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I have had the very good fortune to fly from Sydney to
Singapore aboard one of Singapore
Airline’s new
Airbus A380 jets. As I waited in the departure lounge
I managed to
capture a couple of photographs as it landed. I used digital
zoom so the images are not that clear.
After that I took some photographs of the A380 as it was
divested of its pasengers and cargo. The sun was streaming
in from behind the subject. The glass was double layered.
I was intrigued by the shape of the wings and the profile
of the fuselage.
The inflight entertainment system is excellent. There
are hundreds of movies and television shows on demand.
Countless music tracks. You can even create your own
playlist. In addition to that there were news-feeds from
AAP, language lessons, business lessons and a built in
OS that allowed you to create a word processing document,
spreadsheets and the like.
The controller sat in a recess beneath the extra large
video screen. It was not located in the arm rest. The controller
also acted as the keyboard and mouse. On top of all this
you could save your work to your thumb drive courtesy of
the USB port. There was also a video jack and a network
port that was probably Ethernet.
The final two photographs were taken on the apron adjacent
to the new Terminal Three
at Singapore's Changi Airport prior to my flight home in April 2008.
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