where are they going to park all the planes?

[M4cruiser]

Amusing quote from local radio:-

"British Airways airliners have landed at Bournemouth Airport – including seven hundred and forty seven Jumbo Jets."

Wow, no wonder the taxiways are packed ...

[yellowjack]

M4cruiser said:

Amusing quote from local radio:-

"British Airways airliners have landed at Bournemouth Airport – including seven hundred and forty seven Jumbo Jets."

Wow, no wonder the taxiways are packed ...

I've been past Bournemouth (Hurn) a couple of times since the BA fleet arrived. I can confirm that there are only five Boeing seven hundred and forty seven four hundreds parked there...

Also these four Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600s...



Closest to camera is G-VFIT ("Dancing Queen") In the distance under the left wing is one of the BA 747s, and under the right wing is the totally unique Conroy Skymonster that has been gathering dust at Bournemouth for at least a decade now.

Now retired, if those A340s don't find a buyer it's highly likely they'll end up being "recycled" like this sad bunch...

[motomk]

Singapore A380s going for a sleep in Alice Springs with some of their friends.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-28/during-coro...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7MlF3EnyfA
https://www.flightglobal.com/fleets/sia-to-move-a-...

[alangla]

Various pics of the lengthening scrapline increasing number of stored planes at Teruel & Tarbes - https://twitter.com/TarmacAerosave

[yellowjack]

yellowjack said:

...Also these four Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600s...



Closest to camera is G-VFIT ("Dancing Queen") In the distance under the left wing is one of the BA 747s, and under the right wing is the totally unique Conroy Skymonster that has been gathering dust at Bournemouth for at least a decade now.

One of those ex-Virgin A340s was in the air again this week, bringing PPE back from China/Malaysia to Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport. Complete with a new "Thank You NHS" livery. The story appeared on BBC South Today, and ITV Meridian News local news bulletins last night. Plans afoot to get all four of the A340s at Hurn readied for service in the role too. The boss of European Aviation Group was interviewed and said they'd be bringing in 20 Million pairs of gloves in the next lift. Cargo all strapped/netted in boxes on the passenger seats.


Source:
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18410848.co...

[BrettMRC]

Conroy Skymonster?

One for the "Planes you never knew existed" thread!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Skymonster

[MarkwG]

BrettMRC said:

Conroy Skymonster?

One for the "Planes you never knew existed" thread!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Skymonster

Indeed, been rotting away here for years; the scrapmans axe is ever poised, but he never quite gets his prize. There was a flurry of activity a little while ago, but nothing seemed to come of it, too far gone to ever fly again I suspect..

[yellowjack]

MarkwG said:

BrettMRC said:

Conroy Skymonster?

One for the "Planes you never knew existed" thread!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Skymonster

Indeed, been rotting away here for years; the scrapmans axe is ever poised, but he never quite gets his prize. There was a flurry of activity a little while ago, but nothing seemed to come of it, too far gone to ever fly again I suspect..

Poor quality image, due to cheap smartphone at max. zoom, but...

...this is how it looked on April 15th 2020. Stbd inboard prop missing and access ladders around that engine.

More pictures here... https://www.strava.com/activities/3303527249 ...of many of the parked aeroplanes at Hurn right now. All taken during a cycle ride I took to Hurn for exercise purposes.

[NM62]

BrettMRC said:

Conroy Skymonster?

One for the "Planes you never knew existed" thread!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Skymonster

Remember that with the “44” on the tail.

[BrettMRC]

yellowjack said:

Poor quality image, due to cheap smartphone at max. zoom, but...

...this is how it looked on April 15th 2020. Stbd inboard prop missing and access ladders around that engine.

More pictures here... https://www.strava.com/activities/3303527249 ...of many of the parked aeroplanes at Hurn right now. All taken during a cycle ride I took to Hurn for exercise purposes.

Thanks for sharing

[FunkyNige]

FunkyNige said:

Some of the smaller BA planes are parked up at Norwich, can't find a decent photo but here's a link to the local paper
https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/a-number-of-briti...
Never seen them parked up there before.

A month since this post, I drove past Norwich airport last night and there are now about 40 planes parked up. BA, KLM, some other odds and sods and 6-7 plane white planes that I'm guessing (or my wife guessed) are the planes run by the companies that lease planes to the airlines when they need a spare.

[CRA1G]

I pass Leeds & Bradford Airport regularly and I can hear really loud jet engines but nothing taking off so I presume they have to keep starting them up.?

[aeropilot]

CRA1G said:

I pass Leeds & Bradford Airport regularly and I can hear really loud jet engines but nothing taking off so I presume they have to keep starting them up.?

Yes. Anti-det routinues.

[MarkwG]

FunkyNige said:

6-7 plane white planes that I'm guessing (or my wife guessed) are the planes run by the companies that lease planes to the airlines when they need a spare.

Sometimes yes, but I believe the ones you're thinking of are either in long term store awaiting sale, or scrapping - they've been parked up for a while.

[yellowjack]

MarkwG said:

FunkyNige said:

6-7 plane white planes that I'm guessing (or my wife guessed) are the planes run by the companies that lease planes to the airlines when they need a spare.

Sometimes yes, but I believe the ones you're thinking of are either in long term store awaiting sale, or scrapping - they've been parked up for a while.

Similar at Bournemouth. There's a company that sells and leases aircraft, and also a company (maybe the same one?) that breaks them up at the end of life stage. The four ex-Virgin Atlantic A340-600s they have are having the Virgin livery removed one-by-one for onward sale or lease, and there were a couple of Boeing 737s (I think) in a hangar in all-over white paint too.

[MarkwG]

yellowjack said:

MarkwG said:

FunkyNige said:

6-7 plane white planes that I'm guessing (or my wife guessed) are the planes run by the companies that lease planes to the airlines when they need a spare.

Sometimes yes, but I believe the ones you're thinking of are either in long term store awaiting sale, or scrapping - they've been parked up for a while.

Similar at Bournemouth. There's a company that sells and leases aircraft, and also a company (maybe the same one?) that breaks them up at the end of life stage. The four ex-Virgin Atlantic A340-600s they have are having the Virgin livery removed one-by-one for onward sale or lease, and there were a couple of Boeing 737s (I think) in a hangar in all-over white paint too.

that would be European Aviation - https://www.euroav.com/aircraft-engineering-suppor... - charters, conversions, interiors, spares & breaking. You name it, they do it. They tend to buy end of passenger carrying life big jets, from the likes of BA, Emirates, Virgin, fly some as charter, breaking the others as & when. Bit like the venerable farmyard pig, everything gets used but the squeak. They're owned by Paul Stoddart, former owner of Minardi F1, & they used fly some of the F1 charters too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stoddart

[Buzz84]

European Aviation have been using one of the A340's to do the China PPE/supplies flights:

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18410848.am...

[patchb]

I was cycling through Bournemouth a couple of days ago and one of the virgin A340s flew over which confused me as I thought they were there for scrap but this thread clears it up!

Also that skymonster thing has been there for as long as I can remember, I didn’t actually think it was a real plane, thought it was for fire training or something!!

[Europa1]

Buzz84 said:

European Aviation have been using one of the A340's to do the China PPE/supplies flights:

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18410848.am...

Already posted (on the day the story appeared), a few posts above yours.

[MarkwG]

patchb said:

Also that skymonster thing has been there for as long as I can remember, I didn’t actually think it was a real plane, thought it was for fire training or something!!

It does have that look about it - I can remember when it was flying operationally: a bit of a strange bird. It was designed for a very specific task; when that didn't really pan out, it was in limbo a bit; too small for the massive stuff, too inefficient once the jets took over, for regular cargo.