Air Travel—CFFC

After the stress of a Bank Holiday Weekend, it’s good to unwind by reminding ourselves of the stress of Air Travel 🤣 Here’s my response to Dan’s prompt for this week’s Fun Foto Challenge…

To fly we need to get to the airport. There’s all sorts of ways to do that but the major airports around London have dedicated train services. Here’s a Gatwick Express train passing through East Croydon in 2014…

On arrival we will likely see buildings specific to air operations like the Control Tower – This one is at Reina Sofia, Tenerife…

And, once airborne, there’s the obligatory engine above the clouds shot…

Some people like flying – Others don’t. I used to love it but then I had shared ownership of G-BBIL. Taken at her home – Andrewsfield – in 1994…

These guys clearly love their flying 🤣…

Air passengers come in all shapes and sizes. Photographed in 1981 at Luton, this venerable Bristol Britannia of Aer Turas almost certainly had race horses on board as providing transport for stables was their speciality…

Some people fly for business and some for pleasure. A corporate jet begins its approach to Northolt as a KLM flight passes above in the climb…

Finally, a British Airways ‘red-eye’ flight gets a direct routing off Lambourne for approach to Heathrow…