Remembering the First Airbus A-380 Arrival at KJFK
Airbus’s A-380 super-sized airliner was launched at the end of the year 2000. A little more than four years later, the first flight of a prototype occurred, on April 27, 2005. European and U.S....
Category: Airbus
Retired and Vanished Airlines and Airliners, Part 2
Here’s a second collection of older airliners, liveries and companies that no longer exist. Airliners have been retired, color schemes changes, and companies either merged or ceased operations. Sometimes, all three conditions have been...
Retired and Vanished Airlines and Airliners, Part 1
Here’s a collection of older airliners, liveries and companies that no longer exist. Airliners have been retired, color schemes changes, and companies either merged or ceased operations. Sometimes, all three conditions have been met…...
COVID-19 Airlines and Airliner Casualties, Groundings and Retirements
Air Canada and its subsidiary Rouge will be retiring many of their Boeing B-767-300s due to the airline industry’s downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Call it what you will… the “COVID-19 pandemic” has...
JFK Airliners of the late 20th Century
Concorde served JFK from both Paris’ De Gualle and London’s Heathrow airports. Living in southern New Hampshire during the 1980s and 1990s, it was a relatively short drive – about fifty miles – to...
The Millennial Farnborough International Air Shows
ATR-42-500 soon to be delivered to Cuban airline Aerogaviota, at the 2002 Farnborough trade show. Here are a number of aircraft photos featuring the aircraft from the 2000 and 2002 Farnborough International Air...
Airbus Celebrates Their 50th Year in Business; Delivers Their 12,000th Aircraft
Air Tahiti Nui A-340-300 At the big Paris Air Show of 1969, a collaboration between two countries with rich aviation histories signaled the beginning of what is known today as the Airbus company. Fifty...
