Something Fun
The clip above is nothing short of gratuitous airplane porn…in French. I confess to not knowing where it comes from or even what is being said in the clip, however the airplane geek eye candy of three Mirage 2000s intercepting a poorly disguised Qatar Airways A340-600 is nothing short of awesome.
Second 747-8I customer?
The grapevine hums… Order for 8? Let the speculation begin. JAL? Arik? Korean? Cathay?
3000th 737 NG
Somewhere inside the Renton, WA factory is the 3000th Next Generation 737 aircraft. The fuselage of the aircraft departed Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, KS a few weeks ago. The aircraft will eventually end up as a 737-800 for Jet Lite of India with a delivery sometime around the middle of August or so.
This coming weekend I’ll be heading to Wisconsin for the Experimental
Aircraft Association’s AirVenture at Whitman Regional Field in Oshkosh.
It promises to be quite a week (like last year!)
with the largest gathering of aircraft anywhere in the world. Show
highlights will include the A380 and White Knight Two. It will also mark the beginning of two weeks on the
road that will take me to London as well. Spotting at Heathrow, anyone?
Iceland to Seattle
An Icelandair Boeing 757-200 (TF-FIA) touched down in Seattle yesterday on the airline’s inaugural flight between Keflavik and the Pacific Northwest. The airline takes advantage of Iceland’s geography by flying an almost polar route through
Greenland and Canada to arrive in Seattle 7-8 hours after departure.
Icelandair announced the new service very shortly after SAS decided to
cancel its Seattle-Copenhagen flight.
Facebook Take 2
My attempt a few weeks ago to set up a Facebook page was summarily thwarted by the always clever Terms of Service agreement that says you can’t have two Facebook profiles. I’ve accepted my fate on this one and set up a decidedly awkward “Fan” page for FlightBlogger. Not too much of a fan myself of the idea, but it’s a good way to extend the reach of this blog and make sure you can get the lastest via Facebook.
There are a bunch of different items I’m working on. More later.
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