How much more innocent can you get than a game of peek-a-boo? Well it is not so innocent when a child ended up locked in an overhead bin on a recent Virgin Blue flight. Natalie Williamson says her and her 17month son and husband were on a Virgin Blue flight from Fiji to Sydney, when […]
So what the heck does “TAP” stand for? When the airline was established in 1945 it stood for Transportes Areos Portugueses. In 1979 the name was changed to TAP Air Portugal and finally it was simplified to just TAP Portugal. TAP has an all Airbus fleet of A319, A320, A321, A330 and the A340. They […]
Watching a space shuttle take off is a pretty amazing experience. Seeing it take to the sky from an airliner is that much better. This is an amateur video of the Space Shuttle Discovery taking off for the last time. Some readers on Airliners.net pin-pointed the flight as a JetBlue flight from Orlando, FL to […]
You guys have shown your livery skills, but what about landing gears? What kind of planes do these landing gears belong to? No prizes on this one, but a nice shout out with the answers. Uber bonus if you can tell the airline (I know on a few you can). UPDATE: Although the “official” contest […]
Flashing lights, warning alarms and that shrieking voice saying “pull up.” There are a lot of emergency indicators in the cockpit of an airliner and Boeing is looking at adding another. The warnings already hit two senses: sight and hearing… it’s time to add touch. Boeing submitted a patent application to make the pilot’s seat vibrate in […]