At LCY I once saw a car that must have been parked a long time as it was covered in dust. Next to the usual ones like “clean me” it had various dates written on it (spanning at least 2 weeks). The best one though was “now an official tourist attraction”. I should have taken a photo of that one.

The real report is not out, and the Telegraaf is not the best source of information. It’s kind a like “The Sun” for the Netherlands.

Haven’t they already retired their A300s? We only get to see A320/321s and the occaisional MD here.

Nearly always in the tail mate. It’s like in a car crash, I’d rather be in the ash tray as that always survives. The tail is an Aeroplane’s ash tray 😉

And they say smoking kills!

It´s also been proven that it´s better for a motorcyclist to wear a base-ball hat then to wear a helmet. A Belgian study revealed this. They threw a helmet and a hat from a 10 story building, the helmet shattered into pieces, but the hat survived the fall.

And here ended the off-topic bit.

Going back on topic, does anyone have close-up shots of the plane? I’d like to be able to read all the comments on the plane.

Close 🙂

“Schon wieder?” is the correct form.

What you said was: Nice again.

schön gut 😉 (sic)

I think another reason that he had ordered the 330 is the lack of cheap leases on quad jets.

That I am not convinced about. Even in this economy there are almost no A330s parked. However, there are a few A346s parked, including a few new builds that where not taken up, Iberia for instance.

The A330 will serve them well, no doubt about it. I have been on the A330 to the USA a few times on KLM. Very nice flight!

Furthermore, I’m fairly certain I read somewhere that statistically there were more engine shut downs per million flying hours on 4-engined long haul aircraft than twins.

That seems obvious. Twice the engines, twice the potential for an engine shutdown. The thing is, with a quad you still got 75% of power left, with a twin you are down to 50%.

You can’t have done that much flying then. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to take my shoes off in the last 5 years!

Paul

About 6 to 8 flights a year for the last 3 or 4 year. So not the most active traveller, but still a good amount of flights. Most of my flights go to London but also Birmingham, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Milano and most recently Washington. The next one will probably be to Salzburg in a week or two. Not yet booked so might still change my mind.

Most of the flights depart from Schiphol, but occaisionally from Eindhoven as well.