Planes in Shannon

dennis124wwr · 25-08-2013 5:41pm #1

All of the planes that were at Shannon.

dennis124wwr · 25-08-2013 5:43pm

Was Jet Airways ever at Shannon? Do they have flights from India?

MarkR · 26-08-2013 9:22pm

Looks like there was one passing through in july.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n707pm/9374975319/

And there is a former one parked up seemingly too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38016434@N05/8714123735/

knockon · 27-08-2013 10:08pm

The 737-800 Jet is owned by MCAP - Aviation Leasing Company. You will see many aircraft from with airline colours that are going into/out maintenance in Shannon (Shannon Aerospace, Transaero etc.). The Indian airline you described never had nor never will have flights into or out of Shannon. Its just an aircraft coming back or going to a customer.

cml387 · 27-08-2013 10:12pm

knockon wrote: »

The 737-800 Jet is owned by MCAP - Aviation Leasing Company. You will see many aircraft from with airline colours that are going into/out maintenance in Shannon (Shannon Aerospace, Transaero etc.). The Indian airline you described never had nor never will have flights into or out of Shannon. Its just an aircraft coming back or going to a customer.

Quite often aircraft are repainted at Shannon as well.

dennis124wwr · 28-08-2013 10:19pm

Is the Airbus A380 going to come to Shannon again

BonkeyDonker · 28-08-2013 10:22pm

dennis124wwr wrote: »

Is the Airbus A380 going to come to Shannon again

Shannon is a major diversion airport for aircraft crossing the Atlantic so the A380 probably will be at some stage - but as for scheduled ops - very very doubtful

dennis124wwr · 30-08-2013 10:01pm

Did the Boeing 747 come to Shannon

dennis124wwr · 30-08-2013 10:04pm

Does someone have a pilot map etc. for Shannon?

Henry Ford III · 31-08-2013 8:43am

dennis124wwr wrote: »

Did the Boeing 747 come to Shannon

Aer Lingus used them transatlantic for years. No scheduled B747's using Snn these times though.

salmocab · 31-08-2013 8:48am

I flew from Dublin to Shannon on a 747 in late 80s as a school tour, first time on a plane. Think they used to do it to make up a couple of quid in the seats that would be filled from Shannon onwards.

dennis124wwr · 31-08-2013 9:40am

Does someone have any pictures of Boeing 747 Aer Lingus?

dennis124wwr · 31-08-2013 9:40am

www.airteamimages.com

dennis124wwr · 31-08-2013 9:44am

dennis124wwr wrote: »

www.airteamimages.com

You have to look up this website. It like has pictures of all the planes of the world.

relaxed · 31-08-2013 10:59am

salmocab wrote: »

I flew from Dublin to Shannon on a 747 in late 80s as a school tour, first time on a plane. Think they used to do it to make up a couple of quid in the seats that would be filled from Shannon onwards.

This her?:eek:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/148851/M/

dennis124wwr · 31-08-2013 11:04am

Boeing 747

periodictable · 01-09-2013 12:55am

dennis124wwr wrote: »

Did the Boeing 747 come to Shannon

The US bound flights used to pass over west Clare coming from Shannon, so low sometimes that you could see the cabin lights.
Living in the US and at the Long Island beaches on the weekends, you could always tell the time by the Aer Lingus planes arriving from home as they made their final approach along the shoreline.

cml387 · 01-09-2013 6:01pm

Haha
This is EI BED at Shannon looking more respectable:

BonkeyDonker · 01-09-2013 6:09pm

dennis124wwr wrote: »

Does someone have a pilot map etc. for Shannon?

Do you mean charts - if so you can find them all here - http://www.iaa.ie/safe_reg/iaip/aip_einn_charts.htm

Aerodrome Chart

MyKeyG · 05-09-2013 2:17am

Does anyone remember the Concorde landing in Shannon?

Clareman · 05-09-2013 8:03am

MyKeyG wrote: »

Does anyone remember the Concorde landing in Shannon?

I'd say anyone 30 or over will remember the Concorde, especially when Shannon was the training area for BA

periodictable · 05-09-2013 11:36am

MyKeyG wrote: »

Does anyone remember the Concorde landing in Shannon?

Remember it flying around west Clare, the first knowledge that it was around was loud explosion and the sleeping dog falling off the wall with the fright.

Jim Martin · 05-09-2013 1:31pm

periodictable wrote: »

Remember it flying around west Clare, the first knowledge that it was around was loud explosion and the sleeping dog falling off the wall with the fright.

Can't believe they were allowed to break the "sound barrier" over Clare - aren't there supposed to be regulations against this sort of thing?

dukedalton · 05-09-2013 2:19pm

Jim Martin wrote: »

Can't believe they were allowed to break the "sound barrier" over Clare - aren't there supposed to be regulations against this sort of thing?

"Head just north of Galway till you see the British ships. They come very close to the island when they're dumping the old 'Glow in the Dark'".

As time goes on the more obvious it becomes that Father Ted was actually a documentary.

periodictable · 05-09-2013 2:26pm

Jim Martin wrote: »

Can't believe they were allowed to break the "sound barrier" over Clare - aren't there supposed to be regulations against this sort of thing?

That was the mid-70s, and I don't think "regulation" was part of the Irish lexicon back then.

Jim Martin · 05-09-2013 2:39pm

periodictable wrote: »

That was the mid-70s, and I don't think "regulation" was part of the Irish lexicon back then.

Come to think of it - it isn't now, is it? (not with the bankers, anyway)!

Brennans Row · 05-09-2013 3:04pm

Jim Martin wrote: »

Can't believe they were allowed to break the "sound barrier" over Clare - aren't there supposed to be regulations against this sort of thing?

I would have thought so too but according to wiki the sonic booms were also a nuisance in North Cornwall and North Devon as these areas were underneath the flight path of Concorde.

MyKeyG · 06-09-2013 1:30am

periodictable wrote: »

That was the mid-70s, and I don't think "regulation" was part of the Irish lexicon back then.

It was later than that. I was born in 81 and I remember seeing it landing in Shannon when I was about 4 or 5. In fact my Aunts budgie dropped dead after a sonic boom. No word of a lie.

cml387 · 06-09-2013 1:48pm

Allowing for some "funny" answers, Concorde never broke the sound barrier over Ireland.
Concorde in regular service went supersonic well southwest of Ireland, but given the right atmospheric conditions the boom could be heard in south west england and southern ireland.

Mind you , Concorde was LOUD in normal operation, especially with full reheat engaged.

I stood at threshold of 24 (on the public side of the wire of course) when it took off an it was actually physically painful, your ears had to be covered and you felt the sound in your stomach.

The last time I saw it was 1992 in Shannon, and I knew it was there because I could hear it taking off in Ennis!

Geomy · 07-09-2013 11:22am

I am from Clare, I used to stay in Wexford over the Summer's, I heard the sonic boom down there, it had a long drawn out hopping sound, like a door not closed properly in a drafty woody house.

I can remember watching it take off and land from that hill facing the length of the runway.

I actually felt the effects in my insides too almost felt sick from the intensity. ..

cml387 · 07-09-2013 2:52pm

Geomy wrote: »

I am from Clare, I used to stay in Wexford over the Summer's, I heard the sonic boom down there, it had a long drawn out hopping sound, like a door not closed properly in a drafty woody house.

I can remember watching it take off and land from that hill facing the length of the runway.

I actually felt the effects in my insides too almost felt sick from the intensity. ..

Was that on the hill where the VOR is?

I once tried to stand underneath it on the perimeter road (now closed) that crossed the approach, but at the last minute my nerve failed me.:o

Planes in Shannon

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