City-Scapes from the USA

For my latest travels I am going to the USA. For work and for Pleasure this week long road trip will see me cross the continental USA with nearly 10 stops. 

From my last trip though I managed to get some wonderful pictures of New York and San Diego. Im delighted to share these pictures on the Plane Sight Images website

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As an example of what you can expect on the site see below, remember these images are available to buy as 6x4 prints, or indeed any other size you want, or if you want it on a canvas, mug etc... 

Sunset in San Diego

Boats in San Diego Marina

San Diego's skyline at Night

Sundown over the office buildings of San Diego

SO-CAL's beaches

The Chrysler Building in Manhattan

Looking west from Long Island City to Manhattan

The Freedom Tower, nearly complete at Jan 1st !

A beautiful shot of Manhattan on DEC 29th - 2012

Sunset on the 30th DEC over Manhattan 

Midtown in Black and White

The Empire state building

Rockafeller Center at Christmas

The UN Building

A Brief Guide to Plane Spotting at Taipei Songshan TSA

Back in March 2011 I had the pleasure to visit Taipei's mostly Domestic airport or Songshan (TSA). For nearly two hours there was a steady precession of airliners from a variety of Taiwanese airlines, along with a planes few from Japan and the Taiwanese Air Force. 

As always pictures for purchase or your personal viewing are available on my website, in the Taipei Gallery :

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For cheap flights to and from Taipei / Taiwan have a look at :

Eva Air Website
China Airlines website
Uni Air Website

Great views are possible from the Runway 10 End of the airport. This is the predominant runway used at TSA. "Lane 180" is about a 5 minute taxi ride from TSA's terminals and is well served and within walking distance of the Metro system. Walking down Longjuang Road, Turn left and follow the small road/lane that leads to Lane 180. When you arrive, expect few issues with Police, but also some locals a mix of spotters with camera's and those just interested to see what your doing! The undershoot to the runway appears to be an allotment / rubbish dump? Along the side of the runway great views are possible, but these are south facing. After midday is best at the end of the runway for sun placement.

Aircraft range from Islanders, to Dash 8-300's to B737 types. In additionl some A330's are possible from Eva Air and China Airlines. For most pictures a small 18-100mm lens will do the job.

An ERJ-190 approaches, seen from Minzu East Road

EVA Air A330-200 on short final over the allotment, with the landing lights clearly visable

Local Spotters and visitors on Bikes clamour for a picture as an Eva Air A330-200 lands on Runway 10

Special Liveries also appear, such as on B-16829 of Mandarin Airlines ERJ-190

1315, a C-130 of the Taiwanese Air Force shares the runway with Civil Movements

B-15233 is a Dash 8-300 of Uni Air operating domestic flights

From the other side of the runway, Taipei 101 can frame your pictures.

British Airways - To Fly To Serve

British Airways is on something of a resurgence.

Its latest advert, shown this week for the first time, is carrying on its predecessors new work in showing BA as a full service carrier, investing in its fleet and product, emphasising Value For Money, not low cost and above all pushing its new slogan To Fly To Serve

To Fly To Serve Advert

BA mainly operate out of London using Heathrow, Gatwick and City Airports, but also Cargo flights out of Stansted are run on a BA liveried B747-8F. BA are park of the ONE World Allicance including major airlines like Cathay Pacific, American Airlines, LATAM, QANTAS and JAL. Their Executive Club rewards can be redeemed on all these carriers. 

After buying bmi last year, the full integration of that carrier has allowed a number of new destinations to be launched such as Leeds-Bradford, Eindhoven, Zagreb and most recently Austin, TX using the newly delivered Boeing 787-8. 

Have a look at some of the best BA images i've taken of British Airways aircraft on the link below. Should you be looking for travel or want to know more about BA, then check out ba.com for pricing and offers.

British Airways Pictures on Plane Sight Images

BA website

An A320 recently arrived at Barcelona

A Boeing triple 7 arrives in Bermuda

During a turnaround in Bermuda this Gatwick based Triple 7 basks in the sunshine

In Innsbruck an A319 awaits de-icing

A Boeing 747-400 in a right turn from runway 09R at Heathrow

American Airlines, a oneworld member, Boeing 777-200 cuts through a contrail leaving Heathrow

A BA 319 leaving Heathrow and an RAF C-17 above

Some friendly crew in Amsterdam