A380 in Emirates colours
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I am all for European aircraft, however it certainly looks out of proportion. Once it has been stretched and the passenger capacity increased by 60% I am sure that it will become a swan. I should also add it will have to overcome US protectionism on the grounds that it "too big, too white, the airline name has an e in it, too noisy (shades of Concorde), etc etc.
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Freaking ugly, as mentioned previously the 747 looks great, the 330 is not too bad either but the 380 just looks wrong. That's not to say it won't be successful, I won't be in any hurry to climb onboard though.
Better go and spend my saturday morning off on Jumeirah Beach and get a gander at it
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I'm afraid I'm of the "if it looks good, it'll fly good" school, and IMHO, the beast doesn't pass that test.
But perhaps it'll grow on me...
On to another point altogether, I'm not absolutely sure of my facts here, but if I'm right, it's rather ironic (or something) that -004 has made its first public appearance in Emirates' colours when the aircraft is destined to go to Etihad.
But perhaps it'll grow on me...
On to another point altogether, I'm not absolutely sure of my facts here, but if I'm right, it's rather ironic (or something) that -004 has made its first public appearance in Emirates' colours when the aircraft is destined to go to Etihad.
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Also interesting to see that Emirates got the full colour scheme (including tail), whereas the aircraft on the promo tour wasn't fully painted in each of the companies logos (Singapore, Qantas, etc.)
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Better go and spend my saturday morning off on Jumeirah Beach and get a gander at it
Hoping to get a sneak butchers at it if it sneaks into DXB under cover of darkness tonight - dunno if that's the plan, anyone got any ideas? Can't just be positioning in from Europe and going straight into the Burj photo shoot can it....?
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