Posted on 11/29/2006 1:27:25 PM PST by skeptoid
"VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Steven Halinen was supposed to be in college Wednesday, but instead he abandoned his classes to watch what will soon be the world's biggest commercial jetliner make a quick stop at the Vancouver International Airport.
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The stop in Vancouver was the plane's first visit to an international airport in North America.
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But don't expect to see the A380 at Sea-Tac Airport anytime soon. .......
. .......the airport does not intend to spend the millions of dollars that would be required before the A380 could operate in regular airline service from gates at Sea-Tac, an airport spokesman said."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
I'm a long way from Vancouver, but I thought I felt the ground rumble.
Sounds like a lot of these gawkers are expecting it to crash, and want to be able to say that they saw it happen.
Yeah, but it's too heavy to takeoff again. They're turning it into a restaurant.
"A380 land in Vancouver"
How much of it made it to Vancouver?
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