Their white staring eyes came straight at me, and then the red traffic light went orange before turning to green, just as a blazing comet crashed through the atmosphere...............

For a short while I wasn't listening to the sports news on BBC Radio 5 Live.

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Some people are very bored.
Some people are weird
Some people are very weird
Some people are bored and weird.
When you're bored and weird, strange things happen.

Some weird person will like it!

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Found it difficult to get a viewpoint where the planes moved far enough across the frame in the allotted exposure time to give an interesting pattern. It would be better to have a higher viewpoint but there aren't any around the perimeter of the airport.

The glow on the horizon wasn't an earlier flight that didn't make it but was the glow of a bonfire to celebrate Guy Fawkes night.

Anyone interested on trying a similar (and better shot) can note the position it was taken from on the handy little flickr map.

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The planes still trundle through the dark at speed, but at least I managed to capture the impression you get of 400 tonnes of huge flying machine driving over the top of you as you enter the tunnel. Here is a fully laden PIA Boeing 777 taxiing for take off from Manchester airport.

One day a plane will stop over the tunnel and I'll get the picture right. One day.

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Warp speed through the tunnels under the runways at Manchester Airport. 30s exposure.

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