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thatcrazycajunCNN.com reports that, after over a year of technical glitches (including one involving its literally hundreds of miles of wiring) and financial problems that would make any CEO headdesk repeatedly and gnash her/his teeth, Airbus' A380, the largest commercial passenger aircraft ever built, will finally make its maiden trans-Atlantic flight to the States today, landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, NY as a colossal sales-pitch stunt aimed at persuading U.S. airlines to consider ordering a few. Read the story here.
Considering that Airbus has just opened a new plant in Mobile, AL to help the ongoing recovery of the Gulf Coast from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 1.5 years ago, one cannot help but feel a certain sympathy for the troubles the consortium has had getting this overgrown puppy off the ground (so to speak). I'm looking forward to (hopefully) flying in one when I finally get to visit my Songbird in Nairobi on her birthday.
What's your favorite flying experience, military, commercial or private? I've been an aviation nut since one of my late mom's old boyfriends flew her and us kids from Lafayette to New Orleans in his little bitty Cessna decades ago.
Considering that Airbus has just opened a new plant in Mobile, AL to help the ongoing recovery of the Gulf Coast from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 1.5 years ago, one cannot help but feel a certain sympathy for the troubles the consortium has had getting this overgrown puppy off the ground (so to speak). I'm looking forward to (hopefully) flying in one when I finally get to visit my Songbird in Nairobi on her birthday.
What's your favorite flying experience, military, commercial or private? I've been an aviation nut since one of my late mom's old boyfriends flew her and us kids from Lafayette to New Orleans in his little bitty Cessna decades ago.