Channel: Jamlidd

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Description: What a sight. In late 2021, I traveled to Cotswold Airport in the UK to film some amazing clips of what is arguably one of Europe's largest aircraft storage and scrappage facilities. There were a number of British Airways 747s being scrapped for parts, and a huge number of TAP A319s & A320s ready for scrappage as well. Surprisingly, there were some 727s in storage which have been at the airport for a while, and there was also an enormous Saudi 747 which had been stripped back to its core. As to be expected, the most valuable part of these aircraft - their engines, have already been removed. All together, it made for a sad sight and shows just how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been on the aviation industry. Using my Nikon 4K video camera, iPhone videocamera and tripod, I filmed all of the clips in this video in late 2021. I used iMovie to edit all of the raw video clips I filmed to create this video here, which only uses content I myself filmed and fully own. Some of the aircraft in this video include: British Airways Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in April 2020 G-CIVN (first flight in 1997) Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 717-200, arrived for scrapping in October 2018 EZ-A107 (first flight in 2005) Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in January 2021 TF-AAD (first flight in 1997) British Airways Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in September 2020 G-BYGA (first flight in 1999) Jet2 Boeing 757-200, arrived for scrapping in March 2020 G-LSAD (first flight in 1989) MK Airlines Boeing 747-200F, arrived at the airport in May 2009 G-MKGA (first flight in 1979) Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in May 2020 TF-AAH (first flight in 2002) EasyJet A319, arrived for scrapping in May 2021 G-EZIH (first flight in 2005) TAP - Air Portugal A319, arrived for scrapping in February 2021 CS-TTG (first flight in 1998) Air Mauritius A319, arrived for scrapping in June 2021 3B-NBF (first flight in 2001) Corsair Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in June 2020 F-HSEA (first flight in 1992) Boeing 727 2MMTT (first flight in 1966), arrived for scrapping in mid-2000s Boeing 727 under private ownership and is now in storage M-FTOH (first flight in 1980)