Bright sunny skies were forecast so I took a trip over to Stansted as Saturdays are quite reasonable for STN at the moment but unfortunately the skies were far from bright for much of the time so not the results I had hoped for.
they were using runway 22 and for starters i thought I would go down towards Hallingbury for some departures - hoping for the Pan Alpina 747-8 which went back to stand until well after i had moved on and the Atlas 747-4 which diverted in - that was still on stand when I left around 14.00 so those plans were shot to bits!
anyway these two departed and got a reasonable angle on the Ryanair:
then I went off to the Molehill Green area to capture the Cargolux 747-400 arriving:
approaching:
passing:
going - about to drop below the trees:
a couple of others to pass the time whilst I waited for the Martinair MD.11 which was running late:
I gave up on the Martinair as it was running even later than expected and walked back along the footpath to my car and half way back to the airport the flight called up so round I turned and parked in a layby near Broxted (hadnt tried this spot before) and got these shots of it:
C&C welcome
Thanks for posting.
