Birmingham Airport - Video Thread

[Kevin Farnell]

Noisy, smokey coal burners - but I love them! I want them to continue to visit BHX for as long as possible.

 

[pianokeys]

Noisy, smokey coal burners - but I love them! I want them to continue to visit BHX for as long as possible.

BHX should waive the landing fees as they are vintage aircraft !!

 

[JENNYJET]

Yes, bring in the biggies. AN124, IL76 etc maybe AN22?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Etihad B777-300 (A6-ETI) departure from BHX

Credit: Airport Action.

I much prefer this colour scheme over the newer one, with all the strange angled shapes on the tail.

 

[JENNYJET]

I call it the Classic livery, elegant and authoritative, a bit like BA Landor. I agree the current modern Picasso type livery is mindbending.

 

[Scania1800]

Etihad B777-300 (A6-ETI) departure from BHX

Credit: Airport Action.

I much prefer this colour scheme over the newer one, with all the strange angled shapes on the tail.

The new one just feels like a load of triangles stuck together

 

[Karl C]

I like the newish livery. The hard product on the A380 is amazing. Lucky enough to fly in their First Apartments...... certainly has the wow factor

 

[Ray Finkle]

For those who like cranes as well as planes...

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Spotters in the mist

Credit: Airport Action

Aircraft on finals to BHX. The first one to me is the best, the way the Emirates bursts through the clouds. Note the 'streamers' from the outboard tips of the flaps. I've heard some anti-aviation people claim that this is fuel being dumped. This is totally untrue, illegal (except in the case of an extreme emergency) and would be very expensive to the airline (do these people drain their cars fuel tank every time they reach their destination?). What we are seeing, is a vortex of low pressure created by the airflow. The low pressure causes a drop in temperature within the vortex, meaning that the air cannot hold as much water vapour. The result being that the water vapour in the vortex, condenses out into a fog.

 

[JENNYJET]

As I understand it, fuel dumping over land is only permitted under extreme predjudice, i.e. if lives depend upon it. Aviation spirit is highly volatile and toxic and even though it evaporates in the atmospere, some may hit the surface. If over water, it dissolves.

I eagerly awaiting my marks from Mr. Farnell

 

[Brum X]

For those who like cranes as well as planes...

I think I fall into that category ?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

As I understand it, fuel dumping over land is only permitted under extreme predjudice, i.e. if lives depend upon it. Aviation spirit is highly volatile and toxic and even though it evaporates in the atmospere, some may hit the surface. If over water, it dissolves.

I eagerly awaiting my marks from Mr. Farnell

I'll give you a B+. The only point I'd make, is that Jet fuel will not dissolve in water, as it's an oil based product. However, it's likely to be very well dispersed by the time it reaches the sea, so unlikely to create a slick.

 

[JENNYJET]

I accept a B+ from you Sir. I was forgetting that water & oil does not mix. I was thinking of the spirit as in ethanol or alcohol and not the base compounds. I strive to improve. My discipline, Law, is clearly different from the natural sciences.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I think I fall into that category ?

Funnily enough it was you that I had in mind

 

[Garybrum]

Very sad about Flybe. I wonder if any current staff were there when they first went under.
Here is a shot just after the first time, april 2020. note the empty bhx car park due covid lockdown.

 

[Ray Finkle]

View of HS2 whilst departing BHX.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

BHX's runway looks good from the air, but could do with some fast turn-offs. Hopefully, HS2 will be completed. No one bats an eyelid at the Billions being spent on rail in London, but when it's outside of the capital, those who it doesn't benefit are up in arms.

 

[Garybrum]

With the excitement of the a380 hopefully returning to bhx soon I thought I would dig out some cool or unusual shots of it at bhx before covid struck, starting with this toy balloon incident from sheldon park

 

[Garybrum]

The crowd in sheldon park for the A380 arrival with its massive shadow. Gary

 

[JENNYJET]

It always amazes me how quiet that beast is, wonderful stuff.