Posts Tagged ‘Lufthansa’
 

 

Researching Weather and Climate Change at 35,000ft

Over 40 years ago, airliners started being used to collect high altitude air samples for climate research. Today that research continues, and has been expanded to improve weather forecasting and also better understand the effec...
by Gabe Andino
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RwandAir Gets Its Own Beer, Woman Lives in San Francisco Airport for Eight Days: Final Call

RwandAir gets its own beer, a woman lives in SFO when she can't pay her baggage fees, a Singpore 777 rolls onto the grass, British Airways has a deal to buy bmi, and more...
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Lufthansa Flies First Airbus A380 Service to the United States

Lufthansa on Monday flew its first Airbus A380 service between Germany and the United States, the new "super jumbo" jet landing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from Frankfurt.
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Lufthansa's first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (D-ABYA) takes off on a test flight. (Photo by Boeing)

Boeing Delivers First 747-8 Intercontinental to Lufthansa

Lufthansa on Wednesday became the first airline to take the delivery of Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental, a critical milestone for the largest passenger plane ever built by the airframer.
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On This Day in Aviation History: October 13th

Uruguayan Flight 571 crashes into the Andes, where 16 people survive 72 days before being rescued, inspiring the movie "Alive". Also, Lufthansa Flight 181 is hijacked, a Bolivian 707 crashes in Santa Cruz, and an Il-62 crashes ...
by Phil Derner Jr.