due in monday, out saturday-parking on western cargo-might pull rank to be on tower for that one!

Thanks for that - is "western cargo" visible from any road please? I do have a friend in ATC but wouldn't bother him for such trivia!

not sure what the opening times for the aeropark are-you would certainly see it from there, or else the road from the nags head pub in donington on the north side
(sure CJ wouldn't have minded!)

OK thanks indeed. If u see two suspicious looking pensioners mooching about with a telescope and camera it's probably us! Pass our best to CJ (or even CF!)

Will do, he retires in april-how will we replace him!

'bout time - he's older than God, surely?? We worked together many, many moons ago in Africa but lost contact long ago.

The beast is currently due in to EMA at around 1830 tonight.
Positioning from Baku, but is not airborne yet,

ADB7747 (A225) airborne at 1140z, ETZ into EGNX 1822.
Also POT1312 (A124) in from EFHK at 1439z and
VDA4048 (A124) got in from UNNT at 0805z.

Some heavy lifting going on at EMA over next few days then! EKKL, sorry for all the
codes:-)

rgds,
GP.

So it can get into NX then. It operated from LF with no problems years ago!

Actually the An-225 was airborne at 12.35 and is due 19.15.

I liked it because it p....d off the Red Arrows at Farnborough that year.
It displayed just before the Reds, and as it vacated the runway (they were lined up waiting to go) there was a visible mass movement of spectators towards the exits! Very few stayed to watch the Reds. Great!

Apparently its on London Airways at the moment, so its not far away !

IanH... Many thanks for that. "London Airways" eh?? You must be as old as me :D

Even in the dark, absolutely awesome, hope to get a looksie tom
landed around 1820

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Worked for it 8 years now still haven't seen it!!

Must try to get out of office more (need longer chain!!

VEEPS :uhoh:

Hoping to get a look round it myself this week.

What's it doing at EMA? Relief for Kashmir?

Additionally, HDA530 which was a B747 diverted in from Manchester earlier & I presume the Gemini MD11 is still tech on the West Apron?

Would make a nice sight to see a few heavies on the deck at the same time!

FC

1 An225, 2 An124 and the gemini MD11-B747 has gone back to Manch, but should be three more MD11's later!
my god but its a big bu**er!, its parked behind the 124 and it dwarves it

Is it still due to leave at 0800 on Sat?

Any updates welcome as I plan to head over from Manchester to see her.

Also depending on runway wheres the best place to get her flying over my head?


Jamo

Due out on Sat 0800Z....try this for size comparison

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ggestAN225.jpg

VEEPS