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A CrossCountry HST set led by Class 43 power car No. 43239 is seen passing the footbridge at Powderham with 1E63 the 15.27 Plymouth to Leeds service on Monday 8th March 2021.
No luck with the Northern Belle but the sun did appear for this Cross Country HST that followed about 10 minutes later. 43384 seen at Cockwood with the 1E67 1627 Plymouth - Leeds 5/9/20. (Taken using a pole)
Dusk falls at Derby as Class 43 No. 43303 leads a CrossCountry HST set while working 1S51 the 12:25 Plymouth to Glasgow Central service on Wednesday 4th November 2015.
XC-FAY / 10503 Boeing 727-14 (18908) Fuerza Aerea Mexicana / Mexican Air Force - London Heathrow Airport 21-07-1992
August 2022
43239 + 43304 departing Newcastle working the 1227 XC HST service from Plymouth to Edinburgh.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Waiting at Stanstead to depart and join other aircraft in LHR formation flyby for the 50th anniversary 1996.
I was lucky to to be there, I missed a RAF Hercules flight to be there, but had flown on Hercs and thought this was really a bit of history.
The Soul out on an XC ride. This is actually the bottom of a wrong turn, but was actually an interesting and pretty valley, so all good. Just a bit of a climb back up.
Run until you can't run any longer. Up the hill. Down the hill. Through the woods. On the path. Off the path. Just run!
Convair XC-99 outside Kelly AFB, San Antonio, Texas in July 1980.
From Wikipedia:
"The Convair XC-99, AF Ser. No. 43-52436, is a prototype heavy cargo aircraft built by Convair for the United States Air Force. It was the largest piston-engined land-based transport aircraft ever built, and was developed from the Convair B-36 bomber, sharing the wings and some other structures with it. The first flight was on 24 November 1947 in San Diego, California, and after testing it was delivered to the Air Force on 26 May 1949.
The aircraft was put on display at Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, in 1957. Deterioration of the airframe due to the high magnesium content was beyond local abilities to address. The aircraft was later moved to a grassy field near the base and 1993 the USAF moved it back to the Kelly AFB."
The aircraft was disassembled at Kelly Air Force Base and its sections transported to theUS Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio for anti-corrosion preservation and reassembly there. It was subsequently transported in the summer of 2012, to Davis-Monthan AFB.
Arriva CrossCountry Class 220 'Voyager' No.220005 is seen passing Chippenham with 1V52 the 09:33 York to Plymouth service on Sunday 13th May 2018. XC services were on diversion due to the closure of Filton Bank in Bristol for engineering works.