Comment / Beginning a short take off roll on Stansted's runway 05.

Comment / Holding for a departure from Golf Bravo whilst the runway was temporarily closed. ATC saw suspicious fluids vent from an arriving Gulfstream but a runway inspection found nothing on the tarmac.

Comment / Another view of this fine aircraft - pristine white paint and highly polished chrome!

Comment / I've been trying to catch A6-GDP in bright sunlight for months, and you can't ask for much better weather than this! Kept busy flying race horses around the globe, this Boeing 747-200 (which once served with BA as G-BLVF, incidentally) is registered after Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin stables.

Comment / Arriving on runway 05 as 'Dubai 5', just two minutes behind the Triple Seven N777AS during a very busy evening for Middle Eastern traffic at Stansted.

Comment / Aircraft of the Dubai Air Wing are regular visitors to Stansted, often arriving and parking up on the northside for a couple of days or so. Boeing 747-400 A6-HRM arrived yesterday evening, about an hour before sunset, an aircraft which joined the wing from United Air Lines in 2003.