Filton 21-09-09

Piper PA-34 G-MAXI carrying out a Go Round

Fiton 09-09-09

Bristol 1/2 Marathon 06 September 2009

Race Result

1hr 48mins 46sec and 2998th out of 16000.

Up at 6am, out to walk the dog,

breakfast (2x Weetabix anda Banana)

Leave home at 7.45 and parked up at 8.05.

Walk down from the car park and look around,

This is me, ready to run!

Bimble over to the blue start

take a few photos,

and start sweating.

This is also me, really ready to run.
Training done, buckets of sweat left on the streets

of Lockleaze, Filton and out around the Mall shopping centre.

No wonder its been a wet summer.
Not rain falling but sweat.

Andrew (no 3 son) ready to cheer me on.

He should have been running but managed to pick

up a knee injury at rugby yesterday.

Thats me (in the middle of the photo)

at around 91/2 miles.

The forcast was for cloudy conditions and light wind

with a temperature of 12 degrees. Well the cloud was very broken
and made it quite hot at times.

Ooh that big Ugly one again 05-09-09

Here she comes again.

The Airbus MEGA BUS A 380

F-WWOW back for another visit.
Here for the 60th anniversary of the

Bristol Brabason.

Look at those wings, they are pretty sexy

and very curvy

Also out to play were too Lockhead C-130s
ZH885 a C 130J

And this C 130 C3 XV202.
I've worked on this one.

Some time between 1980 and 1985 at RAF Lyneham.

Filton is still alive, 02-09-09 PART 2

Returning from training at 12.53 was PA-28 G-BBXW.

Vickers Ship building company had 2 of there

Beech 200's in.

G-CDZT on apron 1

was joined by Beech 200
G-CDFY at 11.53

Filton is still alive, 02-09-09

Training was this Diamond DA 42 G-CTCH

British Midland Regional swapped aircraft

this morning.

EMB 145 G-EMBI arrived from Manchester

as BMA 9131 at 11.41.

With EMB 145 G-RJXC departing to Manchester

as BMA 9132 at 12.26.

Arriving for the 50th anniversary of the
Rolls Royce Pegasus engine that
powers the BAe Harrier,
Royal Air Force Harrier GR 9 ZD321
made a VERY noisy arrival at 11.25.

You guessed it the weather was dodgy

with rain threathing.

Good old Filton.

Class 66 at Abbeywood

Took the grandson out for a walk whilst Ganny was having a break.

Stopped a Filton Abbeywood and this loco passed by in between

a procession on Units.

Freightliner Class 66, No 66623.

This one cheered my grandson up.

Its in Bardon Aggregates colours.