It is Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane Art.
This week, we have a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 landing at Manchester Airport as it completes a transatlantic crossing, back to its northern base.
Virgin Atlantic was an operator of the type – again, the pandemic put pay to the fleet, with the entire fleet of 14 aircraft at its peak. The airline now operates twin-engined aircraft, featuring the Airbus A330-200, Airbus A330-300, Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 787-9.
The airline is due to take delivery of the Airbus A330-900 this year.
This aircraft – G-VAST – was also known as Ladybird. It joined the Virgin Atlantic fleet in June 1997 and was stored in May 2020. It has since been scrapped.
More Airplane Art next week!
Photographers Notes
- Camera: Canon EOS 100D (yes, a Canon 100D can do an image of this sort of quality).
- Lenses: Canon EF 70-200mm f4 L IS
- Settings: ISO800, 91mm 1/400 at f5
- Shot from the British Airways lounge at Manchester Airport (since closed). Trip report segment here
- Shot 30th March 2016
- Edited in Adobe Lightroom Classic and Luminar AI.
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