You may not remember the Name but you may remember the Incident
 

On November 28, 2002, approximately 20 minutes before the Kenyan hotel bombing occurred, an Arkia Boeing 757 was narrowly missed by two anti-aircraft missiles shortly after takeoff from Moi International Airport in Kenya. The plane was able to land safely in Tel Aviv
Wikipedia

c 130 in lhr
 

hi all saw a C-130 going into LHR today around 11.00am,any ideas who,s it was?

I don't know... but Air Algerie used to operate them into Heathrow on cargo flights..

Greek AF, callsign was 'HAF 356N'. Parked in cargo.

Wow.. nice one. I never saw one of those when I worked there.

Heathrow Last Night
 

Landed in from Mauritius last night on BA122. I was suprised to see EGLL so busy. We entered the stack above South East London at 12000ft and did 5 turns, descending down to 7000ft. When we finally got approach clearance we descended really quickly and also flew quickly toward 27L. However I noticed we landed halfway down the runway and that the pilot slammed on the brakes so hard that everyone was thrown forward.
Is there a reason that we landed so far down, and also does anyone know how quickly the planes were coming in, as I could see at least 7 planes on approach.

Thanks

What airline is this......?
 

Just checking the Heathrow departure boards for my wife's flight tonight, and came across the following flights:

23:30 TST002 Munich Terminal 1
23:35 TST004 New York Terminal 3
23:40 TST006 Bahrain Terminal 4
23:55 TST008 New York Terminal 5

What's all that about?

Think you might find that "TST" = test.

Kinda guessed that, but what are they testing? Is it A380 flights or something?

My guess would be they are testing the computer infomation and network systems will work when T5 comes on line in March.

BA967 arrival at LHR, 11 Jan 2008
 

Does anyone know the story behind BA967's arrival from Hamburg on Friday evening, 11/1/08? The A319 was tracking south-eastwards across North London when at 18:47 it turned south-west and started descending. It arrived over Isleworth on the approach to 27L about 1000 ft too high and did a 360º right turn to lose height before landing at 18:54. Meanwhile all other arriving aircraft were held clear, some being pulled off the 27L approach. A few landed on 27R (used in mixed mode from 19:00) but landings on 27L didn't resume until 19:11.

Runway 23/05
 

Hi,
Just wondering about the old cross-wind runway. I read somewhere that 23 was last used sometime in 2003 , a South African 747 being the last aircraft to land on it. Does anyone know the last time 05 was used for takeoffs? How about takeoffs from 23, did this ever happen?

Have fond memories of windy days in West London watching the unusual sight of tridents, tristars etc. approaching over Southall.

Cheers

It's a very long time since 05 was used for take-off and that runway was very rarely used - never as much as 23. I did some 05 ops in the early 70s during a snow storm, both landings and take-offs!! 23 was used for take-offs frequently when there were strong SW winds. During one spell of southwesterlies I did 23 single-runway several times, with a few deps off 27R at the same time. Great fun.

my desk has a nice view of the north runway and the unusual prop sound i just heard made me look up and see a dark C130/L100 take off, pretty much exactly 5pm. another one took off a week or two ago at around lunchtime, neither of them were Air Algerie as mentioned a few posts above - is it a regular visit from the Greek AF? whoever it is it makes a welcome change!

Heathrow Pictures Website
 

Just wondering if anyone knows what happened to this smashing little site? Seems to have vanished.

Which site was that please?

HD, Was heathrowpictures.com, admin I believe worked at LHR and used to post great pics from the tower plus details of any interesting arrivals in the coming weeks. London spotter's dream!

Perhaps he's too busy with the day job, which is understandable.

PKPF68-77 Thank you!! I was hoping they'd leave a 6ft slot somewhere but, alas, it's all concrete now.

trident 3A.. OK. I think that's an ex-colleage of mine so I'll try and find out more. There are some old pics on my site:
http://brendan-mccartney.fotopic.net

and on the Air Britain site at:

http://abpic.co.uk/results.php?q=hea...atest&limit=10

I live in Teddington, about 7 km south west of the eastern end of Heathrow. I don't know all the factors that determine the routes that departing Aircraft can take, but on numerous occasions aircraft fly almost right over my home.

It's never really bother me (in fact I miss heading Concorde during it's take off) and I've become accustomed to the noise, however, for the first time in the seven years I've lived there I was woken up by a departing aircraft. The Aircraft in question passed overhead at 0145 this morning (Monday 3rd). I was probably just a combination of being woken and the general level of quietness at this hour of the morning, but it seemed to be the loudest aircraft I'd ever heard at home (well, since Concorde, and that never flew over my home).

So my question is, what time does the last flight leave Heathrow? I thought it was round about midnight, so have I been mistaken all these years, or was this an unusually late departure by a large aircraft?

There is no "last flight" time, Heathrow is open 24 hours. As you are probably aware there are a limited number of night flight slots, ie between 2300 and 0600. Over time these have tended to get concentrated in the hands of those airlines with large aircraft they wish to arrive shortly before 0600. But if any operator has one of these slots they could depart at 0145 each night if they wished. It is just that, commercially, it is more effective to go for those early morning arrivals.

Such a unplanned night departure has to be taken from the night slot allowance. So if it was BA (just as an example) who had a late evening departure delayed several hours, one of their early morning arivals will have to be rearranged to arive after 0600. This sort of on-the-day adjustment happens from time to time.

It used to be that there were several freight flights in the middle of the night, but these have been squeezed out by the early morning arrivals within the night times. The night flights allowed are expressed at so many per year which gives some flexibility, and 99%+ actualy get used.