A few hours before on the other side of the World Pope Benedict XVI boarded on the Qantas B747-400 “QF6035” departing from Sydney to Rome Ciampino via Darwin (as usual the return flight of the Pontiff arrives in Ciampino), I went to Fiumicino to take a few pictures of another B747-400 landing on RWY 16R: the Japan Airlines flight JAL 409 from Tokyo. Here are the pictures I took of the JAL flight and a few other aircraft departing from RWY 25 or landing on 16R.
After 37 years, NASA is about to retire its DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory. It will be replaced by a B777-200. On Apr. 1, 2024, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft, registration N817NA, completed its final mission and landed […]
The XB-1 demonstrator provides the foundation for Boom’s supersonic airliner Overture. The XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator of Boom Supersonic flew for the first time on March 22, 2024, from the Mojave Air & Space Port […]
The X-59 made its official debut at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. NASA and Lockheed Martin rolled out the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft during a ceremony hosted by prime contractor Lockheed Martin Skunk […]
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