Friday plane porn

Give the people what they want.

Today's pic is a prime example of an oh shit moment.



What you see is not as bad as it looks however. The American 767-200 (the one in flames) is not a regular scheduled flight, but rather is in for maintenance and is having it's engines tested. (for good reason apparently) Nevertheless this result was not expected and caused quite a few people to need a change of underpants. Can you imagine what it must be like to be the pilot on the New Zealand 747-400 taxing there, trying to calm the nerves of passengers? "uhhhh...on your left you will see another aircraft going up in a ball of flames. Oh the humanity, blah blah blah, now on to Auckland.

Also last week I stated that the A-380 would make it's first commercial flight later this year. Yeah, about that...Airbus announced this week that there were yet more problems with the A-380 development and that it would be spring 2007 at the earliest when the first A-380 would carry passengers. This is not the first delay as the A-380 was originally supposed to be ready last year. Airlines are less than pleased and Airbus stock has taken a nosedive as a result.

All that and I still think it's ugly!