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Rare Yellow Bird Doing Scottish Business Commuting Service

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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice Scottish business commuter service provided by HS-121 Trident 1E from EGPD Aberdeen International Airport located at Dyce approximately 5 nautical miles northwest of city centre of Aberdeen, Scotland to EGKK Gatwick Airport located 29.5 miles south of central London.

Airborne after take off on climb to FL310 with background view of lightened motorway (British word for highway) A96

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Making left 180 degree turn to head to south with background view of town of Oldmeldrum where one of the oldest whisky distilleries in Scotland called Glen Garioch is located

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Still on climb passing through clouds

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Still in middle of 180 degree turn toward south with background view of waters of North Sea seen on top

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Still climbing climbing climbing to FL310

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Nice view of western Scotland and North Sea where in front of wing, you can see green land mass which is Cairngorms National Park.  At wingtip where you can see city lights which is Aberdeen.

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City of Aberdeen under wingtip

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Now reaching FL310 to start cruising toward south

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Approaching Scottish city of Dundee

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Passing Dundee where you can see River Tay

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Passing motorway M90 seen below the plane and River Earn seen behind the plane's tail

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Leaving Dundee

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Passing mighty city of Edinburgh and its airport

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Waters of Firth of Forth can been seen behind the plane which is still passing Edinburgh

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Cruising at mach 0.86  (yep that is official cruising speed although some pilots used mach 0.87)

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City of Edinburgh and waters of Firth of Forth can be seen next to engine

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Nice tail

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Increasing speed to mach 0.87 from mach 0.86 to satisfy impatient business commuter passengers while crossing waters of Morecambe Bay

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Because of regulations of the forums not allowing more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink to continue viewing rest of exciting Trident flight.

Here is the link:  http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/8640/yellow-scottish-business-commuting-service

Thank you for viewing this flight.  Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

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Very interesting flight plan....great shots!

HLJAMES

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HLJames,

Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

Aharon

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