The 2015 Frankfurt aviation weekend was a raving success. Like every year, on the first weekend of November we have two large airline conventions in Frankfurt which attract airline buffs from all over Europe, North America and Asia. The airline slide convention organized by Chris Witt is always well attend with slide punters buying, selling […]
The Douglas DC-10 faded into the limelight in 2015, when Bangladesh Biman went down in the airline geek history books for operating the world’s last scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-10 aircraft. Some forty five years earlier on July 23, 1970, Douglas staged a gala rollout lunch ceremony for the first DC-10 to a specially […]
When you purchase a new car the salesman takes great pride, pomp and ceremony in handing you the keys to your new set of wheels. Did you know the same applies when you pick your shiny new Boeing jetliner from the Boeing factory in Seattle? We’re not sure how long this tradition dates back, but […]