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Airliners encountering Sun and Moon at Brussels Airport

 

Below you will find some pictures of airliners taken when the Moon or Sun had an interesting angle. They were intercepted with my Canon 300D/30D 50-500 mm zoom lens and have been taken at various locations near Brussels Airport. Date read as: day/month/year  - hours in local times (CET).

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03/06/10 - 08:24. Taken with a telescope at 1200 mm, Swiss Avro RJ100 HB-IYQ coming from Zurich as LX786 vectoring for 02 catching a rising Moon.

 

24/04/10 - 06:52. Brussels Airlines A330-301 OO-SFM coming from Yaoundé-Kinshasa as SN354 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

07/04/10 - 07:29. Jet Airways A330-202 VT-JWM coming from Chennai as 9W226 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

27/03/10 - 06:49. Turkish Airlines A319-132 TC-JLM coming from Anadolu as TK1931 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

27/03/10 - 06:47. Continental Airlines B767-424(ER) N78060 coming from Newark as CO060 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

27/03/10 - 06:44. United Airlines B777-222 N781UA coming from Washington as UA950 with far behind Turkish Airlines A319-132 TC-JLM coming from Anadolu as TK1931, both on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

24/10/09 - 08:29. Brussels Airlines B737-43Q OO-VEP on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

24/10/09 - 08:21. CSA B737-55S OK-XGC was coming from Prague as OK630 on finals 25L in the early morning light.

 

26/09/09 - 07:50. Brussels Airlines B737-36N(WL) OO-VEX was coming from Copenhagen as SN2266 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

26/09/09 - 07:46. Jet Airways A330-202 VT-JWQ was coming from Mumbai as 9W228 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

18/09/09 - 07:49. Jet Airways A330-200 VT-JWG was coming from Newark as 9W227 on finals 25L catching a rising sun.

 

31/08/09 - 19:41. Brussels Airlines RJ85 OO-DJK was coming from Manchester as SN2178 on finals 25L catching a rising Moon.

 

04/08/09 - 21:31. Turkish Airlines A320 TC-JPB was coming from Ankara as TK1933 on finals 25L catching a rising Moon.

 

15/07/09 - 01:06. Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium A320 OO-TCJ was coming from Rhodos as FQ2857 on finals 25R catching a rising Moon.

 

01/05/09 - 20:42. Cathay Pacific Cargo B747-467ERF B-LIB lining up 25R for departure to Dubai as CX002 with setting sun as background

 

03/04/09 - 07:32. Swiss RJ100 HB-IXR coming from Basle as SWR760 on final 25L above a rising sun

 

24/01/09 - 08:37. Brussels Airlines RJ85 OO-DJW coming from Birmingham as SN2050 on final 25L catching a rising sun

 

24/01/09 - 08:35. Brussels Airlines B737-300(WL) OO-LTM coming from Roma (FCO) as SN3188 on final 25L catching a rising sun

 

24/01/09 - 08:35. Brussels Airlines B737-300(WL) OO-LTM coming from Roma (FCO) as SN3188 on final 25L catching a rising sun

 

24/01/09 - 08:32. Europe Airpost (on behalf Brussels Airlines) B737-300 F-GZTA coming from Paris (CDG) as SN3630 on final 25L on top of a rising sun

 

12/01/09 - 08:43. Austrian A319 OE-LDD coming from Vienna as AUA351 on final 25L catching a rising sun

 

13/11/08 - 18:07. Brussels Airlines A319 OO-SSG was coming from Moscow (DME) as BEL2836 on finals 25L around 1000 ft, 30 seconds before touchdown

 

13/11/08 - 17:41. TNT Airways BAe146-200 OO-TAZ was coming from Manchester as TAY9412 on finals 25L around 1000 ft, 30 seconds before touchdown

 

17/10/08 - 21:31. Flybe ERJ145 G-EMBV was coming from Manchester as BEE7187 on finals 25L around 1000 ft, 30 seconds before touchdown

 

17/10/08 - 21:04. Blue Panorama Airlines (on behalf Jetairfly) B767-300 I-LLAG was coming from Tenerife as JAF5114 on finals 25L around 1000 ft, 30 seconds before touchdown

 

17/10/08 - 20:12. Two minutes later on the same flight path, but the Moon has risen a bit: Clickair A320 EC-KHN was coming from Barcelona as CLI1223 on finals 25L around 3000 ft, some 4 minutes before touchdown

 

17/10/08 - 20:10. Moonrise was at 19:38, so barely above the horizon giving an iron appearance and the disk was even a bit deformed. SAS B737-600 LN-RRO was coming from Stockholm (ARN) as SAS2591 on finals 25L around 3000 ft, some 3 minutes before touchdown

 

16/10/08 - 20:23. Sun-Air (on behalf British Airways) DO328 OY-NCS was coming from Bern as BAW5255 on finals 25L around 1000 ft, 30 seconds before touchdown

 

 

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