Saturday, July 28, 2012

Plane Names

Have you ever noticed that a number of airlines make it a habit to "name" their planes. Maybe it's all airlines, but I'm not sure.

Nevertheless I know KLM does and it's always fun finding out which famous personality/city/place (usually the names) you are going to fly in.

During my European trips I have flown in Florence Nightingale a few time and yesterday it was in a plane named Audrey Hepburn. Too exciting for a cinephile like me.

A little research tells me that all of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes in KLMs fleet are named after female pioneers from different fields of life. As it happens these are the planes used on my flight routes.

Unfortunately I do not have a photographs of the planes, but hopefully it is a nice little collection I can start by taking and documenting the trip with the plane I took, recognized by "her" name.

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  1. SudhageeJuly 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM

    That might be the start of a nice new series. Looking forward to seeing the photoposts. If I am not mistaken, I believe that Air India used to name its planes too at one point of time.

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  2. RaghavJuly 29, 2012 at 5:06 AM

    Thanks. Since i've finally upgraded to a camera phone I can start taking the photos from my next trip :-)

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  3. PanchaliJuly 30, 2012 at 5:58 PM

    Hey, this is interesting...I was not aware of this...
    Air India used to be Maharaja--well, that' s a Male one!..
    Very interesting...

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    1. RaghavJuly 30, 2012 at 6:04 PM

      I think Maharaja was their mascot... Maybe they named a plane that too... But KLM names them all differently.

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  4. Khalid NawazMay 11, 2014 at 12:10 PM

    Sounds interesting. It takes out all the fun if you name your Planes after politicians. Rajiv Gandhi Airbus 320 for example. That is what happens with Indian nomenclature generally.

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  7. michaelSeptember 12, 2014 at 8:19 AM

    My favorite plane name is the Lufthansa Airbus A320-200 called Schwäbisch Gmünd. It replaces an earlier Boeing 737 with the same name that was scrapped in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 2012. Here's a picture of the new Airbus: http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/photo.show?id=497299 Here's one of the old Boeing: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasbecker/4428397607/in/photostream/

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