Tag Archives: Windsor

A Complex Roof Structure

When we go walking in Windsor Great Park, we tend to park at Savill Gardens and enter the park from there. During the visit with Mum, we went into the centre that they have built to have something at the café and check out the shop. The internal structure of the roof that they have built is really cool. Some great use of timber and structural analysis must have been needed to create something this interesting. I hope you like it as much as we did.

Airliners Over Windsor

Our day out in Windsor was not about photographing aircraft. However, the place is so close to the flightpath for Heathrow that I could hardly avoid the things. When in the town, we had a few pass very close by and it would have been churlish not to grab a shot or two. Later, as we walked through the Great Park, the jets on approach to Heathrow were visible above the castle as they were on final approach. Rather distant for a clear shot but still worth a pop.

What’s on This Azerbaijan 777’s Fuselage?

We had an excellent time walking through Windsor Great Park and, while I wasn’t there chasing aircraft, there were a few opportunities to get images of some of the arrivals into Heathrow in the distance. One of these was an Azerbaijan Boeing 777. I grabbed a couple of shots of it as it came over Windsor in the distance and then thought nothing further about it. However, when I started to look through my shots, I noticed some interesting lumps and bumps on the fuselage. My thoughts were immediately that they were some form of defensive countermeasures but if anyone has any other thoughts, I’d be interested to hear them.