To celebrate 30 years of flights to London Heathrow, American Airlines has released this tremendous, nay, glorious image of members of staff dating from 1988. I think it's probably the hair - just the wrong side of boufant - that does it for us. As to whether the jet is still in service, well, it's American, so who knows...
Credit: American Airlines
To celebrate the 2012 London Olympic Games and being the Official Air Travel Partner and Carrier What's Really Quite British and Everything. BA has produced this gold-festooned Airbus. No, we don't know why they've done a dove either (and it took us some time to work out they were feathers down the side, not the results of a particularly choppy flight). Anyway, enjoy the images.
Credit: Geoffrey Lee/BA
Having recently secured a multi-million cash boost from Etihad Airways - and probably made its immediate future safe - we're sure that Air Berlin, the carrier behind this festive Boeing 737-800, is celebrating the holiday period with an extra spring in its lederhosen. The aircraft ws snapped at Berlin Tegel earlier this month.
Credit: AirTeamImages
I've been looking for pictures of this Hello Kitty-themed Airbus A330-300 for a few weeks now and I can see it repelling as many as it draws in. Anyway, thank you to Taiwan's EVA Air for doing this, it's made the world a more day-glo place.
No cats were harmed during its production. Probably.
Credit: AirTeamImages
Because it's friday and because of the sheer amount of effort that's gone into building it - here's an example of what you can do with lego if you put your mind to it. In this case, a pretty detailed reproduction of a Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey.
Credit: Mad physicist photostream on Flickr
For more of these fantastic models - click here (and be consumed with jealousy)
Something different for a change. ANA's low cost subsidiary Peach Aviation (which apparently is a hideously contrived accronym along the lines of Pan-Asian, Energetic, Affordable, Cute & Cool, Happy - which, to my mind at least, spells out PAEACCH) has revealed the uniforms to be worn by cabin crew when it starts operations in March next year. It's um.... quite pink.
Credit: Peach Aviation
Endurance horses arrived at Cambridge Airport in the UK on an Antonov An-12 freighter.
It is the first time long distance endurance horses have arrived, bound for Newmarket racecourse, and on such a heavy aircraft.
The aircraft, which is owned by Ukranian company Meridian Airlines and chartered by chartered by Intradco, a bloodstock air transportation specialist, arrived from Nimes, France with eight horses and associated grooms.
Archie Garden, airport director at Cambridge said: "We are delighted to see charter specialists recognise Cambridge as an entry point for bloodstock from Europe. Our generous runway length of 1,965m/6447ft can support these heavy machines, and our ground staff are familiar with handling these very specific types of charters, so we are well positioned to take care of the unique charter requirements."
The airport plans to implement the Pet Passport scheme to receive domestic pets.
Picture copyright Rex Features
Pilot lands Fokker Dreidecker aircraft on its nose at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK on 12 July 2011.
Upon landing, the WW1 fighter aircraft was forced onto its nose after a sudden gust of wind.
Philip Tyler, an aircraft enthusiast and photographer said: "The Dreidecker did a display to show the sort of fighting that would have taken place during a typical dog-fight in the First World War.
"The plane has triple wings so develops a lot of lift and appears to float in the air when it is flying, which allows for some impressive manoeuvres in the air.
"But all that lift has a downside when coming into land as the slightest breeze can play havoc.
"On this occasion the plane landed when it must have caught a breeze which was just enough to unbalance it."
So, this is what happened, but what caption would you add?
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