Qantas A380-800 - Push back, Taxi, & Take off - Sydney Airport - 4K
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QF1 - Sydney to Dubai
A380-800 - VH-OQB 'Hudson Fysh'
Order for twelve Airbus A380 first announced by Qantas Airways, November 29, 2000.
First flown at Toulouse in green primer with all-white tail - June 25, 2008.
Powered by Rolls Royce Trent 972-84 engines (-842 series)
Sir Wilmot 'Hudson Fysh' was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas.
Also Includes:
VH-EKX - SAAB 340B Take off - 'Shark Cage Diving Livery' - Built by Saab Aircraft AB, Linkoping, Sweden - 1991.
9V-SVB - Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 - Landing
SQ241 - Singapore to Sydney
A380-800 - VH-OQK - 'Reginal Duigan' -
Eleventh aircraft ordered by Qantas Airways - March 6, 2001
First flown at Toulouse in green primer and Qantas tail - April 1, 2011.
John Robertson Duigan 1882-1951
Reginald Charles Duigan 1889-1966
On July 16, 1910, John Robertson Duigan flew an aircraft (a seven metre hop), at his family's property 'Spring Plains' at Mia Mia, near Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
This is acknowledged as the first powered, controlled flight of an all Australian designed and built aeroplane and occurred less than seven years after the Wright Brothers' 'Flyer' lifted off at Kittyhawk, North Carolina.
In the five countries where powered flights were achieved, considerable technical resources were available making Duigan's effort all the more remarkable because he accomplished the flight with little outside help other than several texts, the magazine Aero and the 'engineering skills of his younger brother Reginald Charles'.
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/duigan_gallery_22.html