Heavy equipment on a short flight from London Gatwick.

It's a long way to the Polderbaan, Rwy 36L.

First flown on 28 March 2014, and delivered on 29 April.

On a presedential visit but followed a few minutes later by the regular scheduled 757

BA204 from Miami operated by a 777 at this time newly promoting the 'GREAT' Festival of Creativity in Shanghai. The rose and bamboo artwork by Chinese fashion designer Masha Ma, intended to convey a western impressionistic style fused with Chinese ink-and-wash painting techniques, took 186 stencils and 2,472 man-hours to apply

Arriving from Shanghai.

The recovery operation begins. Flight BA38 landed about 300 meters short of runway 27L on 18 Jan 2008, after both engines had lost power due to a restricted fuel flow. The left main gear was pushed up through the wing, and the right main gear separated from the wing entirely. Fuel leaked, but there was no fire. Actually witnessing the scene brought home the extraordinarily short distance in which Triple Mike stopped. The lack of deformation is some credit to the integrity of Boeing's design, too.

No, this aircraft isn't smoking. A fire across the bay in Oakland makes for an optical illusion.

The inaugural flight VN140 departing Gatwick for Ho Chi Minh City. The day before VN-A149 had flown the first service to Hanoi

Recovery continues. When I took the pic, the question "would you fly BA in a 777 tomorrow?" was doing the rounds. Yes, of course.

Malaysian was operating an extra Saturday flight to AMS this summer, using 777 equipment.

Until recently TUA427 was operated with either 757 or 737 equipment but the 777 has been used a number of times lately

Rwy 36L take-off.