#lhr — Public Fediverse posts

Photo Of The Day 27th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/27/photo-of-the-day-27th-august-2026/

London Heathrow Airport - London, United Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/51.470600/-0.461941

#EGLL #LHR #London #UnitedKingdom #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

Photo Of The Day 20th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/20/photo-of-the-day-20th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 19th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/19/photo-of-the-day-19th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 18th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/18/photo-of-the-day-18th-august-2026/

Photo Of The Day 6th August 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/08/06/photo-of-the-day-6th-august-2026/

Final

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/final

Photo Of The Day 30th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/30/photo-of-the-day-30th-july-2026/

Photo Of The Day 28th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/28/photo-of-the-day-28th-july-2026/

Photo Of The Day 24th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/24/photo-of-the-day-24th-july-2026/

Photo Of The Day 23rd July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/23/photo-of-the-day-23rd-july-2026/

LHR NCL

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/lhr-ncl

Photo Of The Day 16th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/16/photo-of-the-day-16th-july-2026/

FCO LHR

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/fco-lhr

Photo of the Day 11th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/11/photo-of-the-day-11th-july-2026/

LHR CDG

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/lhr-cdg

Photo of the Day 9th July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/09/photo-of-the-day-9th-july-2026/

"The British are coming!" And unlike a similar quote from 250 years ago, we hope they enjoy their visit. Spotted on approach to Portland #PDX / #KPDX this afternoon: British Airways 787-10 Dreamliner coming from London Heathrow #LHR / #EGLL. #aviation #travel #avgeek

Photo of the Day 2nd July 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/07/02/photo-of-the-day-2nd-july-2026/

Photo of the Day 25th June 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/06/25/photo-of-the-day-25th-june-2026/

Photo of the Day 23rd June 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/06/23/photo-of-the-day-23rd-june-2026/

"Qantas plans a 22-hour London-Sydney nonstop flight, set for October next year" by @AssociatedPress - Affected by delays in delivery of their A350-1000ULR (ultra long range) planes, Qantas has postponed to Oct 2027 their "Project Sunrise" plans, non-stop flights between Sydney #SYD / #YSSY and London #LHR / #EGLL. What's a few more months on achieving the company's decades-old long-term goal? Qantas' current longest flights are Perth to London. https://apnews.com/article/australia-qantas-longest-flight-sydney-london-4909f75c692b83cbe3b9e443ca3341a3 #aviation #travel #avgeek

Photo of the Day 18th June 2026.

On This Day 18th June 1993.

‘Throw Thursday 18th June 2026.

Photo of the Day 11th June 2026.

‘Throw Thursday 11th June 2026.

Photo of the Day 4th June 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/06/04/photo-of-the-day-4th-june-2026/

Manchester Monday 1st May 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/06/01/manchester-monday-1st-may-2026/

Photo of the Day 31st May 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/05/31/photo-of-the-day-31st-may-2026/

Heathrow: Boarding starts at 8:40. It may take up to fifteen minutes to walk to your gate. "Please allow enough time to reach your gate." It's 8:44. We're still not telling you what your gate is. May be the famous British humor.

In seriousness, I don't know any airport that announces gates this late. Is this some deal with the shops to keep people around the central concourse?

#lhr #airports #heathrow

Photo of the Day 28th May 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/05/28/photo-of-the-day-28th-may-2026/

Photo of the Day 9th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/09/photo-of-the-day-9th-april-2026/

Photo of the Day 3rd April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/?p=40122

Photo of the Day 19th March 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/03/19/photo-of-the-day-19th-march-2026/

Photo of the Day 17th March  2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/03/17/photo-of-the-day-17th-march-2026/

Photo of the Day 26th February 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/02/26/photo-of-the-day-26th-february-2026/

Flight: #BEL93B
Registration: OO-SSF
ICAO code: #44CE66
Callsign: #BEELINE
Operator: Brussels Airlines
Type: AIRBUS A319-111
Country: 🇧🇪
From: #LHR to #BRU
Speed: 569 kmh
Altitude: 1775 m
Distance: 2.6 km
Angle ∆: 34.6°
Direction ->: E
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/22qrhc2h
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/44CE66
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/OO-SSF
Photos:
https://jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/OO-SSF
Seen: 436x
#Landing #BrusselsAirport

Flight: #BAW405
ICAO code: #407FCB
Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
Operator: British Airways
Country: 🇬🇧
From: #NAP to #LHR
Speed: 775 kmh
Altitude: 10965 m
Distance: 7.2 km
Angle ∆: 56.6°
Direction ->: WNW
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/284vfbpy
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FCB
Seen: 33x

Flight: #BAW405
ICAO code: #407FCA
Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
Operator: British Airways
Country: 🇬🇧
From: #NAP to #LHR
Speed: 751 kmh
Altitude: 10378 m
Distance: 6.3 km
Angle ∆: 58.8°
Direction ->: WNW
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/28tx3878
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FCA
Seen: 37x

Flight: #BAW405
ICAO code: #407FC9
Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
Operator: British Airways
Country: 🇬🇧
From: #NAP to #LHR
Speed: 827 kmh
Altitude: 10973 m
Distance: 7.7 km
Angle ∆: 54.9°
Direction ->: WNW
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/2blekysx
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FC9
Seen: 50x

Flight: #BAW405
ICAO code: #407FCA
Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
Operator: British Airways
Country: 🇬🇧
From: #NAP to #LHR
Speed: 818 kmh
Altitude: 10980 m
Distance: 6.4 km
Angle ∆: 59.6°
Direction ->: WNW
Track:
https://tinyurl.com/2269bp9y
History:
https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/407FCA
Seen: 35x

"London’s Heathrow Airport prepares to restart flights after major fire nearby shuts down travel" by CNBC (#FPNF Fediverse presence not found - if you know them, invite them) - Power outage at London Heathrow #LHR #EGLL caused chaos. Restoring power is one of many steps to getting all the operations and services up and running again. Then travelers who didn't cancel can try all at once to proceed to their destinations. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/21/heathrow-airport-closes-friday-after-fire-causes-power-outage.html #aviation #travel #avgeek

PSA to my fellow 🤓 #nerds who like #programming in @ruby and/or #webprogramming who would also like to visit ⚛️ CERN in 🇨🇭 #geneva — the place where @timbl invented the 🌐 #web.

If you need a reason to visit #cern, maybe also for the #largehadroncollider, then this might be it.

https://ruby.social/@helvetic_ruby/114179005684458096

And keep in mind that @helvetic_ruby is switching places each year. So if you'd like to have this combo then 2025 is the year for you.

#rubylang #ruby #RubyProgramming #lhr #webdev #webdevelopment

Photo of the Day 3rd November 2024.

On This Day 3rd November 1993.

On This Day 3rd November 1994.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/11/03/photo-of-the-day-3rd-november-2024/

#Agusta #AirIndiaCargo #AirportHotel #avgeek #aviation #B206 #bell #dc8 #douglas #egcc #egll #f27 #fokker #friendship #heathrow #IssyLesMoulineaux #jdp #JerseyEuropean #JetRanger #LFPI #lhr #london #man #manchester #OnThisDay #paris #photography #planespotting #Runway09Right #runway24 #SouthernAirTransport

LONDON

My packing list for this short trip to the U.K. did not include any plastic cards with embedded electronics, because London was one of the earlier cities in the world to grasp that you can persuade people to take transit if you will just shut up and take their money right before they board instead of first asking them to buy a reloadable transit fare card.

By “money” I mean the kind embedded in people’s credit cards, both those that include NFC contactless payments and those stored in such apps as Apple Pay, Google Wallet (formerly Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, formerly Google Wallet) and Samsung Pay.

Transport services in London have accepted tap-to-pay since 2012, so when I arrived here Monday I only had to hold my phone above the NFC terminal at a faregate for the Elizabeth Line to start paying my fare. Waving my phone over another faregate when I exited completed the transaction; the only hard part in between was not falling asleep on the train.

My previous business travel to a city with a subway connection to its international airport, my too-brief visit to Chicago a month ago, treated me to the same convenience–CTA has welcomed NFC payments since 2013.

But when I land at Dulles this afternoon and take Metro home, I’ll use a proprietary SmarTrip card that cost $2 to buy sometime years ago. WMATA does now support phone payments, but only via its own app–and as I’ve found out the hard way, you can’t move a SmarTrip card that still costs $2 even if bought right in the agency’s app to a new Android phone if your old Android phone dies.

Transit apps don’t have to incorporate that defect, but too many of them ship with other problems–chief among them, not letting the user select a payment method already saved in Apple Pay or Google Wallet.

Fortunately, WMATA’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke seems to have realized that Metro has created a payments problem for itself with this longstanding setup. At September’s WMATA board meeting, Clarke said he wants to see Metro support tap-to-pay by the time WorldPride Washington DC draws visitors to the D.C. area next May for the 50th anniversary of Pride celebrations here.

Making a subway or bus ride the same no-new-app, no-new-card experience as booking an Uber would be an enormously customer- and visitor-friendly move by Metro.

On that note, I’m obliged to disclose that I’m here courtesy of an Uber-paid press trip for Tuesday’s Go-Get Zero sustainability event here, which included generous Uber credits to get around the city. I’m further obliged to report that spending so much time sitting in London traffic in Ubers, even at no cost to me, was one of the better advertisements for transit that I’ve seen in a while.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/10/the-most-visitor-friendly-thing-a-citys-transit-system-can-do/

#ApplePay #ElizabethLine #GPay #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #LHR #LondonUnderground #mobilePayments #NFC #RandyClarke #SamsungPay #tapToPay #transit #Tube #Uber #UX

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/09/12/throw-thursday-12th-september-2024/

#a320 #airbus #AirCanada #airshow #Argus #b747 #B787 #bac111 #boeing #BritishAircraftCorporation #BritishAirways #dreamliner #easyjet #egkk #eglf #egll #fab #farnborough #Flygvapnet #gatwick #heathrow #lgw #lhr #london #OnThisDay #QueensBuilding #Runway08Right #Runway09Left #Runway27Left #S100 #s2000 #saab #sf340 #StanwellMoorRoad #SwedishAirForce #tarom #ThrowThursday

PK-GIA, Boeing 777-3U3ER, Garuda Indonesia, crossing the perimeter fence after taing off from Runway 08R at London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.

58-6970, Boeing 707-153/VC-137B Stratoliner, United States Air Force, in the Air Force Two colour scheme, at London Heathrow, 22nd July 1995.

LZ-D-050, Tupolev Tu134A, Bulgarian Air Force, on static display at Fairford International Air Tattoo, 22nd July 1995.

HB-JVE, Fokker F100, Helvetic, taxiing out to the runway at Manchester Airport, 27th September 2013.

#airshow #avp #b707 #b777 #boeing #bulgarianairforce #egcc #egkk-runway08r #egll #f100 #fairford #ffd #fokker #garuda #gatwick #heathrow #helvetic #iat #internationalairtattoo #lgw #lhr #london #man #manchester #tu134 #tupolev #unitedstatesairforce #usaf

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/07/22/photo-of-the-day-22nd-july-2023/

VT-JEH, Boeing 777-35RER, Jet Airways, seconds after taking off from Runway 27L at London Heathrow, 22nd March 2018.

OK-WDO, LET L-410UVP-E19A Turbolet, BemoAir, taxiing to the terminal after landing on Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, bringing in Czech fans for the Czech republic’s opening Euro 96 match against Germany at Old Trafford.

N1024L, Beechcraft B60 Duke, parked at Manchester Barton, 9th June 1996.

#aerolet #b60 #b777 #barton #beechcraft #bemoair #boeing #duke #egcb #egcc #egll #heathrow #jetairways #l13 #l410 #let #lhr #london #man #manchester #runway27l

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2023/06/09/photo-of-the-day-9th-june-2023/

Flight: #BEL93B
Reg: OO-SSF
ICAO: #44CE66
Callsign: #BEELINE
Brussels Airlines - AIRBUS A319-111 🇧🇪
#LHR to #BRU
Speed: 596 kmh
Alt: 2393 m
Dist: 2.3 km
∆: 46.7°
->: ENE
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=44CE66&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-03-09
Seen: 25x
#Landing #EBBR
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #BAW405
Reg: G-EUXL
ICAO: #4010DC
Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
British Airways - AIRBUS A321-231 🇬🇧
#NAP to #LHR
Speed: 512 kmh
Alt: 1943 m
Dist: 4.5 km
∆: 23.3°
->: WNW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4010DC&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-03-02
Seen: 8x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg

Flight: #BAW405
Reg: G-NEOW
ICAO: #4077E0
Callsign: #SPEEDBIRD
British Airways - AIRBUS A321-251NX 🇬🇧
#NAP to #LHR
Speed: 531 kmh
Alt: 1951 m
Dist: 6.8 km
∆: 16.1°
->: NW
Track: http://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4077E0&lat=50.983&lon=4.447&zoom=10.5&showTrace=2023-03-01
Seen: 5x
http://bit.ly/3wpU8Fg