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Old 30th Sep 2007, 20:24
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Good one, AlanM.
Looks as if the first span of the temp hangar is already underway.
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Old 30th Sep 2007, 21:28
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Hangar looked fairly complete from where I saw it. I wasn't paying too much attention to it when I landed but we had a reasonable view of it at Holding point A. Saw it on Sat ~12:30 local.
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Old 30th Sep 2007, 23:00
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AlanM

How did you take that photograph, esp with that crosswind?????
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Old 2nd Oct 2007, 10:21
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LCY North

The latest London Airport....

Why should the cross wind affect the camera.?

But a great shot.

Thanks
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Old 2nd Oct 2007, 21:05
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Jeez.

That shot makes the runway at LCY look HUUUUUUUGGGEE!

And it isn't.

Nice to see the eastern apron extension progressing at such a rate.

cc
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Old 2nd Oct 2007, 22:14
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Gulfstreamaviator...

Why should the cross wind affect the camera.?
Apologies if you're being sarcastic and I'm not getting it, and looking at your profile you're obviously an experienced aviator, but:

At approx 200 ft, on a 5 degree approach slope, and an almost complete cross wind of approx 15 knots, I would have thought both PF and PNF would usually be quite busy and concentrating hard, not taking snaps...

Unless the pic came from a jump seat or altogether different source than an inbound - however it does look to be perfectly on the PAPI...

DW.

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Old 3rd Oct 2007, 10:40
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It was obviously a jumpseat? as said, pilots are not going to be clicking away on short final.

Well we would hope not.
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Old 3rd Oct 2007, 16:02
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Beleive it or not this aircraft has been moved across the river Thames on a barge. A tempory hangar is to be erected and the aircraft repaired. Photos on http://www.smiliner.com/news/current.shtml#0706_12
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Old 3rd Oct 2007, 20:19
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The Swiss RJ100 is now tucked away in its temp hangar.

Saw it as I arrived, with a bump tonight, on a BA RJ100, even the Stewardess remarked it was a "positive arrival" !
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Old 4th Oct 2007, 12:25
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Beleive it or not this aircraft has been moved across the river Thames on a barge. A tempory hangar is to be erected and the aircraft repaired. Photos on http://www.smiliner.com/news/current.shtml#0706_12
Really?















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Old 9th Oct 2007, 19:22
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More photos:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/exempla...os/1472132902/
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Old 11th Oct 2007, 19:47
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The aircraft was, of course, floated across to the north side of the Royal Albert Dock, not across the Thames. These photos taken just before completion of the hangar:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14869782@N02/1545151888/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14869782@N02/1545151898/
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Old 21st Oct 2007, 11:51
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so anyone know how the landing was completely buggered up?? heard report the "pilot" didnt know that any damage was caused any truth in that?
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Old 16th Nov 2007, 13:26
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Anyone know the current state of repairs of this a/c ??
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Old 19th Dec 2007, 21:58
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Any more news on this a/c? Are the repairs complete yet, or is it still in-situ?
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Old 20th Dec 2007, 00:25
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AFAIK the A/C has left LCY a couple of days ago. The temporary hangar is gone.
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Old 20th Dec 2007, 07:39
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Believe the bird escaped about the 5th of December.
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Old 20th Dec 2007, 15:43
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That's correct. The aircraft departed 3th Dec afternoon to BSL, where they conducted a C Check. The aircraft is now on the line.

The tent has been removed immediatly because they needed it somewhere in Poland for a broken A320.

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Old 20th Dec 2007, 16:21
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...even the Stewardess remarked it was a "positive arrival" !
Dont'cha love that? Especially as they never seem to remember to compliment the greasers...
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Old 20th Dec 2007, 18:55
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Originally Posted by Dani
The tent has been removed immediatly because they needed it somewhere in Poland for a broken A320.
hth,
Dani
Thought I recognized that tent!

Here it is housing Air Europa's 738 at Katowice, see post 136. What next?

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...=298066&page=7
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