A retrospective on the Qantas 767 fleet over 29 years of service.
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Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti on dual-brand strategy, Asia & being a modern airline
A great interview on all accounts, but there’s one clear stand out reference: “A good dual-brand airline is like toothpaste: you can choose between 20, 30 distinct brands on the shelf at the supermarket but they are quietly owned by one or two manufacturers. But you’d never know it.”
A record breaker retires
After a final celebration in Qantas’ Hangar 96 in a few hours Qantas’ first B747-438 VH-OJA ‘City of Canberra’ will touch down in Los Angeles ending 25 years, three months and 20 days of commercial service. Holding a distance record, only surpassed by Boeing’s 777-200LR record in 2005, and speed record that it still holds, -OJA […]
Oregon Christmas Tree Harvest
Try hanging your decorations with this much festive skill.
50 years of Australian domestic jet services
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Australia’s domestic jet age. On October 16, 1964, Ansett’s B727-77 VH-RME and TAA’s B727-76 VH-TJA which had tailed each other across the Pacific operating Seattle – San Francisco – Honolulu – Canton Island – Nadi, arrived at Melbourne Essendon Airport. Having won a coin toss Ansett-ANA’s 727 had the honour of landing first. On […]
Aeroplane derivative design era begins
“We have every justification for taking an optimistic view on the mid- and long-term prospects for this program,” Franz-Josef Strauss, the chairman of Airbus Industrie on the A320 programme in 1987. It was a grand declaration. Just over 27 years and 7 months after Airbus’ first A320-100 MSN001 took to the sky Airbus’ A320neo flew for the first […]
A320neo’s maiden flight
Subject to favourable weather, Airbus has set the date for the maiden sortie of its A320neo for Thursday, 25 September. Powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G the F-WNEO is expected to depart Toulouse at 10:30 local. Eventually eight aircraft will be part of the A320neo family’s flight test campaign with certification on track for late 2015. Feature […]
AIR14
Amazing footage from Swiss’ accompanied A330 flyover of Air14 at Payerne in celebration of the Swiss Air Force’s centenary.