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MANCHESTER AIRPORT
by Martin Arrand
(except title picture & 'Wet Sunday afternoon' slideshow by Dan Sellers)
Added to website 21 July 2010 ('Wet Sunday afternoon' slideshow added 5 October 2010)
MANCHESTER AIRPORT: The largest airport outside of London, it is the 12th busiest international with aircraft coming in every few minutes to its three
terminals so there is always something interesting to see. It is home to 95 airlines and handles 19½m passengers per year. It has a public
access viewing area.
Really wet Sunday afternoon at Manchester Airport!
Photographs taken by Dan Sellers on Sunday 3 October 2010
Added to website 5 October 2010
A wet and wild day, an afternoon visit to Manchester Airport to see the arrival of an Emirates Airbus A380, an impressive aircraft landing
after its 7 ½ hr flight from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The A380 is the world’s largest airliner; the Emirates examples having 489
seats in a three-class layout. The most impressive points about it are its enormous size and how quiet it is. This is the jumbo jet for the
21st century.
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Other aircraft seen include a Lufthansa Airbus A320 on a flight from Germany, a Flybe Bombardier Dash twin turboprop a Monarch Airbus A321 and two Jumbo jets.
A preserved BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident can be found at the entrance to the Aviation Viewing Park.
Dan Sellers.
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Photographs & captions below by Martin Arrand
1. Here is a sight that everyone should recognise, The Concorde, G-BOAC now a preserved exhibit at Manchester Airport viewing area. This
aircraft performed the fly-past along with the Red Arrows over Buckingham Palace on the Queens Golden Jubilee in 2002. The Anglo French
Concorde was the world’s fastest civil airliner, flying on the edges of space, it achieved speeds of Mach 2 (1496 MPH) nearly 25 miles/minute.
It carried passengers from London to New York in just over 3hrs.
2. A BAC111 on display at Manchester viewing park.
3. This Boeing 777-300 belonging to Emirates has arrived on a daily flight from Dubai.
4. An Airbus A330 belonging to Qatar Airways.
5. A Jet2 Boeing 757-200 taxiing to the stands with another load of passengers from Europe.
6. A Virgin Boeing 747-400 on its 1200 daily flight to Orlando, Florida, USA.
7. An Air China 747-400 cargo plane bringing imports from China, this is a daily flight into Manchester.
8. A flybe Embraer EMB 190.
9. An ATR 42 from Aer Arann from Ireland.
10. A Boeing 737 /300 from bmi baby on a cheap flight from Europe. This company is based at East Midlands Airport.
11. A pink plane ex bmi, a Boeing 737 /300 now based in Switzerland with Helvetic.
12. A bmi regional Embraer EMB 135 on a local flight from Aberdeen.
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