The second stop on my visit to the Far East was Beijing, where I had four full days: two devoted to sightseeing (which I thoroughly recommend) and two to aviation. My visit coincided with a major political event, the People's National Congress, which meant that industrial production in the Beijing area was suspended and I enjoyed sunny weather for most of the time.
The vast majority of aircraft seen were B- registered, with a small number of long haul flights from Europe - BA, Air France, Lufthansa etc and some regional - Asiana, Korean etc. Airbus and Boeing had complete domination of airliners seen.
Beijing Capital has three parallel runways, aligned roughly north south. I used three locations for the photos:
1. The Mound is in a public park and overlooks the threshold of the middle runway, 36R. This runway is mostly used for departures.
2. Rough ground to the south east of the airport, to photograph aircraft landing on the eastern most runway, 01. Most Air China, Dalian and Shandong aircraft land on this runway.
3. When the wind changed to a southerly I headed to the northwestern perimeter of the airport to see landings and departures on the western most runway, 18R/36L.
01 B5176 PEONY by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
01 B6105 -6379 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
02 CHINA SOUTHERN by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
03 BMBM -7860 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
04 B5418 -6614 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
04 B5507 -6502 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
04 B5789 -6494 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
05 B1988 -6400 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
06 B1940 -6409 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
07 B5293 -8002 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
08 B8387 -6541 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
09 B5202 -6573 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
10 B2482 -6482 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
10 B6126 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
11 B6227 -8152 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
12 B1540 -8162 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
13 B2287 -7385 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
14 B2652 -7769 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
16 B1865 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
17 B5598 -7828 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
18 B2760 6239 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
19 B6961 -6284 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
20 B1661 -6596 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
21 B6371 -8176 by Alisdair McLean, on Flickr
Thanks for getting this far - C&C welcome.
Alisdair
Beijing Capital March 2017
Re: Beijing Capital March 2017
Really interesting selection from a rarely seen venue. Thanks for posting.