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A scene straight out of the late 1930s as a Douglas DC-3 Dakota named “Tangaloa” cruises high over the islands of Tonga in the South Pacific. Read More…
Lufthansa has chosen the name it will use on its A380 double-decker Airbuses: “Lady Bee”.
Yup, that’s right. Read More…
Thirty-five thousand Lego bricks, eight months and one serious Lego fan named Ryan McNaught. Read More…
Lufthansa is looking for a name for the Airbus A380, a moniker or a nickname that does for the double-decker what the name “Jumbo Jet” did for Boeing’s 747 back in the 60s.
Think up the right name before the March 31 and the airline will give you, and 49 other contenders, a million air miles, which works out at a good few long-haul flights. Plus there’s the chance of getting your name in the history books. Read More…
On a trip to the Airbus factory in Toulouse some years ago, proud trechnicians showed us around the mock-up of the giant A380 double-decker. It was beautiful. It had a cocktail bar, done up in pastel colours and soft lighting.
“How many people can it carry?” I asked. Read More…
This is a photo I took of one of the first Airbus A380s being built in Toulouse in 2005. There are now 13 of the double-deckers in service with Qantas joining Emirates and Singapore Airlines as the latest operator to fly the giant to Sydney. Read More…
People love a good air disaster – unless of course they happen to be on the doomed plane. It’s a fact that a light aircraft carrying one person can crash in an otherwise unremarkable field and make the headlines, but the daily slaughter on South Africa’s roads goes mostly unreported. Read More…
