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Cool, I usually park along the road by the side of the Romper and walk down. I've never risked parking at the Holiday Grim, not sure if they go around checking the cars lately but I know a few people who do sneak in there.

I'll check ATIS on Monday morning if I can remember and post a heads-up as to which runway direction is active. Gutted I can't get any time off to pop down.

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It departs at 9am on Tuesday if you can get down then

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I will be landing in Malta then :)

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I want one! Sit through the first few stills for the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJGtLQNfi8

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Cheers yeah. I've just had two days off though and have 300+ unread mails in my inbox so might be a bit pushed to get any time off this week but I will try :)

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The Antonov 225 been delayed till 2.00pm

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Looks like were on 23L today which is a bummer. I'll keep an ear out for it on VHF.

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Dam i missed it, it came in 20 minutes early and had just touched down when i got there :(

Well i will see it up close early in the morning as its presently sat at terminal one and my flight boards from Terminal one :)

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Seen everything today, 2 Dreamliners, The A380, The Antonov 225 and an explosion on a Thomas Cook during take off, which shut down the runways,

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got videos mate? to sell to the press ;) lol then post them here :D

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Dont think the explosion was as serious as I made out, apparently it was the brakes going bang, loud bang though, it managed to get off the runway itself so it couldnt have been all that bad. Shut the runway for about 45 minutes while they got a road sweeper on the job. I wouldnt have fancied being on the plane which was about to land, it didnt half pull up steep to abort. No vids sorry

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Or the llllooooonnnnngggg on in Area 51

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Area 51 (including the salt lake extension) is only 8,000m long, where as the salt lake runway at Edwards AFB is 12,000 long ;)

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After all that it wasnt brakes it was the engine, couple of people have put a video up . Different angles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS1YAX70edc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRL8MPnXmFw

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:shocked: good job the plane was still on the ground