The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire a 41-gun salute in London's Green Park at 2pm on Tuesday July 23 2013 after riding past Buckingham Palace. In celebration of the birth just under 24 hours earlier of a son to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Six field guns fired the salute in ten second intervals.

Fly-by-wire special delivery. British Airways’ first A380 lands at Heathrow at 10:30am on Thursday July 4 2013 after its delivery flight from Toulouse. Seen here over Myrtle Avenue in Hounslow just a few seconds before touchdown on runway 27L. A landmark event - the first UK carrier to operate the Airbus superjumbo which now becomes BA’s flagship aircraft, taking over from the Boeing 747-400. The A380 is the world’s largest passenger jet, carrying more than 500 passengers.

Kew Gardens June 2013.