"Richard will have had only a few long seconds to capture the images"About 6 seconds, I reckon, from when the aircraft clears the trees. The "burst mode" on my (actually my wife's!) Sony DSC-P200 was very useful, as you hold down the button and it takes 5 photos at about 1-second intervals.The rest of the photos I took today at Heathrow are at http://rj2.fotopic.net/c962049.html.By the way, the small jet that I think was there to take air-to-air photos was an Aerospatiale Corvette, an Airbus corporate jet, I guess.In the afternoon, when the southern runway was being used for all landings, I went back and stood at the same spot, and used the same camera settings to take photos of other aircraft. I thought it would be interesting to compare their sizes. All the photos are to the same scale. Here first is the A380 ...Next is a Boeing 747-400, the familiar "jumbo". Not much smaller in length and wing-span, but the A380 is a lot taller ...This is a Boeing 777, their long-haul twin-engine. Some of them (not sure about this example) use a version of the Rolls-Royce Trent engines that powered today's A380 arrival ...And finally, one of the smaller members of the Airbus family, an A319, many of which we see over West London every day ...
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