Yay! After missing its last few visits for various reasons (including being out of the country, a snowstorm, and being far away from the airport occupied with other activities), today I finally got to see the "NBA" livery A380 (A6-EOD) with my own eyes at last!
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As an extra bonus, the "airport sheep" have finally returned - with lambs too to boot!
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And to make things even cooler, Cathay Pacific's A350 was also there to join the party!
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Pity they're only flying to Christchurch direct over summer nowadays! If they had done so 10-15 years ago when we actually did still go to Hong Kong (and Grandpa was still alive for us to visit him there), that would've been perfect! Alas, it's a case of missed timing now 😥
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Speaking of missed timing, I actually almost missed today's landing! Despite planning to leave at 1:30 to arrive with plenty of time before the 2pm arrival, our visitor was running about 10 minutes early (!)... and worse still, I got stuck behind a *really slow driving truck* for most of the last critical stretch! Aarrrgh!!!
Luckily I did make it, finding my intended spot available with ample parking (and two cute sheep sitting in the foreground to boot!), where I promptly dove straight in, yanked the parking brake and cut the power, before jumping out as fast as I could, only to see... aaahh... incoming on short final already!!! (As a result, by the time I managed to frame up a shot, the first I could get was the plane passing through a gap in the trees, and not a little distance before the trees as I had first seen it)
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