I had Flightradar24 on this morning and seeing i am not getting a lot of aircraft flying over me now i have moved to Devon i saw an aircraft doing a U turn over Lands End, after looking at the details it was Virgins new Boeing 787-9 G-VNEW ,not having kept up with the civil scene of late i see it was on a flight out of Heathrow and back to Gatwick, so i am assuming it will get it's Water Hose treatment,
As usual nothing on the TV about it Live [what else] but it would have been nice to have seen it arrive at Gatwick.
Of course i maybe totally wrong and it is not it's first flight
Cheers,
Roger.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
It was delivered from Everett last week, and they did quite a number of short proving flights round the UK. I saw it on the approach to Liverpool 09 one day ( only the 2nd one I've seen at low level, the other being the "All Blacks " Air New Zealand one
Well like i said i have not kept up with the latest civil news but i'm only a week behind it all to do with this 787-9 Birthday Girl!
Thanks for the link Tony, there is also is a good video at the end of that one taken at Prestwick last week and it was great to see the spotters able to get some good views of the aircraft.
Cheers,
Roger.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I think that was its second visit of the day to EGGP . The first was about 1120 BST and was a 09 approach ( although I don't know whether it circled to land on 27 ) . Despite my doubts about the thing, it is rather a nice looking aeroplane
For me the jury is still out on bendy plastic wings - I know (having worked a bit in the GRP industry that GRP & its clones has a flex modulus greater than metals, but not sure when one joins lots of bits together so in the end its not one homogeneous lump. Shades of No Highway to come????
Keith
delivered 10th October
