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nbquidditch

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Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« on: July 25, 2009, 10:33:07 PM »
Hey guys managed to record and get an eyeball (right over the top of me) of the inaugural flight of Hellenic Imperial Airways B747-200 SX-TIE into EGBB (Birmingham) tonight!
Not often we get Jumbo's coming into EGBB!

A new weekly service began between Birmingham and Athens, with onward connections to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.  This new weekly service is hoped to increase to a twice weekly service in August, subject to demand.

Cheers.
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malc41

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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2009, 09:30:42 AM »
Any idea of the callsign?
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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2009, 09:37:06 AM »
It came over my house here in Northampton at about 9500ft (the lowest we get 747's generally), unfortunatley not ADS-B and also no callsign showing on ANRB, callsign should be HT269 I believe.
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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2009, 09:43:41 AM »
Hey Malc, sorry wasn't switched on at the time to here the call sign!
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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2009, 11:23:17 AM »
Ok thanks for that guys
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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 01:47:22 PM »
Quote from: Really on July 26, 2009, 09:37:06 AM
unfortunatley not ADS-B

Well it was a Classic 747, so may well never have been fitted with the right kit.
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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2009, 02:53:37 PM »
None of the IMP B742s have ADS-B, in fact they don't display Flight IDs either, so you didn't miss anything  :-)
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Re: Birmingham Inaugral Flight!
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2009, 06:24:53 PM »
Quote from: Fenris on July 27, 2009, 01:47:22 PM
Quote from: Really on July 26, 2009, 09:37:06 AM
unfortunatley not ADS-B

Well it was a Classic 747, so may well never have been fitted with the right kit.


I wasn't expecting that it would.  I knew by it's height when it would be over my area (if at all) so at about 11'000 feet I went outside and within 30 seconds or so she came over :-)

I'm glad I did see it as when it starts it's service in August it will be at a time when i'm at work so would always miss it.
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