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📍 AIR FRANCE 🇫🇷 | B77W | F-GSQO | Named "Vézelay" | Planespotting : Paris [ORY/LFPO] France
@ AIR FRANCE | FLEET DETAILS
• Country : F- | France 🇫🇷
• Date : 1933 -
• Codes : AF AFR
• Callsign : AirFrans
• Web site : www.airfrance.fr
@ BOEING | 777 - 300 ER | MSN 32961 / 570
• Production Site : Everett (PAE) 🇺🇸
• Serial number : MSN 32961 LN:570
• Type : 777-328ER
• First flight date : 05/06/2006
• Test registration
• Seat configuration : C14 W28 Y430 Seat
• Hex code 394A0E
• Engines : 2 x GE GE90-115B
@ OPERATORS OF THE AIRCRAFT
• 14/06/2006> Air France > F-GSQO > Named Vézelay
• Airframe Status : Active
Concluding some 23hrs of flight, G-STBL as British Airways 15 touching down 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a stunning February morning - 5 Fed '23
'Palm Beach' (VH-VOZ) as 'Velocity 2' from Los Angeles (LAX/KLAX) slowing down 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a cool winters morning June 2015
Once upon a time, in a time of being free to travel, we had planes, lots and lots of planes….
A6-ECP as Emirates 418 lifting off 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) with 2 x Virgin Australia B77W’s underneath on the hard-stands awaiting their next flights!
'Velocity 2' from Los Angeles (LAX/KLAX) seen on short final to 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a stunning morning 25 November 2013 in the best livery they have ever had!!
‘Air India One’ sitting on the hard stands (STILL) whilst Prime Minister Narendra Modi is out and about in Sydney for the QUAD Summit, oh wait, sombody cancelled.... hahaha #quadnotquad
Basking away in the afternoon sun for its final days or weeks, ‘St Kilda Beach’ (VH-VPH) stored at Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport (WTB/YBWW)… Will be leaving the Virgin Australia fleet at some point…
'Speedbird 16' (G-STBC) after pushback and engine start, taxi along 'Alfa' to Alfa 5 34L Sydney Airport due to stricken Qantas A332, and up up and away for London Heathrow via Singapore...
ZK-OKP wearing “The Hobbit” special livery (Nov 2012 - Sept 2016) on taxi out for a 34L departure at Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) for Auckland (AKL/NZAA) as NZ104 13 July 2013!!
American 7911 (N719AN) on short final (and over the Cooks River) for 16R Sydney Airport this morning...
I am surprised at the differences in colours between the 6D (100-400) on the close crop, and the 7D (24-70) over the river, fundamentally the same settings etc at time of taking the shots, just a quick swapping of gear...
Dug SO deep into the archives and found this un-edited frame, what a surprise!!!! Remember Vaustralia??
Vaustralia VH-VPH (later to be named 'St Kilda Beach' when renamed to Virgin Australia December 07, 2011) being pushed, and taken to the hard stands at Sydney Airport after completing VA2 from Los Angeles (LAX/KLAX) - 4 May 2011
From what I can find, VPH is still stored at Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB/YBWW), and is to go to Qatar as A7-BOG - time will tell I suppose!!
The race to London begins - British Airways B77W (BA16 - G-STBE) and Qantas A380 (QF1 - VH-OQK 'John Duigan') both being readied for the Sydney-Singapore-London Heathrow run.... I wonder who won?
'On This Day' 26 January 2011 - VH-VPH as Virgin Australia 29 to Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) airborne 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) in the original 'V Australia' livery....
'VPH' is still listed as 'stored' at Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB/YBWW) after withdrawal from the fleet 10 August 2020.
Etihad 451 being readied for its return to Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) at gate 53 Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY)
Winter morning light is the best with the morning 'Golden Hour' with a very cyan tint, N2250U seen slowing down and vacating 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) as United 863 from San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) on a lovely winters morning...
Velocity 1 - wearing the hybrid Virgin Australia livery, arriving back from Los Angeles on short final 16R Sydney Airport 'Flashback Friday' to 15 November 2013
In the late afternoon light and some long shadows, Singapore Airlines 241 (9V-SWR) from Singapore (SIN/WSSS) landing 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) seen from Blue Sky Helicopters R44
ZK-OKP wearing “The Hobbit” special livery (Nov 2012 - Sept 2016) on taxi out for a 34L departure at Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) for Auckland (AKL/NZAA) as NZ104 13 July 2013!!
Singapore or Sydney?? 😂😂 Wether it’s ‘Self Loading Cargo’ or outright ‘Cargo’, Singapore Airlines handles it all... Singapore 7298 (B747F - 9V-SFO) short final 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) whilst company B77W 9V-SWP as Singapore 242 waits at ‘Alfa 1’ for Singapore (SIN/WSSS)
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@ FLEET DETAILS | AIR FRANCE
• Country : F- | France 🇫🇷
• Date : 1933 -
• Codes : AF AFR
• Callsign : AirFrans
• Web site : www.airfrance.fr
@ BOEING | 777 - 300 ER | MSN 32961 / 570
• Production Site : Everett (PAE) 🇺🇸
• Serial number : MSN 32961 LN:570
• Type : 777-328ER
• First flight date : 05/06/2006
• Test registration
• Seat configuration : C14 W28 Y430 Seat
• Hex code 394A0E
• Engines : 2 x GE GE90-115B
• Airframe Status : Active
@ OPERATORS OF THE AIRCRAFT
• 14/06/2006> Air France > F-GSQO > Named Vézelay
•
Morning arrival of what should have been Virgin Australia livery - Velocity 30 from Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) on short final to 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY)
Concluding some 23hrs of flight, G-STBL as British Airways 15 touching down 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a stunning February morning - 5 Fed '23
Another day of not much flying out of Sydney Airport, or pretty much around the world thanks to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
However, A7-BEJ is seen banking away after departing 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) as Qatar 907 to Doha (DOH/OTHH)!!
TRIPLE TRIPLE - B77W challenge!!!
So, who is doing it better (in order of appearance), HL8274 as Korean 401 from Seoul (0641), G-STBL as British Airways 15 from London Heathrow via Singapore (0646), or A6-ETH as Eetihad 450 from Abu Dhabi (0704) all touching down 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY)
Morning arrival of what should have been Virgin Australia livery - Velocity 30 from Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) on short final to 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY)
9V-SWG as Singapore 212 to Singapore (SIN/WSSS) airborne 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a stunning morning.
ZK-OKP wearing “The Hobbit” special livery (Nov 2012 - Sept 2016) on taxi out for a 34L departure at Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) for Auckland (AKL/NZAA) as NZ104 13 July 2013!!
A7-BAA wearing the 'oneworld' livery as Qatar Airways 8831 to Doha Hamad (DOH/OTHH) from 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) - in and out of pockets of clouds in sunshine made for ‘challenging’ lighting!! 😂😂
Concluding some 23hrs of flight, G-STBL as British Airways 15 touching down 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a stunning February morning - 5 Fed '23
A6-ETL glowing in the late afternoon / early evening summer light as Etihad 454 from Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) slowing down 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY)…
EK161 / UAE161
Emirates
DXB
Dubai
DUB
Dublin
STD 07:00 GST
ATD 07:15 GST
STA 11:20 GMT
ETA 11:09 GMT
Aircraft(B77W)
Boeing 777-31N(ER)
Registration(8960CA)
A6-EBC
Altitude
36,000 ft
Having arrived as 'VEE-OZ 2', 'Didgeree Blue' seen being parked up for the day on the hardstands at Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) before operating 'VEE-OZ 1' back to Los Angeles (LAX/KLAX) later in the afternoon...
Oddly, or not, the rego originally assigned was VH-VGA, which was NTU, and is now named Palm Beach with Virgin Australia...
‘Touchdown’
G-STBO as British Airways 15 from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) via Singapore (SIN/WSSS) touching down 16R Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) on a windy morning of 25 ops, BA was the only arrival!