First port of call on this trip to the Far East was Kuala Lumpur. Warm and wet sums it up.

A very pleasant trip to Los Angeles and covering an area as far as Tucson, Flagstaff, Las Vegas, San Francisco back to LA. This took in places such as Sedona, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Napa and The Coast Highway.

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An early morning trip to see the nine Wizz Airs due. The forecast was for early sun, so what happened? Low cloud and a very cold wind. Not ideal but had to be done. Thanks to Graham for his company.

A visit to the airfield to view what new airbuses were on offer. An early departure from Gatwick with Easyjet gives plenty of time to do a tour of the facility if you so desire. Time for a nice meal in the terminal restaurant before returning to Gatwick. Four visits were made in 2006/7, several more in 2008 and the latest visit being made in March this year.

Having left Shanghai we headed to Fukuoka, then on to Osaka, Nagoya and finally Tokyo.

A trip to China and Japan for two weeks. This section will eventually cover the seven days in the People's Republic. The first two day cover the Chengdu area including two visits to Flying colleges. The weather was overcast and very misty the first day with the second being somewhat wet. It was then onward to Beijing, including a visit to the China Aviation Museum at Datangshan (see separate collection). Then south to Wuhan and Guangzhou and finally across to Shanghai before departing to Japan.

A superb collection of China's Aviation history. Set on part of an old air base which includes a cavern through a rather sizable hill. Here are 50 pictures of the more than 200 aircraft exhibited around the museum area.

A couple of very pleasant vacations taken in 2007 and 2008.

Another one dayer, this time with Air Berlin from a very wet Stansted. Once there, the weather was a little wet to start but improved as time went on. Just missed a couple of big storms in the afternoon that went either side of the airfield. Thanks to Phil (BA) for getting the airside access on the first half of the day.
A second oneday visit was made a couple of years later which resulted in better weather.

Covered several museums over the tour and also places with Gate Guards so as most are military I thought it would be better to split the pictures up for those that go for one or the other.

An Alpha Mike Tour from Montreal to Vancouver. Well worth it, including my first flight in a DC-3 across the Great Slave Lake of the Nothwest Territories. Contrast of old and new, Yellowknife and Toronto, Red Deer and Vancouver, pistons, turboprops and jets and finally floats and wheels. Enjoy the contrast, I did.

Another holiday to the Southwest USA with a few airfields visited en-route but including visits to Monument Valley, Four Corners and Sedona.

The end to another long winter brought the camera out at Heathrow with the sun and the start of hopefully a long hot summer with plenty for the camera to look at!! Time will tell. See also "New Tower of London" for more pictures taken from the New VCR prior to becoming operational in April 2007.

A couple of sunny holidays in September 2006 and October 2007 to Fuerteventura provided some photo opportunities at the airport on the way home on each occasion.

2007's extravoganza of military aircraft.

easyjet day out from Gatwick.

Another easyJet day out to the land of tulips and interesting airliners.

I had visited the New VCR on a few occasions during the work-up phase and the one big plus is the views on a good day. There are however a lot of reflections on the glass which is very difficult to avoid when taking photos.
The New Tower officially opened for business at 0200 on Saturday 21st April 2007.
New pictures from the tower will be under "Around Heathrow 2007".

The first trip of another year with easyJet took us to Madrid to enjoy a cold, misty and cloudy day on the "mound". Not much use for photos but took a few anyway.

Various pictures taken airside and from the Control Tower of some of the newer or more interesting visitors.

Another easyJet day out. On arrival, greeted by low cloud and very cold temperatures. The viewing area has glass all the way round which causes a lot of reflections. The sun did however come out eventually.

A quick visit to see the F-16s visiting from Aviano that were deployed for an exercise.

Some photos taken over the last few years showing Terminal 5, the New VCR, Pier 6 and T3 Car Park as they develop. The latest being the demolition of the old MCP3.

Another early morning departure from Luton saw us back in Amsterdam for the day. Very hot, so some of it was spent in the cool of the bar!!

The Farnborough Air Show. As usual a small number of aircraft are crammed into an even smaller space making photography very difficult. This was compounded this year by yours truly, who forgot his wide angle lens!!! What a prat!!

A poor show in comparison to previous years. Some of the aircraft were very badly parked as well, seeing that there was so much space available. Even so a good day was had by all and some nice photos taken as a reminder.

A day out with easyJet from Luton for the huge sum of £30 seemed like a good idea. The visit was a hot sunny day which wasn't condusive to photographs for the first part of the day and thereafter there was a lot of heat haze. A few of the better ones are reproduced below.

A day out with Germanwings from Stansted to Cologne to view and photograph some of the aircraft operating in and out during the day.

Family trip to Los Angeles and then by road to Arizona, via Tucson, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon and Kingman, on to Las Vegas, Nevada and back to LA. The trip was mostly holiday but on several occasions stops were made at various locations to take in the aviation scenery!!!
For pictures taken on the AMARC tour at Davis Monthan AFB, see separate collection.

The standard Pima County organised coach trip around the storage area of Davis Monthan AFB with photos taken through the coach windows.

A day out to Madrid from Luton with easyJet just before the opening of the new terminal.

Various non aircraft pictures (well mostly).

A selection of the newer or more interesting airline visitors seen by myself at Heathrow over the year.

This trip was from Heathrow to Amsterdam to Minneapolis and on to Atlanta. From there we went by car to Memphis, Dallas, Houston and back to Atlanta, making several other stops at various locations. We then flew back via Memphis and Amsterdam.

A selection of the newer or more interesting airline visitors seen by myself at Heathrow over the year.

A couple of trips to Europe with a view to photographing some of the airliners on view at Frankfurt and Paris.

A day out at Schipol, the morning was OK but the weather deteriorated dramatically at about lunchtime and the viewing area was closed. Went back airside and photographed from the end of one of the piers.

A few of the aircraft seen on a rare visit to this outpost of the aviation world!!

A trip to the SW USA for a week mostly to see the stored aircraft in the area. Some time spent at LAX and a trip to the Miramar Air Show was also included.