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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Flying Muffyns

The Lappy's been acting up lately. Crawls like a retarded snail with polio.

So whilst cleaning up some of my photo folders, came across these 2 old pics I took with my crappy made-in-Indonesia Nikon. These were taken during the 'grand opening' of Alliance International, my miniature HerpaWings model airport named after the Star Alliance of airlines it was supposed to serve =))




Coincidentally, in the news today, Oasis HongKong's inaugural budget long-haul flight to London was grounded because the Russians withdrew their over-flight rights at the last minute.



How these agreements for the use of airspace are worked out beats the hell out of me. I mean, this is not the first time a country has thrown a spanner in the works on a budget airline. Do these Airheads ever learn? Anyway, Oasis (formed in Feb 05) currently has a fleet of 2 Ex-Singapore Airlines B747-400s. Good choice I must say, since our National Flag carrier has an obsession with maintaining a bevy of Sweet Young Things. So the 2 MegaTops they offloaded to Oasis would still be pretty nubile =)) Actually one of the planes is only 17 years old, having served on China Airlines and Iberia Airlines previously =P

If anyone has a chance to fly on Oasis, could you get me a model of the plane in 1:500 scale please? Pretty nice livery doncha tink? Looks like I have to start a Budget Terminal next =))

And for those of you who are disappointed, just like me, that SQ's First To Fly the A380 programme didn't quite..erm...take-off, have a look at this. 75,000 pieces, 600 hours, 125 Kg in 1:25 scale. Droolz...



At LegoLand Denmark no less. I want one!

8 Comments:

Blogger kona said...

oso good that it was delayed...i noe that SQ got a damn good deal on compensation...maybe it's worth the wait...

damn complicated piece of machinery :)) friend of mine has been on board when it was flown into singapore for the air show...in his words can blardy play football in it ;)

8:53 AM  
Blogger FlyingMuffyn said...

money can lose nvm. but the damage to their reputation, dats the ouch. boeing will be laffing all the way =))

5:02 PM  
Blogger kona said...

definitely....boeing's offering is much more moduluar as well...upgrading and reconfig will be much cheaper than the 380...2ndhand users sure jialat...

6:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

erm.. now got less monthly output its time for a new lappy...

7:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i think the worst hit are the airports who already put the infrastructure in place but now have to delay for 1 whole year before it can become operational. the 777-300ER is just as exciting! first flight sin-paris in dec 06!

8:58 PM  
Blogger kona said...

boeing will win out in the end i feel...solely becos it is more flexible relatively speaking...EADS is encumbered with nationalistic bureaucracy...in this case, too many cooks do spoil the broth...

8:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

latest i heard that SQ is getting one blardy 380 FOC for the cock up!

11:14 PM  
Blogger FlyingMuffyn said...

u can't be serious!

8:29 PM  

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