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I've seen a coupe of times now on flightradar24 a French registered 757, that when clicked on, the picture shows a 757 in BA livery. What's that all about ?. Also interesting to see the BA A380 on another link earlier, big black circle on nose looks like the 737/757 used to have......never did find out why that was either
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TAT, yes... Yellow F-27s and F-28s, and back in the 70s, Beech 99s into Gatwick, along with Air Alpes... Oh and TAT has the VFW614s as well... Sorry, we should be over on Nostalgia...!
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Proberly the painted one [if it was painted ]was damaged and this is a replacement ,it will not be painted in the company colours till the next airplane repaint or the next major overhaul.
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Mate, you are 31 yrs old, you have a computer and internet connection, a selection of browsers and search engines - do we have to Google that for you & say 'yes' (As in invented). With regard in use what stipulations do you have...?
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Heathrow low visibility landing rate upped as microwave landing system goes fully operational
I remember it going live quite recently, hence my question. Most of the B757s before G-CPEM delivered in 1997 had the black ring on the nose. G-BIKK and G-BNWB had test noses but that's not the same thing. If MLS was in use commercially on the BA network from 1997 then that's news to me.
I don't understand this sentence, can you rephrase please? Ideally in English.
I don't think MLS explains why all these aircraft had black rings in the mid to late 1990s, I could be wrong, but it seems odd.
Also, was MLS fitted across the B737-200 fleet? They were on the verge of retirement yet all had the nose, indeed the noses were swapped about a fair bit too.
Photos: Boeing 737-236/Adv Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
I remember it going live quite recently, hence my question. Most of the B757s before G-CPEM delivered in 1997 had the black ring on the nose. G-BIKK and G-BNWB had test noses but that's not the same thing. If MLS was in use commercially on the BA network from 1997 then that's news to me.
With regard in use what stipulations do you have...?
I don't think MLS explains why all these aircraft had black rings in the mid to late 1990s, I could be wrong, but it seems odd.
Also, was MLS fitted across the B737-200 fleet? They were on the verge of retirement yet all had the nose, indeed the noses were swapped about a fair bit too.
Photos: Boeing 737-236/Adv Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
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I know for a fact that in the mid 1990's one of the AirUK Fokker 100's (G-UKFF I think) had an MLS receiver installed for data gathering. There was no indication to the crew that it was there but every time the aircraft flew into Schiphol using rwy 06 the system gathered data from the experimental MLS system on that runway.
I would assume that BA were doing a similar thing with a variety of aircraft at Heathrow.
I would assume that BA were doing a similar thing with a variety of aircraft at Heathrow.
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