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Lovely image from user Hounddogone on our AirSpace gallery of a Bombardier Q400 landing at London City Airport. An approach that puts the 'eep!' into 'steep'.

 Credit: User Hounddogone on Flightglobal/AirSpace

To celebrate 30 years of flights to London Heathrow, American Airlines has released this tremendous, nay, glorious image of members of staff dating from 1988. I think it's probably the hair - just the wrong side of boufant - that does it for us. As to whether the jet is still in service, well, it's American, so who knows...

Credit: American Airlines

Great photo from user Hounddogone on flightglobal.com/AirSpace of a Singapore airlines A380 on approach to London Heathrow as the sun goes down.

Credit: user Hounddogone on AirSpace

AirSpace user boeing764 posted this shot of a KLM Boeing 777-200 (PH-BQF) on short final to Vancouver (eh) on 1 May following a flight from Schiphol.

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AirSpace user Hounddogone posted this picture of a sunset-lit Saudi Arabian Airlines 747-400 on short final approach to London Heathrow.

Credit: User Hounddogone on Flightglobal/AirSpace

Pictured on our AirSpace gallery, courtesy of user Dave Vaughan, is this terrific night shot of an Air Tahiti Nui Airbus A340-300 (F-OSEA).  According to our Ascend data tool-a-majig the aircraft is a 2001-built airframe which the airline operated from new.

Credit: David Vaughan

I happened to be looking for something else when I stumbled on this photo of a US Airways Airbus A330 on Flightglobal AirSpace. Not wishing to play it down, but it's not the most spectacular shot. That said I still love the composition.

Credit: M Needham gallery on Flightglobal/AirSpace

Uzbekistan Airways is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a shiny new present, a Boeing 767-300ER. This is the first of four 767-300ERs from a 2008 order. Uzbekistan Airways, headquartered in Tashkent, also has two 787-8s on order.

To borrow from Spinal Tap: How much more black could it be? None more black. It's Air New Zealand's latest Boeing 777-300ER (ZK-OKQ) resplendent in the All Black colour scheme sat next to a Beech 1900D turboprop belonging to Eagle Airways at Auckland. Could it be any more awesome? None more awesome.

Credit: Peter Clark

A trip up to London yesterday and a walk along Picadilly took me past the window of Iran Air's office (sadly in the process of moving to Hammersmith Road). Displayed in said window was a model of a Boeing 747 in the old seventies livery. Although I was unable to find a picture of one in the flesh, here's another golden oldie in the shape of a Boeing 727, pictured in 1975 on its way in to London Heathrow. The aircraft - EP-IRB - continued flying until 2002, when it was parked in Tehran.

Credit: AirTeamImages