Birmingham Airport - Video Thread

[Ray Finkle]

This is good - Birmingham on Lockdown

Never seen Brindleyplace so quiet

Has the entire city centre become pedestrian only, excepting trams?

New St and High St have been for a while and I think Corporation Street may now be tram only aside from delivery vehicles.

I'm not sure what's going to happen with Broad Street once the works are done?

 

[JENNYJET]

Never thought I would become a tourist to the city of my birth, I used to know all the back passages around New Street, Town Hall side, towards the Cathedral, I could witter on but Birmingham appears to have become sterile, I am saddened.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Something a little different to brighten up a dull afternoon. I can't believe it's been six years.

Over the years I can remember seeing DC-10's from Continental, Airtours/MyTravel, JMC, Monarch and, as a child, Wardair.

I'm sure there must be others.

 

[JENNYJET]

Best airplane, it got me into the hobby and BHX. Thank you Sir Raymond.

 

[Brum X]

Never seen Brindleyplace so quiet



New St and High St have been for a while and I think Corporation Street may now be tram only aside from delivery vehicles.

I'm not sure what's going to happen with Broad Street once the works are done?

Just buses and trams

 

[rollo]

Something a little different to brighten up a dull afternoon. I can't believe it's been six years.

Over the years I can remember seeing DC-10's from Continental, Airtours/MyTravel, JMC, Monarch and, as a child, Wardair.



The first DC10 to BHX was a Laker aircraft on November 30th 1972 to operate a demonstration flight for tour operators, CP air also operated to Toronto for a while.

The info is buried in the BHX website.

 

[Brummiegem]

My first and second flight was on a C47 Dakota. The first was Air Atlantique operated G-AMPY from Coventry when they did pleasure flights.The Warwickshire countryside is nothing short of beautiful and if anyone gets the chance to see it from the air,then take it,you will not be disappointed.We flew over Warwick and the castle as well as Stratford and Coventry city centre.
The second was from Luxembourg of all places.My uncle and me were on a short European coach tour of some airports.The 3 Paris area airports,Luxembourg,Düsseldorf,Cologne/Bonn,Frankfurt,Brussels and Ostend.
The C47 from LUX was LX-DKT.Unfortunately the weather for our stay in Luxembourg was very cloudy so we didn’t actually see much from the air,but we were lucky to fly at all as it was foggy for the rest of the time.
My next flight,and probably more relevant to this current thread subject was from LGW to Minneapolis(MSP),in a Northwest DC10-40.It was an experience i’ll never forget as most of the time my eyes were staring out of the window.We flew a northerly track over Greenland and Canada,seeing a lot white underneath us,not clouds either as the skies were clear and being February,very cold and icy.The one memory I have of this flight was that we were delayed at LGW,because despite the cold weather,the aircraft was too heavy.Some freight had to be removed before we could take off.I thought that sort of thing only happened at BHX in the summer before the runway was extended.We also flew DC10-40s on a couple of domestic flights as well as on the way home from DTW(Detroit) back to LGW.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

I just found this on YouTube. A West Atlantic ATP making a scary landing on R33 at BHX.

Credit to Flugsnug for the video

Kevin

 

[Creguk]

Something a little different to brighten up a dull afternoon. I can't believe it's been six years.

Over the years I can remember seeing DC-10's from Continental, Airtours/MyTravel, JMC, Monarch and, as a child, Wardair.

I'm sure there must be others.

Great video. What a plane! Noisy beast. I have fond memories flying on a monarch DC10 to florida when I was 15. As we boarded the plane, we were all greeted with a strong toilet smell. A number 2! Turned out one of the toilets was blocked and as a result we had a healthy delay. There's something great about a delay when you love planes. The rest of the family weren't impressed as we arrived in Florida in the dark and got lost in the car. Great memories!

 

[Nethercote2019]

I just found this on YouTube. A West Atlantic ATP making a scary landing on R33 at BHX.

Credit to Flugsnug for the video

Thanks that’s amazing.... Well done flugsnug for filming, it just shows how tough the ATP undercarriage is, I think a Dash 8 May of not got away with this. There is video of the first attempt to land & that didn’t go to plan either with a touch & swerve& go !
I can’t wait to see this in paper
‘ hundreds of lives at risk as jet Crash lands on grass’
or something....

 

[Brum X]

The landing of that cargo ATP looks very serious indeed. It isn’t normal practice to come off the runway and then continue on the grass. As you say imagine if that was a Flybe dash 8 or an Aer Lingus ATR ?

 

[jfy1999]

They’re fortunate that they didn’t hit any runway lights or signs!

 

[Ianbutty]

I just found this on YouTube. A West Atlantic ATP making a scary landing on R33 at BHX.

Credit to Flugsnug for the video

Kevin

Flippin' heck? Sure that was real or a video of my last performance on Flight Simulator? What a landing.

 

[Brum X]

Not only is Covid-19 tearing our airports and airlines apart it is also having a massive effect on lots of people's lives.

News such as this is another reminder of this wretched pandemic.

Blake Edgington - Airborne

ANNOUNCEMENT 2020 has so far been a year that none of us could have foreseen and certainly a challenging year for everyone. At the start of 2020 my YouTube c...

www.youtube.com

 

[Ray Finkle]

Not only is Covid-19 tearing our airports and airlines apart it is also having a massive effect on lots of people's lives.

News such as this is another reminder of this wretched pandemic.

Blake Edgington - Airborne

ANNOUNCEMENT 2020 has so far been a year that none of us could have foreseen and certainly a challenging year for everyone. At the start of 2020 my YouTube c...

www.youtube.com

I generally quite enjoyed his flight reviews and of course he did a fair few from Birmingham, including one that I was on

Very sad indeed but totally understandable given the circumstances

 

[Ray Finkle]

HIFLY A330-941.

Wish I'd managed to see it.

 

[Brum X]

We should be seeing that bird more regular thanks to PIA, lol

 

[Ray Finkle]

A short clip of some drone footage over BHX.

Heartbreaking to see the car parks so empty

 

[Kevin Farnell]

A short clip of some drone footage over BHX.

Heartbreaking to see the car parks so empty

Drones near an airport

Never seen the car park so empty.

Kevin

 

[Brum X]

Also I was watching a video last night of a trip between BHX-Skiathos with TUI last week and I still find it weird to see Ryanair parked at the main pier and the old Eurohub not being used for any flights at the moment

But its the same all over Europe, at BCN Ryanair/Easyjet/Vueling all share the same terminal that Vueling use. The older Lo-cost terminal is out of use at the moment.