Saying Goodbye to the Passenger DC-10 – Pleasure Flights with Biman Bangladesh BG8 Birmingham Airport Circular flight Contents: Thursday 6:40am: The Mailbox, Central Birmingham BG8 Birmingham Airport to Birmingham Airport One less three-holer in the sky So, a day out on a quite rare plane now. From the 446 aircraft built, less than 67 are now in active … [Read more...]
Saying Goodbye to the Passenger DC-10 – Pleasure Flights with Biman Bangladesh – BG8
Saying Goodbye to the Passenger DC-10 – Pleasure Flights with Biman Bangladesh BG8 Birmingham Airport Circular flight Contents: Thursday 6:40am: The Mailbox, Central Birmingham BG8 Birmingham Airport to Birmingham Airport One less three-holer in the sky. The Photos: Meeting the Biman DC-10 on one of its last flights (1) Meeting the Biman DC-10 … [Read more...]
Saying Goodbye to the Passenger DC-10 – Pleasure Flights with Biman Bangladesh
Saying Goodbye to the Passenger DC-10 - Pleasure Flights with Biman Bangladesh Contents: Thursday 6:40am: The Mailbox, Central Birmingham BG8 Birmingham Airport to Birmingham Airport One less three-holer in the sky. Welcome to a completely non-scheduled trip report. And I mean I didn't know I was going to be doing this until 3 days before this flight was due … [Read more...]
Airplane Art – Biman Bangladesh DC-10-30
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week - well what else could it be - it's a Biman Bangladesh Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 parked up at Birmingham Airport after completing the 6th of 9 leisure flights. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More … [Read more...]
Safety Video Saturday – Hawaiian Airlines DC-10
It's Saturday again, so it's time to place your seat in the upright position, place luggage in the bin and turn back time to the 80s as its time for Safety Video Saturday. This week, and continuing the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 commercial passenger retirement theme, it's Hawaiian Airlines with their DC-10 safety video. Another video next week, and more DC-10 coverage … [Read more...]
What am I up to this weekend?
Well, I was going to be spending most of it in bed. It's the weekend after all (that and a 4am start to do Radio WM was pretty exhausting!) Instead on Sunday, I'll be in the air... no guesses aboard what though... Look out for Saying Goodbye to the passenger DC-10 with Biman Bangladesh I'm planning to do as much coverage live through my Twitter stream pre and post … [Read more...]
The Last Scheduled Commercial DC-10 flight
Welcome BBC WM 95.6 Listeners - and to all the regular readers at GhettoIFE.com. This is an expansion of the interview I gave this morning on BBC WM, and adds more details to the mix. Today, Flight Biman Bangladesh flight BG1015 has begun its journey from Dhaka to Kuwait and finally to Birmingham UK, and in doing so is closing a chapter in aviation history as the use of … [Read more...]
Biman Bangladesh targets final DC-10 operations and celebratory tours
More news on Biman Bangladesh's final DC-10 operations, as it prepares to withdraw the final scheduled service of this class of aircraft. Before it wings off to retirement, it will have more flights to do. As well as covering flights to Kuwait, it will also be flying to Hong Kong on Tuesdays: BG078 DEPART DAC 13:00 ARRIVE HKG 19:00 BG079 DEPART HKG 20:30 ARRIVE DAC … [Read more...]
Biman DC-10s…. Still flying for a bit longer..
The Biman DC-10s were meant to have stopped flying, and fallen back to reserve flights... but it seems there's a lot of life yet. Firstly, the DC10 will be flying between Dhaka and Hong Kong every Tuesday until 14th January BG078 DEPART DAC 13:00 ARRIVE HKG 1900HKG D10 2 BG079 DEPART HKG 20:30 ARRIVE DAC 2230DAC D10 2 Booked Equipment: McDonald Douglas DC10 Operates … [Read more...]
Biman Bangladesh to withdraw DC-10, with a special send off
Hand up who has flown a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in their time? Well there is one carrier left operating them on a scheduled carrier basis, and that's Biman Bangladesh Airlines. For aviation geeks (and yes, yours truly can be amongst their ranks), Biman are preparing a send off for their DC-10s as they are due to retire them shortly The first of their DC-10s was retired on … [Read more...]
