Aviation the theme...

I have a goodly number of aircraft snaps taken this week that are worth posting, so here goes. Below: an Airbus A320 leads a Boeing 787 Dreamliner towards to the runway at Heathrow this morning.

Below: this is a Polish PZL-110 Koliber (licence-built SOCATA Rallye 100ST). Snapped flying over Sułkowice station.

Below: parcels in the sky, one of Sprintair's fleet of a dozen Saab 340s on light-freight duties. Each one has the same livery, but in different colours - lime green, turquoise, orange...

Below: an unfamiliar sight and indeed name - this is an Airbus A220 (that's right - two twenty). As of last April, this is the new nomenclature of what was the Bombardier CSeries, reflecting Airbus Industrie's acquisition of the majority shareholding in this project. Only two European airlines have A220s, both fly into Warsaw - Swiss and airBaltic.

Below: coming in to land over Jeziorki - a KLM Boeing 737. The plane is banking onto its final approach (you can see how bent the wings are during this manoeuvre!)

Below: a vanilla WizzAir Airbus A-320 HA-LYK; what makes the pic is the moon.

Below: one of two Polish government Embraer E175 aircraft, leased from LOT Polish Airlines.

Below: one of several Mil Mi-8S helicopters still flying VIPs for the Polish Air Force.

Below: Sikorsky S76C of The Queen's Helicopter Flight, over Hanger Lane, Ealing. Somewhat newer than the 42 year-old Mi-8 used to fly Polish VIPs.

Below: on approach to Warsaw Okęcie airport, my British Airways Airbus A320 flies over Warsaw Bemowo airport, outside of which stand five communist-era gate guardians (left to right: Sukhoi Su-22, PZL Iskra, Yak-40, MiG-21 and another Iskra).

Below: view of Warsaw on approach into Okęcie airport's Runway 15.

Below: view of Warsaw on departure from Okęcie airport's Runway 33.

Bonus shot, referring to my previous post about Brentham Garden Suburb - while snapping there the day before yesterday, I caught sight of this scratch-built metal-and-wood model (in 1/48th or 1/50th scale) of an Avro Lancaster of 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn. Picture of this model aicraft on Google Maps Street View suggests it pivots around 180 degrees like a weather vane.

This time last year:
Five closed-off hectares of central Warsaw

This time two years ago
Progress by the ponds

This time six years ago:
Kaczyński's ignorance, deceit or folly? 

This time seven years ago:
The British electrical plug and socket reigns supreme

This time eight years ago:
Easter, and the end of Lent

This time nine years ago:
That Icelandic volcano

This time ten years ago:
Views of Historic Toruń

This time 11 years ago:
One swallow does not a summer make