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Following my post on the name Lufthansa has chosen for its A380 double-deckers, I dug around for some images from the airline’s past, back in the day when air travel really was cool and all you had to do was advertise it. Read More…
Lufthansa has chosen the name it will use on its A380 double-decker Airbuses: “Lady Bee”.
Yup, that’s right. Read More…
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.” 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…
Saturday marked 22 years to the day since the South African Airways Boeing 747, Helderberg, crashed off the coast of Mauritius after an uncontrollable fire broke out on the aircraft, killing all 159 people on board. Did SAA remember it? I didn’t see anything. Did you? Read More…
That was one of the great lines from the classic film Withnail & I, when Withnail, red-eyed and boozed to the point of staggery, approaches Jake, the flint-eyed poacher, and asks him about the purloined pheasants he has stashed about his person.
In recent weeks, one might have asked similar questions about any South African Airways 747 flying into Heathrow, except SAA no longer uses 747s on the London route. Read More…
While the Boeing 747′s 40th birthday continues to generate a mild flurry of excitement around the world – except, perhaps, back in its own home town at Paine Field in Everett, Washington – I thought I’d share this classic photo with you. It’s a Lufthansa business class seat and, yes, it IS from the Jet Age, circa 1970, so it’s not that old.
Lufthansa had it proudly displayed during a temporary exhibition to mark their 50th birthday. The front end of the aircraft, where all the happy, shiny people sit, has certainly come a long way. I guess that’s why the back end has got steadily worse over time for anyone over four-foot tall – someone has to pay for all that legroom and opera hall space up front, and I don’t mean in money.
The Boeing 747 turned 40 today. Its first flight was on February 9, 1969. Forty years is a great milestone for one of the world’s iconic aircraft. For one thing, it’s been in production all that time, which proves the old piece of wisdom “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. There aren’t many aircraft that can claim that. Read More…
