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To mark the 10th anniversary of the delivery of the first Qantas A380 Nancy-Bird Walton in September 2008, today’s Throwback Thursday (TBT) features are republished from our November 2008 issue’s indepth coverage of the arrival of the first of the Flying Kangaroo’s super jumbos.
They throw in a free load of fuel when you buy an Airbus A380. But when the largest aircraft in commercial aviation costs north of $300 million each, that’s probably the least that manufacturer Airbus could do.
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Roy Fordham
says:My wife and I flew with the A380 ” Nancy Bird” VH -OQA many years ago, we felt it was great very priviledge, as we had been great friends of Nancy’s in Sydney, as members of AHSA, another member and I were invited to her home for morning coffee.
My wife and I met up with Nancy in England a long time ago, at a de-Havilland meet, we hadn’t told her we were going to be there, and her face was a ‘picture’, when we walked up behind her, with a ‘Hello Nancy’, what a wonderful woman she was, and starting her life in the aviation world, by cleaning ‘Kingsford Smith’s spark plugs, would have been very special.