Manchester Holiday part Nine - Manchester Airport
Wednesday, 17. September 2008, 14:43:27
My friend Steve dropped me off before 9am before he went to work and i said goodbye and thanks for having me, we had such a great time! I had my luggage with me and went to the mound at the Aviation Viewing Park to watch the planes for a few hours before making my way to the Terminal for my flight home. Here are a selection of my favourite ones from today.
Fire training is in progress, they do this quite frequently incase the real thing happens. I did think for a second that the Business jet was on fire! Glad it wasnt.
Delta 757-200 head on.
I cant believe how lucky iam to witness another emergency landing!!! This time it was a Flybe flight that had technical problems and they just followed him to stand, it makes me think i hope my flight will be ok!
I saw the plane that took me here having its engines tested out in the engine bay facility.
Dragonair Cargo 747-400 just arrived from Hong Kong.
Concorde nose.
XL Airways 737-900, shame they have now gone out of business.
At around 1pm, i got the free bus back to the Terminals and went up to the roof spotting area of Terminal 1 to see the action from there, this looks out over the parking area for the planes which was good.
Emirates 777-300 taxiing to its parking stand right infront of me.
Close up of the action, nice busy apron.
Jet2 757-200, the same one that had the emergency landing last Friday (22nd August).
Emirates 777-300 waiting for pushback clearance.
Short video of Foxy on the roof!
It was soon time to head back to Terminal 3, where my Flybe flight operates from, so i made the short journey to there and went to the fast bag drop as i had already checked in online and went through security and into the airside lounge. My flight leaves at 17:10 so i had an hour and a half to wait yet, i like to get there early so i can see the planes closer and i could see the runway too!
I will do the flight home on the next post in part 10, hope you enjoyed this part, i certainly did and exploring new places like the spotting roof makes it so much more fun!
Fire training is in progress, they do this quite frequently incase the real thing happens. I did think for a second that the Business jet was on fire! Glad it wasnt.
Delta 757-200 head on.
I cant believe how lucky iam to witness another emergency landing!!! This time it was a Flybe flight that had technical problems and they just followed him to stand, it makes me think i hope my flight will be ok!
I saw the plane that took me here having its engines tested out in the engine bay facility.
Dragonair Cargo 747-400 just arrived from Hong Kong.
Concorde nose.
XL Airways 737-900, shame they have now gone out of business.
At around 1pm, i got the free bus back to the Terminals and went up to the roof spotting area of Terminal 1 to see the action from there, this looks out over the parking area for the planes which was good.
Emirates 777-300 taxiing to its parking stand right infront of me.
Close up of the action, nice busy apron.
Jet2 757-200, the same one that had the emergency landing last Friday (22nd August).
Emirates 777-300 waiting for pushback clearance.
Short video of Foxy on the roof!
It was soon time to head back to Terminal 3, where my Flybe flight operates from, so i made the short journey to there and went to the fast bag drop as i had already checked in online and went through security and into the airside lounge. My flight leaves at 17:10 so i had an hour and a half to wait yet, i like to get there early so i can see the planes closer and i could see the runway too!
I will do the flight home on the next post in part 10, hope you enjoyed this part, i certainly did and exploring new places like the spotting roof makes it so much more fun!
WIDGETIZE
glad it is not that serious.
Great blog btw, thanks for sharing
By pfelelep, # 17. September 2008, 16:08:50
By Words, # 17. September 2008, 17:56:06