FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW 2024. The Big 3 passenger jet departures. A350; 787 and A339. 24/25 July 2024.

Описание: Sadly the "Big 3" brand new passenger jets that were on static display at Farnborough Airshow 2024 earlier in the week, had all left by the Thursday evening, 25 July. Here are the 3 big jets:
First off; Air India Airbus A350-900 VT-JRH. Delivered to Air India new on 16 April, and in the new Air India livery, we see the aircraft first on static display (filmed Monday 22nd July) and then lined up on Runway 24, ready for departure on Wednesday evening, 24th July, positioning to London Gatwick as flight AI1148, before departing Gatwick later that evening for Delhi.

Next up we see brand new Virgin A330-900, G-VRSB, (first flight only on 14th June this year) on static display on Monday 22nd July and then being towed and pushed back along the length of Runway 24, on Thursday evening, 25th July, ready to depart to Heathrow as flight VS 841P. Listen to the lovely bass sound of the Rolls Royce power plant as both are spooled up on the Runway - love it!

During airshow week, aircraft landing at Farnborough had to rely on visual approach rather than the normal ILS. On Thursday evening, cloud cover was extremely low due to persistent rain and continually below minimums for visual approaches for landing aircraft. After the Virgin aircraft departs and the final big jet, Qatar Boeing 787-9 A7-BHQ is lined up for tow back along the runway, we hear a Boeing 737 approach but execute a missed approach (for the 4th time). This aircraft diverted to London Stansted after this final attempt at landing. Details on the film.

So last up is the Qatari 787-9 A7-BHQ which I caught landing prior to the airshow (see separate film on this channel) and which was on static display during the earlier part of airshow week. This aircraft departed in fading light at 08.30 p.m. BST, Thursday evening, heading for Doha as flight callsign 3293. This aircraft is also brand new, first flight being only 22nd June this year.
So that's the end of Airshow 2024 - hope you've enjoyed this snapshot of Airshow films on my channel - or better still hope you got the chance to see the sights and hear the amazing sounds for yourself! Best wishes Steve