The Lawspeaker
04-14-2012, 09:07 PM
What is your favourite commercial aircraft ? Well eventhough I think we Dutch should fly Fokker (which no longer exists) I don't think I ever had the chance of actually having been inside a Fokker aircraft and inside Europe I have used the Embraer-190 (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_190/195).
My favourites though are both American-made which have left their mark on (an overall rather impressive) Dutch aviation history.
The L-1049G Super Constellation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_1049E_Super_Constellation) which served KLM Royal Dutch Airlines from 1946 to 1960 and which was frequently in old KLM advertisements:
http://eu.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/7/4/0479479.jpg
And the absolute King of the Hill when it comes to commercial aviation: the Boeing 747 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#747-200) which in, it's various incarnations (since 1970) has become a household image for many people in this country when it comes to flying to a far-away holiday destination (or even the Canaries - which is a very popular tourist destination for many of my countrymen):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Boeing_747-400_KLM.jpg
^As a matter of fact I will be climbing aboard this one, or aboards of it's sisters, within a couple of days.
My favourites though are both American-made which have left their mark on (an overall rather impressive) Dutch aviation history.
The L-1049G Super Constellation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_1049E_Super_Constellation) which served KLM Royal Dutch Airlines from 1946 to 1960 and which was frequently in old KLM advertisements:
http://eu.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/7/4/0479479.jpg
And the absolute King of the Hill when it comes to commercial aviation: the Boeing 747 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#747-200) which in, it's various incarnations (since 1970) has become a household image for many people in this country when it comes to flying to a far-away holiday destination (or even the Canaries - which is a very popular tourist destination for many of my countrymen):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Boeing_747-400_KLM.jpg
^As a matter of fact I will be climbing aboard this one, or aboards of it's sisters, within a couple of days.