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Spotting at BHX 6th July 2011 Paintheshed 328 views Birmingham on a sunny summer's day rwy 1-5
Spotting Silhouettes @ BHX Paintheshed 141 views Arrivals at BHX on a rainy cloudy June summer's day.
'Birding' at BHX (without Bill Oddie) Paintheshed 124 views A bit of airport manouvres....
BHX 18th May 2011 Paintheshed 103 views Air movements.
Spotting @ BHX 3rd May 2011 Paintheshed 147 views Tailwind arrivals at RWY 1-5
Sunshine & Spotting @ BHX April 2011 Paintheshed 161 views A sunny day when BHX was busy, switching from 33 to runway 1-5 at around 5pm as the tail wind picked up a little. Various air traffic sightings in Birmingham UK.
SPOTTING @ BHX, 2011 Paintheshed 179 views Sunny Summers day and arrivals at 1-5, 8th April 2011
CAT VIDEO; FOR CATS Solo Para Gatos Paintheshed 3,423 views A short film for CATS.
Spotting @ BHX Feb 2011 Paintheshed 88 views Short clips of air traffic operations, England UK.
At The Airport, Birmingham England. Paintheshed 406 views Aeronautical movement, November 2010, BHX

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Paintheshed

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Dec 18, 2011

Date Joined

Aug 2, 2008

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I developed an interest in aviation during the late 1980s, when the noisy British Airways BAC 1-11 was common place at BHX.
I was there in 2003 to see Concorde depart from Birmingham for the final time.

I only use basic compact camera equipment, this makes the playback a bit scratchy at times, but fairly true to the real life experience of standing near a flight path. Well you will see, my films are far from BBC quality, but I do try to make them watchable.

Apart from this (often misunderstood hobby) I've got a fairly normal life too!

I compare 'plane spotting' to fishing! In respect that you can sit there for hours waiting around for something big to come along. When it does.... yes when the highlight of the day lands in front of you, that's the big fish! The one that didn't get away. Spotting is a chance to escape, the freedom & open spaces around the airfield, spoiled only by dog owners and their hair matted poo machines, which stamp at your clothing to leave their individual pawprint designs over you.

A380 is king, and I do marvel at the human achievement and determination that mean't this has become a (partly British) giant reality. The amount of effort involved in the project is mind blowing.

Though we 'take for granted' jetting-off to Spain, or Malta. Simply the resourcing; fossil fuel, processing and refining kerosene for aviation, and this the starting point in a sequence of elements which concur to create the event of flight in the modern age.

Please sit back with your in-flight meal (Pringles) and watch the short films I've made for others, just for fun.

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