Economy Class & Beyond

The Cathay Group takes its last aircraft out of storage

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Some airlines have recovered a lot quicker than others - with The Cathay Group one of the slower airlines to fully recover from the pandemic. In a sign it has perhaps turned a corner, the last stored aircraft has been reactivated and has returned to Hong Kong. The 85th member of its fleet - B-HLV - A Cathay Pacific Airbus A330 has returned to its home base of Hong … [Read more...]

EOS R Long Term Review: Capturing the British Airways BOAC 747-400

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Capturing the British Airways BOAC Boeing 7470-400 EOS R Long Term Review In this series: Introducing the Canon EOS R City and Street Photography in Brussels Urban Exploration with a Model (featuring the RotoLight NEO II) Aviation Photography in Manchester Night time Model Photography The British Airways BOAC Boeing 747-400 Living pains with the EOS … [Read more...]

The second British Airways Retrojet will be… BEA!

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... British European Airways (BEA). Continuing the celebration of the centenary of British Airways - after the successful retrojet repaint of G-BYGC into BOAC colours, the airline has chosen the colours of BEA from 1959 to 1968 for their next retrojet. This will fly aboard a more modern Airbus A319 - G-EUPJ The A319 will enter the IAC paint bay at Shannon … [Read more...]

Airbus BelugaXL begins to take shape

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In odd and weird planes in the air, Airbus's Beluga does take a lot of beating. It's next generation variant - the BelugaXL is currently being built in Toulouse, with Airbus releasing a picture of it today. Airbus BelugaXL - Vertical tailplane being fitted  - Image, Airbus As  you can see, the BelugaXL is looking more like... well... a very outsized plane than a … [Read more...]

Airbus commences assembly of its next A330neo – A330-800

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Airbus are continuing work on its next-gen A330neo family, with A330-800 production getting under way. So far, we've seen pictures of the first of the A330neo - the A330-900 (the payload optimised varient), which is edging closer to first flight 2nd prototype #Airbus #A330-900 Neo F-WWTE emerge from paint shop #avgeek #toulouse #A330neo @flightradar24 @karelxwb … [Read more...]

The case of the vanishing Avro RJ (Brussels Airlines Edition)

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Last month, we waved off Swiss International Airlines Avro RJ. This time, we're going to take a look at Brussels Airlines and their ever decreasing Avro RJ services Brussels Airlines Avro RJ 85 at Heathrow Airport - Image, Economy Class and Beyond. Brussels Airlines have appeared to have published final operation for the type as it removes them from … [Read more...]

Doughnuts on the Mound – To the Mound and to the Planes! (Travel Technology: Canon 100-400L and lots of planes)

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Doughnuts On The Mound - To the Mound and to the Planes! (with Travel Technology: Using the Canon 100-400L and lots of planes) Editors note: This is a repost, as something was very glitchy with the old post. This should fix it.... In this epic day trip (and it t'was epic) Spotting for the day? Why not? Morning Manoeuvres at Birmingham Airport EI263 Birmingham … [Read more...]

Airplane Art Special: A visit to the control tower of Heathrow Airport

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As part of US National Aviation Day last week, as part of the tour I was on of Heathrow Airport, I was granted a special visit to somewhere you don't go to normally. And that is the control tower at Heathrow Airport American Airlines Boeing 777 being towed with Heathrow Tower in the background - Image, Economy Class and Beyond The structure itself is tall at 87 metres … [Read more...]

Twenty American Airlines MD-80s go into retirement…

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... and as much as like the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 for photos... I'm not going to miss them. American Airlines MD-80 at Dallas Fort Worth, Image - Economy Class and Beyond The MD-80 fleet is still numerous in number, with 61 MD-80 type aircraft left in the operational fleet of American Airlines. Twenty of the type today retired to Roswell - to be placed into … [Read more...]