Contrail spotting May 2007

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 01 May 2007, 02:12

All (pictorial) reports + discussions of this month are welcomed below.

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 02 May 2007, 14:50

To bad no preliminary info was available on a departure of AN22 UR-09307 which was parked for a couple of days at LUX. On May 2 around 1435LT, saw & heard it on a westbound course overhead BUB as. Great experience, but as the scope was inside sadly no picture of this non-contrailing beast as ADB351F at 18000 ft

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 02 May 2007, 15:55

02/05/07 14-15H Local
My First Time Don't Have A Scope

gr,
vg

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 02 May 2007, 16:10

VG wrote:My First Time Don't Have A Scope

No need to have a scope to post contrails, nice shots btw.
At which location were these made? I've never seen an A340-500 of TG overhead Belgium.

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 02 May 2007, 16:12

Skystef wrote:
VG wrote:My First Time Don't Have A Scope
No need to have a scope to post contrails, nice shots btw.
At which location were these made? I've never seen an A340-500 of TG overhead Belgium.

Eeklo,Oost-Vlaanderen

gr,
lv

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 02 May 2007, 16:19

Ok, if the A340 was cruising westbound around 1440LT, this might be A340-200 JY-AIA as RJA261, saw that one also.

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 02 May 2007, 17:32

02/05/07 16-17H Local

gr,
lv

Glider · Post by **Glider** » 02 May 2007, 17:44

VG wrote:02/05/07 16-17H Local

IMO, number 3 is an A340-600 of Lufthansa. Hopefully to you this helps!

Nice shots; keep them coming!

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 03 May 2007, 17:28

03/05/07 12-13H Local

Some Nice Traffic

gr,
lv

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 03 May 2007, 19:03

I think Skystef is rights with regards to the Royal Jordanian A340.
If you look to the Thai Livery on the A340's it's covering a larger part of the rear fuselage.

Greetings,
Yvo

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 03 May 2007, 21:29

@ VG:
your unknown A340 of May 2 might be a A340 of Kuwait Airways, saw 9K-AND westbound as KAC103 around 1740LT.

your Singapore 747 of May 3 is in fact an Evergreen Jumbo, saw N480EV westbound around 1245LT.

Couple of additions of May 1.

UL608 @ 0753LT Emirates Cargo B747-400 N497MC cruising at 29000 ft enroute Nairobi-Amsterdam as UAE9951.

UL608 @ 1610LT Netjets B737-700BBJ N772BC cruising westbound at 34000 ft.

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 03 May 2007, 22:22

k thanks skystef

was thinking about the paint from singapore however

its not always visible when they got a high alt.

gr,
lv

1V1 · Post by **1V1** » 05 May 2007, 17:29

VG
On the 3th I flew the Dubai-Birmingham. We were flying the Emirates B777-200 and passed over BUB heading west. But it looks to me this a B777-300. Maybe the EK001? He was just in front of us.

greetz

contrailwatcherUK · Post by **contrailwatcherUK** » 06 May 2007, 17:56

Hi,

737

1/5/07 6:40AM

DAL140 8) KJFK-EBBR 1/5/07 8:19AM

GTI8866 KDOV-ETAR 1/5/07 17:15PM

North American Airlines ?-ETAR 2/5/07 16:25PM

SVA904 KIAH-EBBR 2/5/07 19:35PM

UPS203 KPHL-EDDK 2/5/07 20:03PM

NIMROD

2/5/07 20:27PM

WOA8285 with sun reflections 2/5/07 20:43PM

COA60 KEWR-EBBR 3/5/07 7:27AM

CFG51 KMCO-EDDF 3/5/07 7:28AM

COA110 KEWR-EDDK 3/5/07 7:54AM

KAC118

KJFK-OKBK 3/5/07 8:15AM

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 06 May 2007, 21:59

nice shots

the one with the sun reflection on it is very nice

gr,
lv

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 07 May 2007, 00:26

Indeed some good shots contrailwatcherUK, May provided some nice (blue) conditions.

Here my latest selection of an early morning, meaning sun is @ better angle for UL607, this time of May 3.

UL607 @ 0648LT Air Canada A330-300 C-GFUR cruising at 29000 ft enroute Montreal(YUL) - Frankurt as ACA872

UL607 @ 0656LT Privatair B737-700 HB-IIQ cruising at 37000 ft enroute Newark-Munich operating for Lufthansa as DLH413

UL607 @ 0700LT Lufthansa B747-400 D-ABTD cruising at 36000ft enroute Washington(IAD) - Frankfurt as DLH419

UL607 @ 0711LT United Airlines B747-400 N181UA cruising at 36000 ft enroute Washington(IAD) - Frankfurt as UAL916

UL607 @ 0722LT Malev B767-300 HA-LHC cruising at 37000 ft enroute JFK-Budapest as MAH091

UL608 @ 0813LT British Airways B767-300 G-BNWB cruising at 32000 ft enroute Frankfurt-Heathrow as BAW901U

UL607 @ 0822LT Turkish Airlines A340-300 TC-JII cruising at 37000 ft enroute Chicago-Istanbul as THY6

UL607 @ 0826LT Turkish Airlines A330-200 TC-JNA cruising at 37000 ft enroute JFK-Istanbul as THY2

contrailwatcherUK · Post by **contrailwatcherUK** » 07 May 2007, 11:37

Skystef, nice pictures and some nice liveries there too. I like the privatair DLH413... seems like a long way to go for a 737

contrailwatcherUK · Post by **contrailwatcherUK** » 09 May 2007, 22:38

I have some more photos from May 7th
CLX771 on UM140 heading East:

CNO7488 on UR8 heading East

Duke · Post by **Duke** » 10 May 2007, 11:21

@ skystef
Really nice pictures.
What lense do you use?
I tried to take pictures with a 50-250 zoom and zoom in digitally, but the images are blurry...

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 11 May 2007, 01:38

Duke wrote: Really nice pictures.
What lense do you use?
I tried to take pictures with a 50-250 zoom and zoom in digitally, but the images are blurry...

Ok thx, all taken with "a lens" of 1200 mm. With 250 mm it must be also possible to get sharp images, although around 5x smaller than mine. Just try and error and don't be afraid in uploading something overhere.

contrailwatcherUK wrote:737 1/5/07 6:40AM

Always interesting to see unknown airlines, with big tele of 1200 mm chances are quite low in not recognising it. However I have the impression the contrail self is getting overhand in your pictures now, hence aircraft become bit smaller. But pure contrails pictures are OK. Btw my scope even doesn't come out when atmosphere is to dry to form contrails, so the sport starts when I see them.

My guess is that it could be thisaircraft, comes regulary to Europe.