East Midlands Thread
 

and will be flying from there tomorrow (5th 0ct) on a demo flight, for those that are interested Reg is PP-XMB

Pic will be posted shortly

Picture as promised ( bigger item from rear at http://mysite.orange.co.uk/donno2006/Embraer_190.jpg )

http://mysite.orange.co.uk/donno2006..._190_small.jpg

Any idea who they were demo-ing to?

Rumoured to be BMI.

Not rumoured it was definitly bmi.

Yup, hangered in there and took members of the board and Baby/ regional? I believe for a flight

Who else
 

There must be other airlines that the aircraft will be on demo to does any one have ideas or do we just wait and see the airport it will go to after??

And if you were lucky enough to get at invite from NT then you got to go for a free ride too.

I saw the emb 190 yesterday at EMA and i can confirm it was on demo to BMI group in fact fellow crew member i was with today came in early to have a look onboard said very nice and roomy but best suited to regional rather Baby

For those that are interested, the AN 22 has just landed at East Midlands Airport
 

at 3.20 pm Sunday 21st Jan

departed 4.48pm :)

It passed over us, just south of Reading, at about 17:10. What utter joy!! Last one I logged was at the Paris Air Show in 1965, although I believe I saw one at Farnborough one year and also one at Heathrow, but never logged the numbers.

If you want to eat your heart out.... and ATC colleague of mine at Heathrow has actually flown one!!

isnt there just the one?

.......just after passing overhead Didcot....very,VERY nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<<isnt there just the one?>>

Civil, maybe, but also a military one? There were one or two more in the past...

It looks like RA-09309 is flying again in addition to UR-09307............
http://www.planepictures.net/netsear...&srch=RA-09309

Almost, might be confused with the AN225 the 6 engined beast!

Nah... The An-22 is a REAL aeroplane with propellors!!

Lots of them!

Great to see the beast is flying again, freind of mine heard it overfly Worthing (in total ignorance of what it was!) on Sunday. Cen't wait to see and hear it again myself! :ok:

All those of you in the know, please keep us updated as to its movements!

Cheers

Treadders

AN-22
 

The amazing AN-22 (UR-09307) is currently at East Midlands (or whatever they call in now) and is due to leave for Toulouse sometime this afternoon..

I'll have to keep an ear out for it, but I guess it will track rather further to the west than me. :{

RR must be a bit behind. They are chartering a lot to TLS at the moment.

At least they can now use the An-22 (back in service) and the Stage III IL-76 from time to time, meaning a cost saving over using the An-124.

Anyone know exactly what engines travel in them? Are they A380, A330???

I think the An-22 has visited EMA a few times this year already. :} My friend took a few photos of it during its visits. You can see them on his site which is..

http://www.aviationpics.fpic.co.uk/

Does anyone know if there is a Cargo Timetable for NEMA on the net?
Or any Movements for NEMA.

Having not being down to NEMA for a few years I am out of touch with what is flying in.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards.;)

Does anyone here know what the unuusal A321 was parked on the new apron at EMA today. It had a red tail with a white palm-tree on it, but I couldn't get close enough to get a reg. Could someone please help me!

Cheers
SAM-EMA

Air Mediterranee - French reg I think, but I didn't look too closely.
If it's still there Wed I'll take another look

It was - FGYAR
RC

Midlands Midnight Flight?
 

I get what sounds like a large piston twin passing over my house (North Coventry) almost every night around midnight...The noise/sound seems to hang around for ages. Who/what is it?

Atlantic Airlines Lockheed Electra?

I've always thought that's what it is.

Could be anything from the L-188 to an Antonov 12 or Antonov 26. Certainly a few of those operating night mail flights in the UK I believe.

Not if it really was piston-engined :hmm: . But you're right, it probably wasn't.

It could be the PA-34 that operates nightly out of Coventry to Dublin, takes off around 11:30.

Andrew

If it's a twin, it won't be an Electra or a an Antonov 12 (and the An-12s are very rare in the UK at the moment.)

Might be an F-27 which there are also a few of at the moment - those things make a racket as well.

:= Hang on just a minute now! MikeSamuel said: "what sounds like a large piston twin". He didn't say that it definitely was a twin, nor that it definitely was "piston". What Another procedure and I offered were the most likely types currently in operation that may "sound" like "piston" heavies to the untrained ear.

There were some from another airport not East Mids in the sky around you at the time....... you can select a time and watch them inflight here... there is a tracking service you can run for East Mids and you just sort of come on the bottom of the map :) they do not appear to be from East Mids as nothing at that time was coming from or going too it...... the yellow ones are from another Airport :)

http://www.eastmidlandsairport.com/cms/173/webtrak.html

It'll be the PA-34. I'd know the difference if it was a turbine! :)

What is it doing?

Nightly parcel/mail/newspaper type stuff - returns to CVT a couple of hours later.

The PA-34 Operates nightly flying from Coventry to Dublin with Cheque Books, the flight is operated by Centreline and is parked at Coventry most days.