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Title: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: sbwhart on September 16, 2010, 01:07:38 PM
We're going on holiday in a few months time and we're flying on a Airbus A380 the double Decker job so thought we'd check it out at Manchester here's a few pics

ITS BLOODY HUGE  

:jaw:

(http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq32/sbwhart/A380/IMG_2305.jpg)(http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq32/sbwhart/A380/IMG_2307.jpg)

(http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq32/sbwhart/A380/IMG_2308.jpg)

(http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq32/sbwhart/A380/IMG_2309.jpg)

Stew
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: Bluechip on September 16, 2010, 01:32:57 PM
Stew

If they put petrol in it, I would leg it smartish if I were you ...   :thumbup:

S/B Jet A-1 I would think  ... much better for jet engines ..


Dave BC
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: tumutbound on September 16, 2010, 09:31:17 PM
Do they give you a map so you can find your seat?
Bit bigger than the Airbus 320 I'm about to take a trip on.
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: dsquire on September 16, 2010, 10:11:57 PM
Stew

Do they have a shuttle service up and down the aisle or do you have to hoof it?  :lol: :lol:

Cheers  :beer:

Don
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: HS93 on September 16, 2010, 10:34:04 PM
If you are flying emerates you will enjoy it, we used them to go to perth in april, nice flight looked after well we went on the older plane still holded a lot of people, they had a few of the big ones on the tarmack at Dubie, what a monster airport. and if you go Buisness this is the legroom

Peter
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: Stilldrillin on September 17, 2010, 02:19:20 AM
Stew,
I've just had a vision of meself, wandering around on one of those things, lost!  ::)

Wouldn't half cop it from Christine, when she found me......  :bugeye:

ENJOY!!      :D

David D
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: andyf on September 19, 2010, 06:30:11 PM
That damn thing landed for the first time at Ringway Manchester Airport about 3 weeks ago. Just afterwards, I happened to be driving past towards for my weekly symposium (sounds impressive, but it's Greek for a session in the pub) with other retired old farts. Major traffic jam as police shepherded crowds of wild-eyed men clutching airband radios back to the cars they had abandoned on the roadside verges in their haste to have a look at the plane.

And on the subject of planes, I like the livery adopted by this budget South African airline:

(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv257/andyf1108/Aircraft/Pic1.jpg)

(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv257/andyf1108/Aircraft/Pic2.jpg)

(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv257/andyf1108/Aircraft/Pic3.jpg)

(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv257/andyf1108/Aircraft/Pic4.jpg)

(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv257/andyf1108/Aircraft/Pic5.jpg)

(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv257/andyf1108/Aircraft/Pic6.jpg)

Andy
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: Stilldrillin on September 20, 2010, 04:04:28 AM
I love that paint job Andy!  :clap: :clap:

An airline business with a great sense of humour.....  :thumbup:

David D
Title: Re: Big White Petrol Pigeon
Post by: John Stevenson on September 20, 2010, 04:33:59 AM
True story.

In a previous life we used to service aircraft refuelling vehicles and spent a lot of time out at airports. Just as you can hire cars you can also hire aircraft on long or short  term lease. Anyway one of the budget airlines who has since finished realised they needed an extra plane for the summer runs so they hired one from Air Lingus.

Standard operating procedure, it's checked over at start of contract by the budget line engineers, repainted brown and orange in their colours and once done it's repainted in Air Lingus colours and checked over by Air Lingus engineers.

All went well and at the end of the contract it was being checked over when they noticed a small white rectangular mark on the nose, a set of steps was found and their engineer climbed up only to see it was a small painted badge that read :-

"This aircraft must be flown green side up "

John S.