| After a break of several months, and a break from chasing steam locos and diesels around, it was back to the airport at Manchester again, this time in bright sunlight for a change. The reason for the visit this time was partly to visit the first ever "Under the wings of Concorde" Aviation & Transport Enthusiasts Fair at the new Concorde Conference Centre at the Aviation Viewing Park there, and as billed it really did take place underneath this beautiful and sadly no longer flying aircraft.
Before the event though, it was off to the southern side of Runway 23 Left, since that was in use that morning, and the Sun was in the prefect position for taking pictures of the aircraft lifting off from there. After about 11am when the aircraft switched back to using Runway 23 Right for take offs, we then visited the Transport Fair and I took a number of shots of the vintage buses, Airport Fire Tender, and the old and venerable RAF 'Green Goddess', before spending some time on the viewing park's 'mound' photographing the newly landed aircraft as they taxied in to the terminals. Later on it was back over the 'other side' again, so take a few more shots of aircraft taking off from 23 Right. The shots of the Fire tenders and buses will be found in the appropriate galleries ('Bus & Coach', and 'Emergency Vehicle' Galleries) as soon as I can get them uploaded there, so do check those if you would like to see what they look like. Lots of interesting aircraft types seen, notable ones were the Virgin Jumbo, the Pakistani 777, and several impressive liveries from Abu Dhabi and the Emirates. Also amongst the many European scheduled services were a lot of Easy Jet and Jet2.com "Chav Chariots", which were no doubt transporting many of the local hoodies, chavs and chavesses off to the Costas for 10 days of sunburn, lager, egg & chips and unprotected sex! 
All in all a very enjoyable day, and as per usual I took way too many pictures, but when the light is that good you just have to sit back and enjoy it don't you! |
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