Air China A350-900 pushes back from stand 54 under the bridge at LGW on Monday, bound for Shanghai.

NetJets Citation XLS preparing for departure to Paris on Monday. from LGW.

a person is sitting in a car with their head out the window and their hand on the steering wheel . ALT: a person is sitting in a car with their head out the window and their hand on the steering wheel .

She is okay, I worry about the rest of us.

That’s a great phrase “a life long lapse of judgment” 👏🏻

Thank you Jonny. 👍

German Airways E190LR under dramatic skies at LGW yesterday.
Did they used to be German Wings?

This one is for @jonnyjaero.bsky.social
Aurigny ATR-72-600 G-ISLP at LGW yesterday.

To the @bsky.app Airbus pilot community-
You know when you are preparing for departure and you get those annoying NAV RA 1 or 2 faults on ECAM?
This is often the cause. Loaders parked under your Rad Alt antennas. So chill, wait till loading’s done and your message will probably clear all by itself.

American Express’s perfectly presented G650ER. If I didn’t believe that executive jets were an environmentally destructive symbol of excessive cooperate greed, then I’d probably think this thing was pretty darn cool.

I thought I’d get a couple of snaps of our resident A380s in the sunshine this morning, but that big grey lamp post in the pic on the left was spoiling them. Thankfully ChatGPT was happy to remove it for me!

It is certainly distinctive! But there’s a reason no one else has used it, vertical stripes don’t work!

Aurigny ATR 72? Didn’t catch that one I’m afraid.

It really brings me no pleasure to share this picture with you. Perhaps I’m in a minority, but this Condor livery is not to my liking. D-ANCZ at LGW today. #ExThomasCook

British Airways B777 G-YMMD slips its earthly shackles en route for Mexican sunshine.

Desertec itself might be dead, but the principle is sound. The engineering is feasible, the technology exists. It is the politics and perhaps the investment dynamics that continue to make it challenging

Electrify everything on the ground makes sense, but aviation is a special case. From what are you going to make the additional 99% of SAF aviation fuel ?

Hydrogen can be stored (geologically) at very large scales, but its round trip efficiency is poor. Doesn’t matter too much if you have loads of surplus wind and solar energy.

Giga-scale North African solar with trans-Mediterranean interconnects might make sense to cover low wind and sun periods in Northern Europe.

Batteries can already store energy for long periods- months, it is just too expensive to use batteries in this way. You earn money each time you discharge a battery and sell the power to the grid. You need to do this often to pay for still relatively expensive batteries.

Again, I don’t mean to be negative, but batteries are nowhere near the energy density for air travel. Supplies of SAF currently less than 1% of jet fuel and approx 3x the price. Very optimistic predictions claim 50% by 2050. So a pivot to renewables isn’t going to help air travel anytime soon.

I’m enthusiastic about renewables and battery storage, but batteries are still way expensive for long duration storage. They only make money when you discharge them, you need to cycle them regularly to make them pay. For longer term we need something else, and I don’t have much faith in Hydrogen.

If we’re choosing favourites while the old pre-winglet Southwest 737 is cool, I’m going to have to choose the A340-600 with the crazy paint- it’s just so long!

Bombardier CL600 Challenger of Canadian outfit FlyGTA. Their home airport is Billy Bishop Toronto City YTZ, but this aircraft arrived on Friday from Toronto Pearson YYZ.

This thing never fails to amaze, no matter how often you see it up close. Long may it reign.
LGW this weekend.

This is a good looking aeroplane isn’t it? Like a mini A350. Swiss A220 arriving at LGW Saturday afternoon.

B737-300 of 2Excel Aviation at LGW on a round trip from Liverpool. A fairly safe bet that it was carrying the Liverpool football team for their away match at Brighton. Liverpool lost by the way. #BHAFC

Here’s what’s going on at LGW today, double A380, Flight Calibration DA-62, and the inevitable sunset over the bridge shot.

It says much more about me than it does about the writer of this headline that my first thought upon reading it was-
Perhaps the successor will be Jewish Knitting

There should be a tax on dogs. To pay for all the ways that dogs cause minor harm to non dog owners.
Crap on pavements
Loud barking
Scaring children
Unwanted attention

Great picture of the Ag-Cat. I love the white Jaguar XJ6 in the background.

Following a bit of googling G-BCXI was written off in an accident in June 1976 in Lincolnshire and the Jag is M registration- 1973, so the photo must have been taken between those dates.