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Today in aviation history 27 April

PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:31 am
by cowpatz
Yep it's 10 years since this big bird flew for the first time. Appropriately registered F-WWOW, after a 3h 45 m flight from Toulouse the plane returned for a fly-past at 1000ft before landing.
Ugly, inefficient and give me a Boeing any day, but still a feat of engineering all the same.

http://youtu.be/scAjfb1G2Kc

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Re: Today in aviation history 27 April

PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:03 am
by Ian Warren
I do wonder what they were thinking with the plastic surgery on that nose :huh: