It's over 45 tonnes, and massive, bigger than the Concorde model, but what sort of impression does this give. Without being xenophobic, at a time when we should be saluting British engineering and design, blatantly displaying a foriegn companies plane at one of our main international airports, seems wrong to me.

Have a read and view the report on the construction and installation here.

Tell me what you think

Andy
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Some interesting reading, and of course a lovely picture of a Vulcan.

Read the story here

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I am so jealous and would love to work there.

There's even a clip of the Vulcan doing her practice circuit ready for Farnborough 2008

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The time is 7:00 am Japanese time (according to the Japanese girl sitting next to me, wearing a flu mask). Thirty minutes to go. Several things bothered me. Thanks to the very unorganized packing moments (Zidane was having his end-year school events, therefore my concentration was divided), I forgot so many things. Chiku's name card, to name one. The namecards I brought were only the ones of business partners (I'm so ready for the business meeting --pfft!)

Btw, the red-neck inside of me amazed when seeing the tiny LCD screen on the back of the seat in front of me. There are wired remote equipped with tiny fingertip keyboards. The girl next to me already watched some dancing movie, but my head was heavy and my eyes hurting. So I spent most of my precious time not enjoying the new Boeing A380 facilities, but sleep.

Now waken up, I tried to play with the thing (like first timer I'm so goofy), and I found there are facilities for language training. Haha... funny huh?The girl next to me must think that I'm pretty ridiculous, but who cares.. Semakin kampungan, semakin PD!

Another thing that I forgot to buy is the electric converter, though my friends had reminded me since I'm still in the country. Yes, yes, my mind is failing me.

And I'm sort of upset for not exchanging my USD with JPY at CGK, because when I tried to exchange in Changi, the rate is bad. So my last chance is Narita. After another meal on the air, we finally arrived. Felt kind of drowsy, I didn't quickly realized I'm already in Japan. 

On the immigration line (where they segregate Japanese passport holders with the rest), I met one participants for the meeting. Wow, a fellow countryman! Quite grateful, having the cramped mouth for one day without nobody to talk to except for the stewardess. Turned out that we are picked up by the organizer with the same car. 

After claiming the baggage, my friend spotted the pick-up (spoke a little English). I even got a chance to exchange my money to yen. Yay! I can shop again :D

After that, we met up with another participant from Thailand. All names will be kept anonymous for the privacy of the actors in this blog :P  Then all three of us were driven in a van from Narita to Shonan, Fujisawa, where we would join the meeting tomorrow.  Tomorrow? Hell no!!

Apparently the driver had his own ideas to realize. After three hours or so driving, with the thought of having a shower, a clean clothes and wishfully a nap, we were dropped (by force, I should say!) to the university, not to the hotel. I had no idea, who told this guy to have us deserted to the meeting place (with our luggage), and then drove away like a mad man, after I confronted him to take us to the hotel instead. He blurted out some Japanese while unloading our luggage to the yard of unknown site in the university. He had issues, I had to say.

So there we were, me and my two new friends. Had to do something, I opened my suitcase, took out the hand-out the organizer sent us before our departure to Japan, which contained the phone number we should contact for emergency. Now is emergency, I thought as grumpily dialed my friend's mobile phone on the public phone found in nearest spot. No answer. Tried another one, worked out. I couldn't hold myself, I told  him about the crazy pick-up from EO. He just laughed, and not long he picked us up from the front of the public phone.

Shortly say, Goodbye hot shower, goodbye clean clothes ( I must stink like hell), goodbye nap time, and Hello... meeting!  

Supposedly make us feel better, there were three other people who had their luggage and joining the meeting right after arrival in Narita. I seriously needed a bath, and I felt very hot. It's in the beginning of summer, and the room didn't have A/C (don't you get cranky when it's hot?)

I had more or less no idea of the technical meeting (I was first registered to this meeting, but then advised not to join), but then joining. Konyol banget. Anyhow it's nice to see some familiar faces. The group was small, but has similarities and bonding, which somehow amazed me, an outsider.

It rained that day. The campus was on a hilly ground, covered with green grass with many trees. The air felt fresh on that ground. The classes were on modern building, simple and clean. The meeting was held in auditorium on the basement - explained why cellphones weren't receiving any signal down there. 

When we had our lunch break, my friend took me to the senkyo (student co-op) to buy things needed. Introductions included the brand of the 'official tea' of Japan (he he). I bought a new umbrella - didn't bring one from home, and some deodorant (oh I still craved the bath).

There were plans to escape the campus and find our way to the hotel, but since the check-in time itself is 15:00, we would be stranded there, so why not stranded here :p Ate our bento and met more people who normally I just talked to on messenger. I should say the hosts were all very welcome.

We had a tour of the server room (typical geeky tour), the messy laboratory (totally understandable), and head back to meeting. After the meeting finished, we were lucky enough to have a bus to drive us, so we and our luggage can FINALLY go to the hotel.

For some of the participants, it's their second or third or more time in the university. And for some people, they had arrived since a couple days ago. So tonight there were plans to go out. I would be the first one to sign up! 

My friend also offered for a walk after his other meeting. Well, can't complaint, at least that would give me time to take a shower and rest.

The hotel was located in an awkward alley near Shonandai Station. The bus couldn't reach this narrow street, so we had to bring our luggage by foot. I got the room on 14th floor. And we said we will contact each other for dinner. 

We had dinner in the Italian restaurant, quite popular among students, named Caesarian. The food was okay, though I couldn't finish the huge portion of spaghetti I ordered. The price was not bad, around 600 yen per meal.

Walking in Rainy Yokohama 

 

Yokohama (横浜市 Yokohama-shi) is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.

Yokohama's population of 3.6 million makes it Japan's largest incorporated city and second most populous urban area after Tokyo (during nighttime - Yokohama ranks 3rd in daytime population, after Osaka). 

From Wikipedia Yokohama

 

To go to Yokohama from Shonan, we need to go to Shonandai station, take the Sotetsu Line to Yokohama. And there were shops along the streets of entertainment area of Yokohama. One of the shop that I visited twice was the Don Quixote ( I wonder if the store has Spanish origin or something). It's such a bargain shop, not as cheap as the 100 yen shop but carried a variety of goods (my friend said original). I bought an electric tooth brush with refills for my son and a pink earphone for me.

The Takoyaki franchise

I don't fancy the thought of eating an octopus with its purplish tentacles popping out, but given a hot takoyaki (with the octopus well hidden inside the ball of fried flour) was quite tempting, especially because I wanted to experience everything Japanese in its own place. The tips of eating takoyaki : be careful because they are really hot, so better chopped them into two or three pieces and let it cool down a bit.

Rain fell on our way back to Shonan. Too bad I didn't get to see the whole Yokohama, which I read contains quite a bit of mixture of western and Japanese culture. Probably that just meant that I have to come back.

All over the world - in Europe, Asia*, Americas, Africa and Australia, airlines are struggling against rising fuel costs, trying to find opportunities to cut costs and make more money. But there is one region where fuel is not a concern and money is not an issue, the middle east. Airlines in middle east - Etihad, Qatar Airways, FlyDubai (startup airline by Emirates starting in 2009) and Emirates seem to be dropping billions to buy newer and bigger jets as seen at the Farnborough International Air Show.

The buy list for Etihad Airlines (orders worth $43 billion)

• 20 Airbus A320
• 25 Airbus A350 (with options)
• 10 Airbus 380 (options of 10 more)
• 35 Boeing 787 Dreamliners
• 10 Boeing 777

The buy list for FlyDubai (worth $3.78 billion)

• 54 Boeing 737-800

Though it does raise questions in minds, does these orders have a strategic value or are just crazy ambitions of these fast growing airlines? Does it really make sense?

From Business Week -

"Money is clearly no object for these guys. But where exactly are they
heading? You had to wonder when FlyDubai’s top managers, in response to
questions at a Farnborough press conference, said they didn’t know yet
what destinations they would serve or how their $4 billion aircraft
order would be financed. “We are developing plans,” FlyDubai Chief
Executive Ghaith al Ghaith said"
"Etihad’s goals are a bit clearer. As flag carrier for the United Arab
Emirates, it wants to create a global airline hub in Abu Dhabi to
jump-start growth and tourism there – just as neighboring Dubai has
done with its own airline Emirates. But can the region really support
two hubs less than 100 miles apart?"

EADS chief executive Louis Gallois told the BBC that the rising oil price is pushing airlines towards buying new, more efficient aeroplanes.

"We have the most energy-efficient aeroplane in the world, the A380, the aeroplane of the future," he said.

This demonstrates how even in a difficult business environment, there is potential for some businesses to prosper and improve sales.

Photo source.

No es la primera vez que la aerolínea de bandera de Abu Dabi hace un encargo del Superjumbo, el avión comercial más grande del mundo (555 pasajeros en su versión estándar), pues ya había comprado cuatro. Los 55 aviones se entregarán entre 2011 y 2020, lo que elevará la flota de Etihad a más de 150 aeronaves.

Fuente y Fotografía: elpais.es

If you're last name is Gates or your first name is Sultan then you can get a fancy suite while the rest of us hate you.

For everyone without all the money the best suggestion I can give you is this. Top Deck, right at the back, window seats. You will not regret it. Tons of space, really quiet.

The article raises questions about the viability of 15-18 hour flights in an era of $130bbl or more oil. In turn, this raises questions about the business models for the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, which tout hub-busting 8,000nm ranges. The article suggests that shorter route segments make more sense.

The article is silent about the economics of the 8,000nm range A380 and its ability to carry more than 500 passengers, supplying the revenue for the super long-haul route.

Boeing's Randy Tinseth, VP-marketing, comments in the article, arguing that the hub bypass remains an economic advantage. All-in-all, the piece makes for interesting reading.