Major structural sections of the A380 are built in France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Due to their size, they are brought to the assembly hall (the Jean-Luc Lagardère Plant) in Toulouse in France by surface transportation, though some parts are moved by the A300-600ST Beluga aircraft used in the construction of other Airbus models. Components of the A380 are provided by suppliers f...
Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, has started a program for developing the largest aircraft ever built, the Airbus A380, which will beable to carry between550 and 800 passengers on twodecks. The six components of the airplane (two wings, the rear, central, and front fuselages, and the horizontal tail plane) are to be produced in different European cities. They need to be transported f...
If you didn't know it but Santa's sleigh is parked at Ilulissat Airport.
Every year up to Chrtstmas Santa leaves his residence at Uummannaq to Ilulissat Airport with his rein deers to fly ride out to all kids in the world. :-)
I put together a set of placemarks with information and multiple angles of some of the best flightsim locations on the Earth. Make sure terrain is turned on. More instructions within the file.
The most appropriate place to start with is the Machynlleth Loop which is usually referred to by aircrews as ‘The Loop’ although the USAF crews refer to it as ‘The Roundabout’. It is literally a roundabout of flowed valleys running counter-clockwise following the A470 north eastwards from Machynlleth in the south to Dinas Mawddwy then heading north west to join the A487 at the Cross Foxes Inn. ...
Danmarks Transport Center (DTC) nort of Vejle is the biggest lay-by in Denmark constructed mainly for truckers but car drivers and MC's are also welcome. It's also called Gateway E45.
The facility has a lot to offer. A motel, gas station, dining facilities, banking, laundry, freight center and storage hotel.
Keele services is a motorway service station, between junctions 15 and 16 of the ... M6 Motorway service stations. The Tidy Britain Group held an experiemental project here in 1998. Don't know what that involved, but it was compared against a similar project on the A1 at Grantham. Popular with local students (from Keele University) for whom it is the only place open locally in the small hours O...
Very distinctive from the road- features a round tower that resembles a Air Traffic Control Tower, which originally was a restaurant, currently in use as offices. The tower is called The Pennine Tower. An employee of Forton said that the Pennine Tower closed after complaints that it looked like an UFO when lit up at night and was distracting- (Sounds like an urban myth, but its a great tale, It...
Charnock Richard services is a motorway service station, between junctions 27 and 28 of the M6 motorway in England. It was the first service station on that motorway.
Burton In Kendal Services Station, M6 Burton In Kendal Services A Single sided, inter junction site, or, in other words, it serves the northbound side of the motorway. Killington Lake serves the Southbound side about 7 miles north of this site. One of the few sites where the Head Lease is owned by a petrol company. The services are by arrangement.
