Down Bristol Docks

Whilst fishing down Baltic Wharf, Bristol Docks

The Matthew replica passed by on engine power

with a cargo of school children,

singing 

"What shall we do with the drunken sailor."

 Very nice.

Filton 29-09-11

Bristol Airport 27-09-11

As well as the usual diet of

Eazy Jets.

G-EZFY departing at 12.32 as EZY613T

 and Ryan Air.
EI-ENM departing as RYR9HF at 13.04

 Pick of the day for me were

City Jet BAe 146

EI-RJT departing at 12.40 as AFR217W

 Falcon 900 D-AMIG Arriving as
Red Angel 4297 at 10.37.

 Blue Island J-31 G-JIBO
arriving at 10.11 as BCI 426

 and Air Malta A-320 9H-AEN
departing as AMC 5239 at 10.30

Filton 26-09-11

The Grizzly is still around

and staying till Friday.

EC-404 arriving after fuel tests at 12.39.

 Watch out for A380 on Thursday

Due to carry out two flights at 12.00 and 15.00

then departs at 17.00.

Also training today was this EC-135 G-SPHU as

Readhead 72 at 11.27.

 Apron 1 has TBM 750 LX-JFL

 and PA-32 N88NA

A400M at last

Having waited since Monday for this beasty

it finally arrived this afternoon at 14.30 ish.

A400M

EC-404

Just enough light

Arriving at 18.49 was this

Challenger 604

LX-KRC

as Flying Lux62K

Deprted as Fling Lux 64K

at 19.12.

Abbey Wood 21-09-11

Bored waiting for the Grissley

I popped over to the Wood to catch

the hush hush train.

37069

 and 37038

 made a great sound up the bank

Filton 21-09-11

Whilst waiting for a no show

A-400M

This AS-355

G-WDKR 

carried out a go round. 

Filton Hawks 20-09-11

Three HS Hawks T1 A

visited Apron 1 this morning.

XX220 (220)

 XX202 (CF)

 XX280 (CM)

Filton Abbey Wood 19-09-11

Whilst waiting for a steam engine

66560 passed at 10.03 

towards Cardiff

 Heading south at 10.04 was this Tamper

DR73111

 Light engine movement

66615

heading south at 09.54

 Emergency engineering work to a track fault

had caused major disruption to all lines through

Abbey Wood during the  rush hour.

Some trains over an hour late.

That's why the above movements

were so close together.

This South West Trains 158

158881

was around 30 minutes down

on its way to Great Malvern

at 09.18.

Filton 19-09-11

Falcon 2000 D-BIKA

on the Beluga stand

having arrived as BVR777.

Filton 16-09-11 12.30

Just the one today

Aerostar N69LP

Filton 15-09-11 14.00 - 14.30

Five training flights in half an hour.

Departing at 14.00 was

TB-20 Trinidad

G-CDDA

 Landing  to take its place on apron 1 was

fellow TB-20 G-CDDT

arriving at 14.03

Royal Air Force Squirrel 

ZJ271 

departing at 14.19 as SYS 38

 Tutor G-BYWE 

from Colerne

going round at 14.23 as UAD 01.

 Departing as LIMA 01 was

Tucano

ZF348

at 14.24

Filton Abbey Wood 14-09-11

On the Bridgewater to Crewe 6M67 today were

 37618

 and 36218

Filton 14-09-11

Net Jets Citation 560XLS

CS-DRF

resting in the sunshine on apron 4

Two French aircraft at Filton 13-09-11

PC-12 F-HANN

on apron 1 

at 18.30

 While on the Beluga stand WAS

Falcon  20E F-GOPM

Filton 09-09-11

Carrying out a touch and go at 13.22

was PA-34 G-GAFA

as CSE56 from Oxford Kidlington airfield.

 Arriving at 13.25 as CEG836

was Be 200 G-CEGR

on a medivac flight.

 In this photo of G-CEGR

the PA-34 G-GAFA

can be seen in the circuit in the bottom left hand corner.

Yellow HST.09-09-11

Track recording HST

Passing Patchway at 11.42

on its way to Derby.

Filton 07-09-11

Training today were

PA-34 G-ELIS as Brunel 11

at 12.05.

With PA-34 G-CAHA at 15.35

as Aeros 58.

Be 200 G-CDFY departed

at 15.55 as Vickers 7.

AS350BB Squirrel HT1

ZJ270

was on the south east H.

I like the PC12 and

N209PB

was on apron 1.

 Citation 510 EC-LCX

also on apron

arrived at 15.45ish as DNC133.