Myrtle Avenue, LHR Spotting Heaven.

Steyr

Hey all,

Here are my shots from the famous Myrtle Avenue, possibly the best spotting location in Europe just across from London Heathrow's 27L Runway,

Anyway on with the show!































Will post my Heli snaps in a little bit, hope you like!

Dave.

*Kol*

Great photos. Well done.:cool:

Fratton Fred

Nice photos, I know the area well. I am sure some of the buildings around there have tyre marks on their roofs

As an aside, I did physics at college, I understand the concepts of flight, the shape of the wing, the different air pressure above and below creating lift.

I still have no idea how a 747 flies, it just seems wrong to me

pclancy

Great photos. I'd highly recommend a room in Jureys Airport Hotel too, windows facing the main road have fantastic views of landing aircraft

ian_m

They're great. I thought Manchester was one of the best places to spot?

vulcan57

A small selection of the crowd of spotters that day.

TheCosmicFrog

A320
747-400
747-400
A320
A320
A330
777-300 (love that tailkskid!)
A300
A310
747
A321
A340
747-400
747-400

Anyone contest?

Excellent photos, I must go there someday!

Steyr

vulcan57 wrote: »

A small selection of the crowd of spotters that day.

Where's myself and Adrian!:pac:

barnicles

Great photos

Steyr

barnicles wrote: »

Great photos

Thanks Sir.

ch252

To quote the man on the Galway bay trad on the prom advert: Simply breathtaking!

Really class shots.

Fratton Fred

I think the first one is great. that line of planes continues all day every day.

it must be quite a stressful place to land for a pilot, I guess as you are approaching, you are constantly waiting to be told to abort the landing because a plane hasn't cleared the runway.

(I heard Air France are worst for that btw)

ch252

Fratton Fred wrote: »

it must be quite a stressful place to land for a pilot

Try being a controller!:eek:

OPENROAD

Fratton Fred wrote: »

(I heard Air France are worst for that btw)

We recently had to a go around and the pilot did confirm that an Aer France plane was too slow and had not cleared the runway.

Fratton Fred

OPENROAD wrote: »

We recently had to a go around and the pilot did confirm that an Aer France plane was too slow and had not cleared the runway.

I'd heard from a controller that they like to do their landing checks as soon as they land, by the book.

Must be difficult doing them with a controller screaming "get off the ****ing runway" in your ear

Fratton Fred

I was coming round past Hatton cross station yesterday and I caught a glimpse of a concorde nose by the BA cargo hangers (There was a lorry in the way so I couldn't see the whole thing. Is this the replica that was by the entrance to the tunnel?, it looked a bit small.

robinph

Maybe they were moving it the day this picture was taken but that seems like a very odd place to have parked it. I thought they had sold off the mini-replica one from the entrance though.

Edit: clicky

Heathrow Airport wrote:

It will be displayed to the north east of the airfield which is overlooked by Heathrow's Visitor Centre.

Seems that is where they decide to finally park it so people get a view of it as taxiing around I guess.

I went around the last one to ever fly at Filton and got to sit in the cockpit as well, impressive plane and wish there was still the chance to fly on it.

Steyr

When we were there the small Concorde was in the middle of a roundabout.

Fratton Fred

I've just been around the north orbital road and G-BOAB is currently parked alongside the permieter fence by the BA Hangers (From Myrtle Avenue, go along the permieter, past Hatton Cross and follow round to your left).

Seems a strange place to park it, but it is the one that was parked alongside the taxiway.

vulcan57

Steyr wrote: »

Where's myself and Adrian!:pac:

You mean these two?

Gekko

cool photos. The first one with the planes lining up is great.

Steyr

Cheers Gekko:)