Any 777 landing is impressive, but these are a bit special.
The last shot is the preceding one with the engines enlarged to highlight the vortices which spin up and over the wing from the little engine fins (strakes) at big wing tilts.
VIDEO 096...
Two arrivals on Runway 15.
- EZ-A011 Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 757-22K
- AP-BHX PIA Boeing 777-240/ER ("Nature's Orchard" livery)
Filmed on 16th December 2012.
Birmingham Airport's runway extension goes far beyond a few hundred metres of concrete. It will change the game for long-haul travel, create new jobs, open up trading opportunities and save thousands of miles in unnecessary surface journeys.
In the first of these two Emirates 777 landings, the weird 'howl' (can't think of a good word to describe it) from the wake turbulence peaks at around 50 seconds in the video - about 34 seconds after the plane has gone by. My experience is that 777's don't usually make much wake noise, but this is probably the loudest I have ever heard from any plane.
In the second landing, the wake is much less audible but its turbulence is very visible.
Transaero 747-300 departing Birmingham Airport, BHX-EGBB heading to Bruntingthorpe to be scrapped, she departed just before mid-day on Monday 3rd December 2012.
This Russian 747 had diverted to Birmingham because of fog at Bruntingthorpe where it was headed to be scrapped. It left BHX Monday 3rd December 2012 on its final short hop - there is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wEDG623QE of its arrival a few minutes later at Bruntingthorpe.
Had to smile a bit at the convoy of vehicles which scoured the BHX runway immediately after departure.
MONARCH Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), the award-winning independent aircraft maintenance provider, has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art facility at Birmingham Airport, creating up to 300 jobs for the region.
Filmed over a few weeks... shows tower being assembled, Radar Dish installed and finally operating (6th Nov 2012) Filmed from the top of multi-story carpark.
A day of 36 knot (41 mph) crosswind gusts makes for some hard landings and twisty take-offs. These shots are speeded up for fun, also to show a few things which are less noticeable at normal speed. Place: runway 33 at BHX, where the airport buildings reportedly can cause wind shear. Just to make things even more fun for the pilots, the ILS wasn't working so the non-directional beacon was used on approach.
Please don't think this video pokes fun at anyone - these guys do a brilliant job getting these things down whatever's thrown at them.
The runway extension works are opening up unfamiliar views of the runway - for the time being anyway. These shots are from the A45 Coventry Road close to where the extension will be.
Tristar engine blast showering debris at Birmingham Airport Runway 15
October 2012 Birmingham International Airport
Blast of air at 1:40 and you can see grass and twigs and dust flying past.
They must've just mowed the runway.
The second shot is the hardest landing that I have witnessed. The first shot is a more typical bounce, also by a Boeing 757, which is included for comparison purposes. In neither case did the spoilers deploy on first ground contact to counteract the bounce.
In the big bounce, initial contact was with the upslope of the bump in runway 33 at BHX, which may have been at least partly responsible for the size of the bounce (the planned southerly extension of the runway should move this bump beyond the main touchdown zone in future).
There was a 90-degree crosswind for both landings.
AVRO VULCAN XH558 FLY PAST BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT 29-9-2012 FILMED USING A CANON XF300 Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 10 THE LIGHT WAS GREAT 10MINS BEFORE AND 10MINS AFTER THE FLIGHT RUBBISH WHEN IT CAME OVER
After 10 years, airline bmibaby.com ceased passenger operations on 9th September 2012, but four planes were left over at BHX. They left for Norwich for storage on Monday 10th September. It was sad to see them line up one by one on runway 15 on a a windy late morning for their final departures.
Best wishes and best of luck to all the airline's staff.
Published on 25 Aug 2012
Anyone on board Monarch flight MON5485 (ZB5485) from Venice or Ryanair RYR3KY (FR1212) to Bydgoszcz on 21st August 2012 might be wondering what happened at the Birmingham end of their flights. Here is the answer. You might also like to watch a playback on Flightradar24.com from about 11-30am UTC on that date (which doesn't show the Ryanair) or better, on planefinder.net from 12-30pm local time which shows all planes.
These are all ten landings on runway 15 in a 20-minute period at BHX. The gusty 16 knot crosswind from the right was similar to the one which created some difficulties for pilots in video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN27CUrdow4. In at least a couple of the landings here extra thrust had to be applied on the approach because of sudden speed drops due to the wind conditions - listen how the pilot whacks on the power from about 1 minute 20 seconds in the fourth landing (Monarch A320).
The planes in order are: Airbus A321, Boeing 757, A321, A320, AT-72, A321, Boeing 737, A320, Boeing 777, 752.
As smooth and unfussy a landing as you could see in bad weather, as the huge Emirates 777 eases into Birmingham in heavy rain - a six hour flight from Dubai and total contrast in conditions made to look like child's play. The General Electric GE90-115B1 engines are (I think) the most powerful ever put on a production aircraft, producing around 50 tonnes of thrust each.
Flight UAE39 on a very windy final approach to runway 33 at Birmingham, showing the skill of the pilot as the plane straightens up moments before touch down
A landing Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 757 and Ryanair Boeing 737 kick up a spray storm by directing reverse engine thrust onto the wet runway surface on a rainy June morning.
Hey everyone, I'm back from Wales now. This video shows a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 777-240ER Land at Birmingham International Airport (BHX/EGBB). The registration is AP-BGJ. This aircraft arrives almost daily from Islamabad. This was recorded in Mid March from the Sheldon Country Park at Birmingham Airport.
On the left side of the video is the missed approach to runway 33, on the right side is the successful landing about 12 minutes later. The plane is the same distance from the camera in the two views. Following this is the aborted landing with exaggerated contrast to show exactly when the engines are throttled up. I don't know why the landing was aborted, but there was a gusty north-easterly crosswind that day and the plane clearly rocks a bit. The plane also looks to be quite a bit higher on the aborted landing. Anyway, from the moment thrust was re-applied everything went perfectly.
Birmingham! This shows a BMI (British Midland) A319 (G-DBCG) Land and Takeoff at Birmingham International Airport (BHX/EGBB). Support has been brilliant recently, thanks guys!
Back to the normal pattern now, so every other day. Incase you missed it, I uploaded yesterday because It was Cphspotting's birthday and he requested a video, and he deserved one.
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Anyway, this video shows an Air France Airbus A318 at Birmingham Airport, BHX/EGBB. I beleive this aircraft is reasonably rare at Birmingham, I know AF fly there frequently but I dont remember them using this Aircraft. Maybe any local BHX spotters could drop a comment with some info....:)
The runway at Birmingham Airport (BHX) can be a thing of beauty when seen from some angles - more like a sculpture than a piece of civil engineering. One effect of its sensuous curves is the accidental provision of something resembling the ski-jumps used on aircraft carriers by Harrier jump jets and the like to help push the planes into the sky. Smaller jet airliners, at any rate, seem to time their takeoff perfectly on runway 15 to benefit from this, as shown in the video. It would be great to hear from any pilots whether this actually is intentional.
2nd video of Manic May. This time at Birmingham, recorded mid-April 2012. This shows the daily Emirates 777-300ER Aircraft, Reg: A6-EBL, taking off runway 15 at Birmingham Airport (BHX, EGBB).
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Hey guys, sad times, its the end of the 'Manic May' series. This is the last upload in the series....but dont worry because there's so much more to come, i've got too many videos! haha :) So this shows various Powerful takeoffs, runway 15 from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB). I hope you like this ;) These were recorded from Sheldon country park (around Mid March 2012), comment if you want directions :)
Almost half way through Manic May now! Here Is an Air Berlin Airbus A320 landing and taking off from Birmingham Airport (Runway 15, BHX/EGBB). This was filmed In March from the sheldon country Park at Birmingham. Stay tuned for an important video in the next few days....
Here we see a KLM 737-800 series landing at Birmingham International Airport in Beautifull Winter Sunshine. Video taken on Saturday 11th February 2012.
The day after my birthday i headed down to Birmingham Airport for a few hours spotting. I saw Emirates, Thomas, Cook, BMI, Thomson and much more! I hope you enjoyed and Thanks For Watching! Please comment, like and subscribe! :)