The first commercial flights of the Airbus 380 has commenced with Singapore Airlines taking the first delivery. Our photo shows one of the prototype Airbus 380’s decked out in Qantas paintwork visiting Melbourne Australia on one of it’s test flights. The new Airbus has revolutionized travel with luxury and comfort never before seen on an aircraft. The Singapore Airlines plane even offers suites to its first class guests, where travelers have full size beds, a cinema style television and even an area for office work. So far Airbus has 177 orders for this massive double decker plane and Qantas, Emirates and Singapore Airlines are among the lucky few expected to receive their new jets in 2008.
January 9th, 2008
Transeum is more than just cars, its all things transport so we thought it was about time we featured a plane, and there is no better than the majestic Concorde. The Concorde was the first and only supersonic passenger jet, although the Russians nearly had one working, we will feature that in a few days time. There were only 16 production Concordes ever produced all being flown by either British Airways or Air France. Today most of the Concordes are on display at museums or airports around the world after their grounding a few years back. F-BVFB the 7th Concorde to be produced made her maiden flight in March 1976 and today stands proudly at the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, South West Germany an hour or so’s drive from Stuttgart. The museum is an amazing transport center with all types of cars, boats, military machinery, planes and jets. The two biggest draw cards are the Concorde and the Russian Tupolev TU-144.
December 26th, 2007
