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The US incident involved a Continental 737, which was supposed to land in Corpus Christi, Texas, but landed on a nearby military airfield.
The Brussels incident jan-olieslagers is referring to, involved a Northwest DC-10.

The very first specially dedicated presidiential plane was, if i'm not mistaken, used by pres. Truman.
Didn't pres. Kennedy fly in a 707 ? (He certainly was when arriving in Dallas on that notorious november day in 1963).

I don't know if i want this seat alone in the middle of everyone! It's weird!

I remember flying USAir bizzclass in the eraly nineties, when they had a single midle seat up front their767's. They were the best one could get i.m.h.o.

Only reason why AA bought the MD-80......they got 3 MD-80's for the price of one 737 in the 1980's I heard that AA even got to try out some MD80's for free during a few months. The McDonnel-Douglas sales dept. was actually that desperate to sell some of their sleek super-80s.... Anyway, AA manageme...

This is real sad news. i always thought the DC & MD-jets were the most elegant around (exception made for the DC-10)

The visitor centre is not a good place for taking pictures. Planes are too far away. Registrations can be logged, with a good set of binoculars.
If it's pictures that you want, it's better to find a spot near the Hatton Cross tube-station (last stop before Heathrow).

I'm not 100% sure of this, but i think SN used to fly a triangular route within Europe in the early nineties: Brussels-Milan-Barcelona-Brussels. Of course they've always flown some triangular routes in Africa.

One of the most obvious differences is the engines. The engine nacelles on the-300; -400; -500 series are a lot flatter on the bottom than the nacelles of the NG series. (When you see them from the front, the nacelles on the 'classics' are almost triangular in shape. The ones on the NG are much more...

I think the change of livery Tintinaucongo is refering to, was introduced on october 20th 1989. It proved indeed too radical a change to some, so Air India returned to its classic livery...

Hapy 4th and let's hope many years are still to come

May be this is just the first change in a gradual process, aimed at changing the complete livery. After all, AI tried to change its livery in a radical way during the late eighties, but had to revert to its 'old' livery amidst an outcry of public protest. Maybe they're adopting a more stealthy appro...

The car ferry has been discontinued, but there is still a ferry for foot & bike passengers

If you're living in 'Oost-' or 'West-Vlaanderen' the easiest and cheapest way to get the Schiphol is by taking the boat at Breskens and then the train at Vlissingen (Flushing). There is plenty of free parking space at the Breskens ferry terminal and the ferry and train schedules are nicely tuned. Yo...

Nothing beats the old CP colors !
This brings back many memeories....

Sorry, Advisor, i didn't make any pictures in Gent.
There is an excellent book on the Air world expo (and on design in avaitaion in general) though. It is apropriately called 'Air World' and is published by the Vitra Design Museum.

I hope it is of the same quality as the exposiiton in the design museum in Ghent last spring. i'm definitely going to visit it one of the coming days

the old orange CPAir livery beats anything around these days...

Looks like i'll have to be carefull (nothing new there....)
thanx for the info... I'll keep you informed about that spot next to runway 12 (That is, if i can find time inbetween meetings to do some spotting).

I'm flying to Bologna next week. I hope to find some time to do some spotting. Any clues on good sites at BLQ ?

1/ Frankfurt
2/ Heathrow
3/ Amsterdam
4/ Gatwick
5/ Madrid