Hey there,

I got the photo of the Boeing 777-200LR, I took it at the Auckland INTL Airport on the 20th July, Hope you like it.

Thats a superb angled pic of the Emirates A346 :dev2:

Does anyone remember their plans to make a twin deck version of it?

or the very near tie up with Airbus??

McD knew it was in trouble long befor the boeing take-over, the only thing that had kept it going was those big fat and juicy defence contracts. McD would of been Airbus’s american marketing arm and it would of been able to handle production for the North and South American sales, the only hang up was McD wanted to keep building and selling its aeroplanes,which would of been in direct comptition with Airbus.

McD tried to forge partnerships all over the world, there was twin engine versions of the DC10, which was being designed in partnership with Sud-Aviation (the for-runner to Airbus).

you look back at the DC3,4,6,7,8 and early DC9’s and you see a company with a superb pedigree in aeroplane manufacture, then towards the later years you could see the writing was on the wall for this once mighty company.

what might of been if McD did come into the Airbus family?
What might of been if they had been allowed to design a new wing for MD11?

i cant believe how many people winge about not having IFE on a shorthaul flight, i really wanna see re-runs of Mr Bean or My Family etc.

If you need IFE that badly.. the Alpha news stand at luton airport hire out portable dvd players and up to nine dvds for £10 a week i believe

flew on a DC10 with BCal from LGW to Faro, very impressed with it from what i can remember 20+ years ago, also alvin stardust was on the same flight.

The oldman flew from LHR to JFK on a BA Tristar back in the early nineties so he could go and run the NY Marathon

Wow……That is now my new Background!

Is that the Mini-iPod?

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

The female king crab incubates as many as 400,000 young for 11 months in a brood pouch under her abdomen.

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.

All consumption of alcohol is strictly regulated in Norway, and is only sold through state owned shops called Vinmonopolet. Nevertheless between 25 and 40 % of all alcohol consumed is either smuggled or illegally made at home.

Hong Kong has the world’s largest double-decker tram fleet in the world

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

When opossums are playing ‘possum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The annual harvest of an entire coffee tree is required to make 1 pound of ground coffee.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds

Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.