Expected Movements & Heads Up

[Deleted member 8862]

The first Fokker F27 i saw belonged to EI sometime around 1959/60, now that was a long time ago....

 

[Ryan Kirkpatrick]

Fantastic pics as always Ryan, thanks for posting

Loving the little fokker, not many of them machines left now. I used to remember when i was a little lad (Long time ago ) when these were new aircraft and i used to watch the Air UK Fokker at Sheldon Country park which used to do BHX-Amsterdam 2/3 x daily. Aaaaargh those were the days.

and the mad thing about this one was it was never de-iced. I never seen it move so fast. They called up to ATC to be de-iced but they would of missed there take off slot in 10 minutes time. So they cancalled it had a quick pushback & taxi to the end of 33. if you look wing you can still see a little ice on it.

 

[Brum X]

thank you I remember seeing a Fokker F-27-500 Friendship in Air UK livery while leaving Grand Canaria on a Monarch A321. (Seen here https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-Seven-Air/Fokker-F-27-500-Friendship/1888805)

LPA would be the last place you would expect to see a old Air UK Fokker F-27

 

[Vinny94]

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The last picture of the Helvetic Fokker shows it has such a distinctive shape to it compared to the usual A320s and B737s.
I already miss seeing the KLM F100s flying above my home too.
Great pictures as always Ryan

 

[GliderPilot]

Just a point, if you look at Ryan's great pictures of G-TUIM (A 787-9) and G-TUIA (A 787-8)

You can notice the difference in the length of the fuselage, first the small number of extra windows in front of the wing, and then the larger amount of extra windows behind the wing.

Cool way of realising what differences those aircraft have. I believe the 789 also has an increased range but don't quote me on it.

 

[Vinny94]

Just a point, if you look at Ryan's great pictures of G-TUIM (A 787-9) and G-TUIA (A 787-8)

You can notice the difference in the length of the fuselage, first the small number of extra windows in front of the wing, and then the larger amount of extra windows behind the wing.

Cool way of realising what differences those aircraft have. I believe the 789 also has an increased range but don't quote me on it.

Yes, also the TUI 787-9s have one missing window too. It's how I can differentiate them

 

[rollo]

The first Fokker F27 i saw belonged to EI sometime around 1959/60, now that was a long time ago....

Yes I also remember the Aer Lingus F27s back then didn't they call them "Friendships."

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Yes I also remember the Aer Lingus F27s back then didn't they call them "Friendships."

Yes, the F27 was the 'Friendship' and the F28 was the 'Fellowship'.
I flew on a NLM Cityhopper F28 from AMS to BHX. It's hard to believe that since then another type (F70/F100) has come into service and is now being retired.
By the way, I flew out to AMS on a Netherlines SF340.

Kevin

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Yes, the F27 was the 'Friendship' and the F28 was the 'Fellowship'.
I flew on a NLM Cityhopper F28 from AMS to BHX. It's hard to believe that since then another type (F70/F100) has come into service and is now being retired.
By the way, I flew out to AMS on a Netherlines SF340.

Kevin

I flew on a KLM F28 once in the early to mid 1990s from Amsterdam to Brussels - about half an hour in the air and a full drinks round! The cabin staff understood their priorities. Mind you, there were only 18 passengers on board. In those days I regularly used KLM Cityhopper SF340s between Bristol and Amsterdam.

Sorry to go a-wandering a bit, but things seemed to have changed so quickly (at my age, 25 years is but a blink of the eye).

 

[Ryan Kirkpatrick]

Thank you everyone for liking my photos

 

[Brum X]

Thank you everyone for liking my photos

Your video of the Wamos 747 is awesome Ryan, ive been playing it back to back. You cant get enough of a 747 at BHX (Queen of the skies)

 

[jfy1999]

Sundair A320 D-ASEE departed at 14:47 - FR24 shows it as having arrived from Braunschweig, Germany (an airport which I'll freely admit I'd never heard of before) at 23:06 last night.

 

[thunderchild]

Anyone have any more info on this - BHX departures showing BT7704 Air Baltic to Riga at 23:00?

 

[JENNYJET]

Just speculation so please, no barbed comments.

Titan overnight stopped for a deportation flight which departed this morning. The AirBaltic aircraft also night stopped so I guess it is Eastern European types for repatriation but of course I may be quite wrong.

It could be an innocent Gold shipment or a sports team on a jolly!

 

[Brummiegem]

The Air Baltic was in conjunction with an Ice Hockey match in Birmingham.

 

[flymetothemoon]

So a Jolly Hockey Sicks then

 

[Ray Finkle]

It looks as if Turkmenistan have moved today's LHR flight to Birmingham. The Heathrow website shows it as cancelled with the BHX sire showing an eta of 20:40.

 

[Vinny94]

Well this is kind of odd...
FR24 is showing a Thomas Cook A321 heading to Abu Dhabi, perhaps it's an error or something?

 

[GliderPilot]

Two things I can think of that could be accountable for that

Either a cruise charter for P&O as TUI also do those, or it may be off out there for maintenance

Those are my two best guesses anyway!

 

[Vinny94]

Two things I can think of that could be accountable for that

Either a cruise charter for P&O as TUI also do those, or it may be off out there for maintenance

Those are my two best guesses anyway!

Yeah, those seem likely hypothesises. What's more interesting is that first, the Etihad 787 divert went back to AUH from BHX. Also, today we have a TCX A321 going the same route.
It's interesting these unscheduled flights happen in the same month.