Photos from the Garden :o)

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Hello all,

Since I rarely seem to be able to get up to Heathrow these days, I wanted to test my camera somehow and decided to photograph the aircraft on approach to Heathrow from my back garden.

I was extremely bored in the scorching hot sunshine until a Virgin Atlantic A340-600 flew at a very low altitude over our house. I was amazed since Heathrow is about 20 miles away and the aircraft was just a couple of thousand feet above.

The images are technically, very boring and about 99.9% of each image is sky with the aircraft being just a little dot. But do not fear, I will get up to Heathrow one day and get some real photographs, hopefully before the end of the month!

Also note that the quality of the images are not great since I was using maximum zoom.

Hopefully from these photographs you'll have a better understanding of where in the world I am. I can't read registrations of the aircraft, but it is certainly easy to identify the airline and aircraft as they glide over us.

We seem to have all the Heathrow action going on above our town. By looking up, you can see a traffic pattern emerging. Some aircraft must go past Heathrow, fly the 20 or miles to us before making a right turn and going all the way back again, much like the Virgin aircraft I spoke of.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m-kinghorn/photo/image1.jpg
Not sure what this one is?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m-kinghorn/photo/image2.jpg
British Airways 757

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m-kinghorn/photo/image3.jpg
British Airways 757

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m-kinghorn/photo/image4.jpg
Not sure of this one either?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m-kinghorn/photo/image5.jpg
American Airlines 767

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Very good. The AA767 has turned out well.

As for the ones your not sure on, I would say the first one is a BMI fokker 100 and the MD-80 aircraft Alitalia.