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My ride to Auckland is here. Nearly the end of the trip.
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At the gate at HKG but satnav says 85 miles to go. That might be the walk to baggage claim 🤔 big ol airport, this.
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Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 turbofan engines 😯
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Another day, another A350
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Amsterdam Centraal, headed for Schiphol
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BA running some kind of clown show here at T5
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Ah it could be worse
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My ride is here. One minute late. London-bound.
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A Vulcan tail is seen through the window of a Nimrod
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A 737 is seen taking off, through the windscreen of a Nimrod
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Nimrod nose and Boeing 737 taking off
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Abandon Aircraft light is on
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They let me drive the Nimrod.
That's "Stitch" in the last pic, ex-RAF Nimrod pilot and all round smashing chap.

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Vulcan with Jet Provost, for scale
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An Avro Vulcan at East Mids Aeropark. These things are enormous.
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Alright Aviation folk. Name that aircraft.
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I only used my horn once, near the end of the trip. I was nearly eight hours in. The same guy cut me up twice. You get one for free. The second gets you a HONK HONK.
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I only used my horn once, near the end of the trip. I was nearly eight hours in. The same guy cut me up twice. You get one for free. The second gets you a HONK HONK.
#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

I only used my horn once, near the end of the trip. I was nearly eight hours in. The same guy cut me up twice. You get one for free. The second gets you a HONK HONK.
#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

I only used my horn once, near the end of the trip. I was nearly eight hours in. The same guy cut me up twice. You get one for free. The second gets you a HONK HONK.
#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

I only used my horn once, near the end of the trip. I was nearly eight hours in. The same guy cut me up twice. You get one for free. The second gets you a HONK HONK.
#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

Eight hours driving today. I'm knackered.

I take back a lot of what I've said about NZ drivers. I either had rose-tinted glasses about the standard of driving in the UK, or things have deteriorated badly. Maybe both. Yikes.

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Eight hours driving today. I'm knackered.

I take back a lot of what I've said about NZ drivers. I either had rose-tinted glasses about the standard of driving in the UK, or things have deteriorated badly. Maybe both. Yikes.

#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

Eight hours driving today. I'm knackered.

I take back a lot of what I've said about NZ drivers. I either had rose-tinted glasses about the standard of driving in the UK, or things have deteriorated badly. Maybe both. Yikes.

#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

Eight hours driving today. I'm knackered.

I take back a lot of what I've said about NZ drivers. I either had rose-tinted glasses about the standard of driving in the UK, or things have deteriorated badly. Maybe both. Yikes.

#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

Eight hours driving today. I'm knackered.

I take back a lot of what I've said about NZ drivers. I either had rose-tinted glasses about the standard of driving in the UK, or things have deteriorated badly. Maybe both. Yikes.

#EssjaxInUK #HonkHonk

US Globemaster over the garden here. En route to Rammstein.
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