Saturday 1 December 2012 - Emirates Boeing 777's go nose to nose at Birmingham Airport!!

Emirates go nose to nose!! - Boeing 777-31HER A6-EBE arrives just as A6-EGQ pushes back....

.... A6-EGQ had gone "tech" after suffering a lightning strike on departure from Dubai on Friday

.... and as a result had spent the night parked on Stand 85C next to Transaero Boeing 747-346
VP-BGX which had diverted in due to poor weather at Bruntingthorpe on Friday afternoon

Air France Airbus A319-111 F-GRHR operated their morning service to Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX

Citation Mustang OE-FZA was a morning visitor to the Elmdon apron departing to Chambery

Netjets Hawker 800XP CS-DFX which diverted in from Coventry on Friday evening departed

Centreline Citation CJ2 G-TWOP was an afternoon departure to Malaga

"The Flying Show" at the nearby NEC resulted in a number of light aircraft visitors

including Pioneer 300 Hawk G-CGTL - the first visit of this type of aircraft to BHX

 

Monday 3 December 2012 - Transaero Boeing 747 VP-BGX departs on its final flight to Bruntingthorpe

Transaero Boeing 747-346 VP-BGX which had diverted in on Friday afternoon.... Photo: Laurence Jones

.... departed to Bruntingthorpe where it is due to be parted out/scrapped Photo: Mike Hollick

.... lifting off Runway 33 before it reached the intersection with the cross runway

.... before levelling off for its short final flight to Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire

Twinjet Airbus A319CJ G-NMAK was a morning visitor to the Elmdon apron Photo: Mike Hollick

RAF Tristar C2 ZE705 which had been based at BHX over the weekend while
RAF Brize Norton's runway was closed for maintenance was a morning departure
while RAF C17 ZZ175 remained parked up on Taxiway Tango

Friday 30 November 2012 - Transaero Boeing 747 VP-BGX diverts in from Bruntingthorpe!!

Transaero Boeing 747-346 VP-BGX was an afternoon arrival when in diverted in due to poor visibility
at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, where it is due to be scrapped. The aircraft arrived from Moscow