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Night Voyager...

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:48 pm
by Tonkenna
I know not everyone likes the Voyager... but I do LOL and I could her landing tonight whilst out shooting the night sky...

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Voyager ZZ330 on approach by ZZ330, on Flickr

Tonks :mrgreen:

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:12 am
by vololiberista
Tonkenna wrote:I know not everyone likes the Voyager... but I do LOL and I could her landing tonight whilst out shooting the night sky...

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Voyager ZZ330 on approach by ZZ330, on Flickr

Tonks :mrgreen:
Are you sure that's "voyager?" That looks more like a UFO :mrgreen:
Good photo though!
vololiberista

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:29 am
by Gsxr600
How long was the exposure time? Surprising there isnt any sign of the Voyager at all, even a darker bit of sky round the trail of lights. Great image, impressively crisp and sharp.

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:22 pm
by Tonkenna
Cheers guys... I rang ops up after it had landed to check lol. Exposure was 30 secs!

Tonks :mrgreen:

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:50 pm
by Jelle Hieminga
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:mrgreen:

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:29 pm
by petet16
^^ Make it so ^^

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:12 pm
by Bill1980
Not a bad aircraft as all, and quite aesthetically pleasing, but not the late Queen of the Skies.

My golden rule when posting on forums is to avoid religion and especially politics, so I shall steer clear of discussing the Voyager's procurement :-)////)

Nice photo by the way :D

Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:50 pm
by Tonkenna
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It is rumoured that they didn't want to name it with a name that could be connected to Star Trek... sadly there were no fans in the office when they picked Voyager =D> :lol:

Tonks :wink:

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:44 pm
by Bill1980
It's just as well for you, as a Voyager pilot, they didn't call it the Kobayashi Maru :lol:

(A Star Trek fan as well as a VC10 fan, for my sins...)

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:22 pm
by petet16
Or the Klingon :-)////)

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:32 pm
by Bill1980
Or better still, with an eccentric Damon Lindelof script, Voyager will enter an alternate timeline where an ailing Boeing was nationalised by the US Gov back in 1977 and subsequently went under. Where William Shatner never existed. Meanwhile, Vickers has just rolled out the VC21 in the wake of a series of best selling airliners and military transports :D

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:29 am
by Craig
Bill1980 wrote:Not a bad aircraft as all, and quite aesthetically pleasing, but not the late Queen of the Skies.

My golden rule when posting on forums is to avoid religion and especially politics, so I shall steer clear of discussing the Voyager's procurement :-)////)

Nice photo by the way :D
A bit dull looking, but they are good to travel on so not knocking it!

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:50 am
by Tonkenna
they are good to travel on
They are indeed Craig... the feedback we get is excellent. I actually think the 330 is the better looking of the Airbus family. I know all modern jets look the same but I like it. I think the 787 looks great to...

Tonks :-)////)

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:33 am
by vololiberista
Tonkenna wrote:
they are good to travel on
They are indeed Craig... the feedback we get is excellent. I actually think the 330 is the better looking of the Airbus family. I know all modern jets look the same but I like it. I think the 787 looks great to...

Tonks :-)////)
Of the Airbuses the 330 and 340 are the ones I prefer.
As for the 787? One wonders if it could withstand an intertropical convergence storm assuming the crew were stupid enough to penetrate it!
vololiberista

Re: Night Voyager...

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 3:40 pm
by Tonkenna
Well... having flown past this the other day I am not sure if much would survive it!

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Storm Cloud 2 by ZZ330, on Flickr

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Storm cloud by ZZ330, on Flickr

It was the most active storm I have seen in 27 years of flying!

Tonks --+0+--