Another week at LHR, 16th -20th Dec 2020

[Jeff]

varied weather, mostly wet, saw another 46 entered in the log book this week, comments / questions welcome as always

LY-LEO A330 LHR 19/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

LY-LEO A330 LHR 20/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

LY-LEO A330 LHR 20/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

LY-LEO A330 LHR 20/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

HL7578 / ET-AWN A330 LHR 19/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

9XR-WN A330 LHR 20/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

JA784A ANA B777 LHR 19/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

G-VFAN Virgin Atlantic B787 20/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

V8-DLE B787 LHR 18/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

2020-12-21_01-53-44 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

B-5927 A330 Air China 18/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

VP-BIL LHR 19/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

VP-BRA / LY-LEO LHR 19/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

[alfred]

All excellent Jeff, i look forward to seeing your shots, Airbus included.
Who was the Lithuanian 330 operating for please?

[Jeff]

Sorry, missed a couple

G-VPRD Dec 20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

B-18918 China Airlines A350 18/12/20 by Eelmoor Farnborough, on Flickr

[Jeff]

Dec 21, 2020 18:57:50 GMT alfred said:

All excellent Jeff, i look forward to seeing your shots, Airbus included.
Who was the Lithuanian 330 operating for please?

no idea, sorry, although the same people who were servicing the Norwind 777 seemed to be hanging around the 330, it was also parked on the same stand as the Norwind......trouble is, I've no idea who the Norwind was operating for either...LOL

[Jeff]

Dec 21, 2020 18:57:50 GMT alfred said:

All excellent Jeff, i look forward to seeing your shots, Airbus included.
Who was the Lithuanian 330 operating for please?

no idea, sorry, although the same people who were servicing the Norwind 777 seemed to be hanging around the 330, it was also parked on the same stand as the Norwind......trouble is, I've no idea who the Norwind was operating for either...LOL

[alfred]

I got mixed up, thinking it was Gainjet who are Greek.I had not heard of Getjet.
One other question please.Is there any one of the Virgin fleet which is more unreliable than the others?
My pilot friend always said in every fleet there is always a dog of a plane.

[Jeff]

So I'm cargo orientated as opposed to comfort upstairs, here we go...

B747: not a great cargo uplifter and due age quite often tech

A343: again not a great cargo uplifter but rarely tech

A346: fantastic for cargo very few probs as per 343

B787: A problem child from the beginning and still havi g issues, not all RR related, carrys a lot of weight but not as many ULD positions as the 346, so the 346 could uplift more volume

A330: About same uplift as 343, hardly ever an issue regarding tech, will plod back and forth over the pond without much fuss

A350: no issues yet, carrys more than a 346, seems to have trim probs when not carrying pax, a problem we seem to have got around with strategically placed sand bags

[howardlgw]

Alfred,  regards LY-LEO A.330 Get jet, checking FR24 playback it came into Heathrow as GW708 from originally Tianjin via Kaunas, possibly carrying medical supplies ? 

[Jeff]

Yes, def boxes upstairs and down

[alfred]

Howard, thank you for that.I just assumed it was passengers.

[foxfire]

Great pictures, Jeff , especially of the Aeroflot!