lucky. Inbound to
@manairport
from Dubai carrying evacuees from Afghanistan, this picture makes my No.2 of 2021. Hopefully a brighter future for all.
@AirbusintheUK
#Avgeektopten
@flyethiopian
#A350
Didnโt realise at the time the significance of seeing this beautiful Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 inbound to Manchester earlier today. My genuine heartfelt best wishes to friends and colleagues and the wonderful Virgin Atlantic staff ๐๐
#virginatlantic
@VirginAtlantic
For anyone that visited
@Gatwick_Airport
in the late 1980โs/early 90โs this is a classic shot from the viewing balcony. How many different airlines and types can fit in one picture? (Having just found these photos from storage I might post more if thereโs interest).
Horsepower! Number 6 in my best photographs of the year is
@etihad
โs Boeing 787-10 โGreenlinerโ. In a year dominated by thoughts of climate change and sustainability, this aircraft is used to test green technologies such as sustainable alternative fuels.
#Avgeektopten
@manairport
The best ever! Taken from the
@HeathrowAirport
Queens Building viewing terrace circa 1988.
#Concorde
wore special heat reflecting white paint instead of
@British_Airways
blue on the fuselage. At high speed the skin reached in excess of 100C & the aircraft expanded by 7 inches๐ฌ๐ง๐ซ๐ท
First snowfall of the winter here in Cheshire. Good time for a throwback to my previous airline and the very enjoyable โSantaโ Lapland flights. This was taken on a day stop in Kittilรค, Finland where the temperature was a cool -25C.๐ซ๐ฎ
#Airbus
#Kittila
#Lapland
#aviationphotography
After
@DaveWallsworth
calculated that it would take an Airbus
#A380
367 hours to fly to the
#moon
, hereโs one of his
@British_Airways
Boeing 777 colleagues already there! BA049 G-YMMJ Heathrow - Seattle pictured over Cheshire on Thursday. ๐๐ฌ๐ง
Might be an empty position flight but donโt think Iโve ever been so pleased to see a bit of orange in the skies departing Manchester. Stay safe everyone ๐
@easyJet
@manairport
0929z today enroute to Gibraltar the milestone of 10,000 flight hours in the logbook. Thatโs 417 days of flying!! Loved every minute (well ... most) โ๏ธ (credit to all of the great photographers that have captured some of that time)
Closer shot of Lufthansa Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11F. Aircraft is at least 7-8 miles away in this shot. Atmosphere very clear recently.
@lufthansa
@Lufthansa_USA
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#MD11
Finals at Corfu on British Midland Airbus A321 G-MIDM. Prior to flying I worked in operations control and this was one of several jump seat trips kindly offered by the crews. The airline would eventually offer me a training course which started my flying career.
25 years ago today the first
@easyJet
flight (a leased Boeing 737-200) departed from Luton airport to Glasgow. Last year the airline safely carried over 96 million passengers. Proud to have been part of this great airline for the last decade. ๐
#easyJet
@AirbusintheUK
Last flight before retirement for one of our finest captains and a wonderful friend here at
@easyJet
๐๐ฅ A big thank you to
@MT_Aviation
for the footage. You guys are legends ๐๐ป
Some oldies here. My passion for flying was driven largely by this airline. Watching them taking their holidaymakers to the sun from my local airport created a desire of โI really want to do thatโ. Even in tough times never give up on your dreams.
@EMA_Airport
#Britannia
#Boeing
Wishing everyone here a very happy new year. Thank you for following and hope the tweets/pictures are of interest. Hereโs my personal favourite two pictures of 2019. (Just have to try and better them in 2020!!).
#moon
#boeing
#airbus
@BoeingUK
@Airbus
Landing into the
@manairport
sunshine from Athens this afternoon. Thanks to the
@airlinerslive
team for the footage. Some special visitors in today which you can watch back on their show. ๐๐ป