Big Aeroplanes

A year more do us echo of the International Aerial Festival of Vigo in his edition of the 2010.  This festival this consolidating as one of the best of estaña and the past year achieved to gather to some 400.000 people.

All this smart so that this Sunday 18 of July celebrate the seventh edition of the International Aerial Festival of Vigo 2009 in the beach of Samil (map), from the 9:00 of the morning until 15:00 roughly.

During the Friday and Saturday will be able to see to the pilot flying on the city doing the previous trainings, in fact, while I write this article can hear and see to the aeroplanes.

They Will take part more than 20 patrols and pilot acrobáticos of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and U.S.. Between the participants fits to highlight:

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Lufthansa Has received yesterday 19 of May officially his first Airbus To380, this to been delivered to the airline by Airbus in his centre of deliveries in Hamburg, from where despegó later course to Frankfurt, where will be his base.

Lufthansa Has request 15 aeroplanes To380 , with engines Rolls-Royce Trent 900, of which expects to receive four this year. These models have of eight seats of first class in the upper cover, 98 seats in class business, and 420 in tourist.

This first copy will be doing flights of airport to airport during the next weeks for training of the crews, and will première officially the 6 of June with a trip to Johannesburgo to transport there to the selection of German football to play the world-wide.

The regular service will begin the 11 of June with three weekly flights Frankfurt-Tokyo, substituting to the Boeing 747-400, although it will happen to be daily in what Lufthansa receive his second To380. The following destinations in which employed the following To380 will be Peking and Johannesburgo.

With this are 28 To380 those that are in service all over the world with Singapore Airlines, Qantas, Emirates and Air France, that in total carry realised more than 14.000 commercial flights; Airbus has firm requests by 202 aeroplanes.

More information: Airbus

Such and as we announced in the articulate previous, and with something more than a year of delay on the initially due date and after one expects additional of two hours and average by fault of the bad reigning time, finally despego the first Boeing 747-8F to the 21:39 hour of Spain, 12:39 local hour.

The flight had a length of 3 hours and 39 minutes of length, which transcurrió without problems and is the first of the more than 1.600 hours of proof before Boeing deliver the first aeroplane to Cargolux to ends of this year.

During this first flight the pilots Mark Feuerstein and Tom Imrich carried to the aeroplane to an altitude of crucero of 17.000 feet (5.181 metres) and to a maximum speed of 230 knots (426 kilometres by hour) while they checked his basic characteristics of handle and the operation of the engines.

The past Friday 5 of February realised the last proofs of rodadura to high speed of the new Boeing 747-8F that podeis see in the following video.

In this proof, the aeroplane Boeing has achieved a maximum speed of roughly 90 knots (166,6 kilometres by hour) and with this, has finished with the proofs in earth of the Boeing 747-8F, the version of load of the last version of 747 that will have a scope of 8.130 km and a capacity of load of 140.000 kg.

It remains all smart pues so that tomorrow, today 8 of February, do his first flight, of face to the delivery of the first aeroplane in the last quarter of the year to Cargolux, whereas the version of passengers is not due that go in in service until the year 2011.

Boeing retransmitirá this first flight through Internet in 747-8 Freighter First Flight Webcast to the 7 of the afternoon, hour of Spain.