Remarks:Air China 958 blasts off RWY02C for Xiamen and Beijing. I really miss this great location where just a cheapo tele lens could get one decently close to the smaller bits of action!
Remarks:"Tug Red Zulu" repositioning Air China's 'Smiling China' 77W from Bay 98 to Bay 53 for it's evening departure to Beijing. Finally Sydney gets this scheme but I have to admit it's not my favourite. [Canon 500D]
Remarks:Smiling China finally hits our shores after earlier arriving from Beijing as CA173 on her first visit to Australia after a lengthy wait for this arrival. This was a highly anticipated arrival to see this scheme in Sydney after over a month of 77W services. They will opperate Sydney up until 01MAR13 before changing back to A332. It almost looking like the engineer at the nose is helping tow the 77W. 1200px [Canon 50D]